foundations of engineering design I

Class 8 – Sep 13

Product Archaeology Introduction

today’s plan

•comments on Olympic cauldron•submit competency assignments•IRB letters•sit with your new teams•warm up brainstorming activities•examining and categorizing•systems thinking•assignments & announcements

engineering

our daily lives

let’s pretend we’re stranded on a desert island

as an engineer, you are a problem solver

what are the things you would first design/make to help you survive?

one of your fellow castaways is a dentist

dental hygiene ranks atop her list of “must-haves”

what on the island could you use to take care of your

teeth and gums?

reporting out

share your team’s best idea and wackiest idea for the dental-hygiene related question

follow-up discussion

•are there locations/cultures for which some of your suggestions are reality?

•what did we do before the tools we use today were available?

reminder…

engineering is all around usembedded in many products we use everyday is a set of cultural norms that influence why they were made the way they are

Sparky Dental Industries (SDI)

SDI Wants Us To…

• engage in a process to analyze what we use for dental hygiene

•How much does it cost?•How are the “tools” made?•What are they made out of?•Why was it made that way?

Let’s get started…

get out your toothbrushes

in your teams

describe your toothbrushes (what are they made of? how many bristles to they have? etc.)

what are the differences between them (functionally, aesthetically, etc.)?

if your toothbrush is still in packaging, think about that part too.

reporting out

share highlights from your teams findings

categorizing

what are some groupings of toothbrushes we have in class?

work together to move the toothbrushes around and into their groups

engineers solve problems in multiple ways! develop a new set of groupings and move toothbrushes into those groups. how would you describe the new collections?

some paperwork items

1. consent forms2. competency assignment #1 is

coming back now•grades on blackboard•what do those letters on top mean?

•what are competency points?

engineers are systems thinkers

we’ve talked about the toothbrushes

is there more to the dental health industry than just that?

in your teams, map out all the stakeholders in the dental hygiene industry

how do they relate to each other?

assignmentsCompetency AssignmentCA 4: Prototype (9/18) now posted on blackboard under assignments competency assignments

Practice AssignmentsPA 7: Document your own process (9/18)PA 8: Read / comment on an article (9/20)now posted on blackboard under assignments practice assignments

don’t forget:follow instructions, submit work on time, type responses, put your name

final request

if you have one, please bring your laptop to class with you on Tuesday!