Project 3 – Outreach Activity for Engineering Education

Problem Statement

This is our final project! We are to design and build an activity that someone could take into an elementary or junior high school classroom to teach the students something about engineering.

The activity should:

engage the students in an engineering activity,

teach them something about what engineers do,

appeal to all types of children (not just competitive children who like to blow things up),

engage about 30 children simultaneously,

be safe, durable, and suitable for an indoor classroom,

employ principles of universal design, and

be transportable in a compact car.

Our two primary clients:

The faculty members who do outreach activities, and

The children in the classrooms

Our secondary clients:

The teachers in the schools - who like to have help with science and engineering activities for their students, but who would like their classrooms to be left in reasonable order and would like their students to be enthusiastic, but not hyper, when the activity is over.

Our tertiary clients:

The various engineering fields, represented by the engineering societies, that would like to educate the general public about engineering and to interest children in engineering as a potential profession.

Requirement:

The activity must has at least one part made on one of the rapid manufacturing technologies we have studied.

Budget:

Each team has a budget of $100.

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Activity Program

Has our activity meet the requirement?