Engineering Design Process

1. Define Problem: What problem are you trying to solve?

2. Identify Constraints: limits or restricts someone or something. Examples are budget, material, terrain or space

3. Plan/Research/Design: Try to find the best possible outcome. Has another person tried to solve this problem before? Make a drawing of your model or idea

4. Create Prototype: Create your design or idea

5. Test Prototype / Gather Data: See if your design works. Gather any data needed to improve your prototype.

6. Improve/Iterate: which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result. Do you need to fix anything about your prototype?

7. Communicate findings/Solution: Demonstrate a solution, or final project.

Engineering Design Process Instructions/Rubric

Click on the image below and watch the following Video of an Off-road Wheelchair Design and answer questions in the following google document by describing what the engineer did at each stage of the engineering design process.

The cheap all-terrain wheelchairHow do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an all-terrain wheelchair that's cheap and easy to build -- for true accessibility -- and gives us some lessons he learned along the road.

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