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Ideas from participants
Ideas from participants
- Impulse – minimize damage to vehicles or people. Design an aftermarket bumper, to look like the factory one, cost / materials /mass constraint
- Egg drop – students design a cell phone cover to protect cell phone from breaking when it drops (using concept of impulse). Must fit in pocket, etc. (Alt: weight cover, or students choose an item that they want to protect when it’s dropped.) Egg is used to test prototype.
- Waves, E & M – build a speaker, test different materials, inputs, shapes, wires.
- Engineer a hearing aid for a human ear (small sound amplifier)
- Design a shipping vessel to optimize transport in salt or freshwater (shape, loading, etc.)
- Design a shipping container to have the optimal coefficient of friction to keep packages from sliding off the ship when it listed from side to side.
Resources for Participants
Resources for Participants
How The Activity Became Engineerized:
- Electricity Lab --> Electric Art Project
- Alka-Seltzer Labs --> Alka-Seltzer Engineering Project
- More Examples of Physics Labs Transformed into Engineering Activities (with discussion prompts).
Building Projects From Your Existing Curriculum:
- Use the worksheet: Finding the Low Hanging Fruit to start identifying areas or activities that are ripe for 'engineerizing' within your curriculum.
- Engineering Project Planning template (for those ready to dive into the specifics of planning a project!)
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