Goal: What do you want students to know or be able to do after the lesson?
Understand and utilize the Engineering Design Cycle
Upon completion of this lecture the student will be able to:
Define Engineering and specifically, Mechanical Engineering.
Explain what the Engineering Design Cycle is.
Recognize & Identify the steps of the Engineering Design Cycle.
PA Standards Addressed:
Standard - 3.4.10.A2: Interpret how systems thinking applies logic and creativity with appropriate complicated real-life problems.
Standard - 3.4.10.B4: Recognize that technological development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to a basic invention.
Standard - 3.4.10.C2: Analyze a prototype and/or create a working model to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.
Next Generation Science Standards Addressed:
HS-ESS3-2 Earth and Human Activity: Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.*
HS-ETS1-3 Engineering Design: Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
*Note: This module is meant to be more like a mini-lesson that provides the foundation to participate in every other module.
Lesson plans were created using the Direct-Active Learning model.
Presentations were created in PowerPoint and may have altered text and picture locations in previews.