Overview
Students will:
Investigate the role of renewable energy solutions for doing work
Create scientific experiments for prototype testing to measure iterative progress
Document and communicate all stages of the engineering process during the development cycle of a product
Standards Addressed in This Unit
Fundamentals of Engineering and Technology I: Engineering Concepts
ENGR-EC2: Students will demonstrate the engineering design process
ENGR-EC3: Students will solve problems using basic engineering tools and resources
ENGR-EC4: Students will demonstrate a whole systems approach to engineering and problem solving
ENGR-EC5: Students will apply engineering graphics and technical writing to communication of an engineering design
Cross-Curricular Connections
Physics
SP1: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the relationship between distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration as functions of time
SP2: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how forces affect the motion of objects
SP3: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the importance of conservation laws for mechanical energy and linear momentum in predicting the behavior of physical systems