Design Step 5
The main goal of this step was to create a design defense. This design defense is a presentation that proves how we followed the principles of engineering in our design process. Overall, it really allowed us to collect our thoughts and bring all of the separate pieces of the project into one cohesive unit. We also worked on 3D tutorials, circuit tutorials, our team website, and further research during this step. There weren't many assignments due at the end of this step, but the design defense was a very lengthy task that took a lot of teamwork and cooperation.
Design Defense Presentation
Instructions:
- Create Slides with voice over, that includes the “Defense” as explained on the page above DO NOT make a poster (yet)
- Make sure to include any media (videos, pictures, etc…) to clearly and impactfully showcase your product and its functionalities.
- Answer the following questions:
• Did the team adhere to the Engineering Design Process?
• How does the final concept work?
• What level of risk is associated with this design?
• Do the students appear to be teaming effectively?
- Follow these strategies:
- Create Slides with voice over, that includes the “Defense” as explained on the page above DO NOT make a poster (yet)
- Make sure to include any media (videos, pictures, etc…) to clearly and impactfully showcase your product and its functionalities.
- Answer the following questions:
• Did the team adhere to the Engineering Design Process?
• How does the final concept work?
• What level of risk is associated with this design?
• Do the students appear to be teaming effectively?
- Follow these strategies:
- First, the organization of the presentation should parallel the steps in the Engineering Design Process, as shown in Table 25.1. This is your way of saying that you followed a systematic approach.
- Second, you should try to get the "jury" to understand how your final concept works as quickly as possible. This frees up more time during questions for alleviating concerns about the design.
- Third, you should anticipate that the "jury" will ask questions about potential sources of risk and prepare evidence in advance to quell those concerns. This evidence should be in the form of high-quality detailed drawings, results of calculations and experiments, and preliminary models (different from prototypes); bring evidence of experiments and tests to show that you actually did it. The strategies that serve to reduce risk, and their counterparts that don’t, are summarized in Table 25.2.
The overall goal of the design defense was to convince the "jury" that our product is worth spending money on in order to manufacture the product. The design defense was done virtually, so we created a slides presentation and later added voiceovers of us presenting.
The slides presentation:
Along with the presentation, we created a video with voiceovers of us presenting our design defense, but the file is too large to put onto my website. This video caused minor issues due to the virtual circumstances we are in, and in order to record the length that we wanted to, we would've had to pay for extra software.
3D Modeling Tutorials
The first individual assignment that we worked on during this step was in Simscale, where we learned about the thermal analysis of a different casing. Below is an image of what we modeled in this assignment after following the directions.
Tinkercad Circuits
Another individual assignment that we worked on was Tinkercad Circuits. These tutorials help us to improve our skills in circuit building without needing to be in an actual science classroom. We learned about wiring components and adding components to circuits. Pictures of the tutorials are shown below.