Throughout the entirety of this course, students will learn how to properly document their progression during the Engineering Design Process in an engineering notebook. This document will be used when we design solutions for simple challenges like slowing the decent of a ping-pong ball, and bigger challenges like making a prosthesis for an individual in need.

The notebook is an industry standard that students will use in most other PLTW courses at Stevenson High School.

One of the main skills we hope to develop in Engineering Design is 3D Modeling. We use Inventor to create various parts, assemblies, animations, and more. Learning to 3D model makes engineers better at communicating their designs down the production line and allows engineers to prototype using 3D Printers  and Laser Cutters.

Not only do we design and build interesting things in Engineering Design, but we are constantly testing to make sure our designs are successful. We use Inventor to model catapults, manufacture our device with a laser, document the data of its throws in our Engineering Notebooks, and then make sense of that data using Google Sheets. The entire of the design process is replicated and performed in our Catapult project.