2016 - 2017 Engineering Design Projects
Product Innovation Challenge - Egg Crash Vehicles
Background:
The Product Innovation Challenge follows a proven hands-on, real-world problem-solving approach to learning. Students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a valid open-ended technical problem by applying the engineering design process. Students perform research to choose, validate, and justify a technical problem. After carefully defining the problem, teams design, build, and test their solutions while working closely with industry professionals who provide possible mentoring opportunities. Finally, student teams present and defend their original solution.
Design Challenge:
To design and construct a complete vehicle using a restraint system and safety features to protect an occupant from a head on collision and/or rollover accident while using the appropriate materials that will safely carry a driver (uncooked egg) over a given distance without causing injury (cracked egg) or death (broken egg) to the driver upon impact with a barricade (concrete block) or another vehicle.
The Product Innovation Challenge follows a proven hands-on, real-world problem-solving approach to learning. Students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a valid open-ended technical problem by applying the engineering design process. Students perform research to choose, validate, and justify a technical problem. After carefully defining the problem, teams design, build, and test their solutions while working closely with industry professionals who provide possible mentoring opportunities. Finally, student teams present and defend their original solution.
Design Challenge:
To design and construct a complete vehicle using a restraint system and safety features to protect an occupant from a head on collision and/or rollover accident while using the appropriate materials that will safely carry a driver (uncooked egg) over a given distance without causing injury (cracked egg) or death (broken egg) to the driver upon impact with a barricade (concrete block) or another vehicle.
Egg Crash Video - 1st Hour |
Egg Crash Video - 5th Hour |
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Video produced by: Austin Bouchard
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Video produced by: Dakota Design Tech
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Electric Race Vehicles
Background:
Everyone is trying to go green these days, and automakers are listening. Concerns about the environment and rising costs of fossil fuels are driving automakers to design and build cleaner, more energy efficient vehicles. Much of the focus is on electric vehicles (EVs).
Did you know the electric car was older than the gas-powered car? It is believed that the first electric car was invented between 1832 and 1839 by Scottish inventor Robert Anderson. The contraption was not more than a carriage with an electric motor and non-rechargeable batteries. In 1835, American inventor Thomas Davenport is credited with building the first practical electric vehicle, a small locomotive.
Design Challenge:
The student will design and fabricate a multi functional Electric Race Vehicle that will be able to travel down a track over a given distance, climb a hill, drag race or other specified events determined by the instructor.
Everyone is trying to go green these days, and automakers are listening. Concerns about the environment and rising costs of fossil fuels are driving automakers to design and build cleaner, more energy efficient vehicles. Much of the focus is on electric vehicles (EVs).
Did you know the electric car was older than the gas-powered car? It is believed that the first electric car was invented between 1832 and 1839 by Scottish inventor Robert Anderson. The contraption was not more than a carriage with an electric motor and non-rechargeable batteries. In 1835, American inventor Thomas Davenport is credited with building the first practical electric vehicle, a small locomotive.
Design Challenge:
The student will design and fabricate a multi functional Electric Race Vehicle that will be able to travel down a track over a given distance, climb a hill, drag race or other specified events determined by the instructor.
