2) Solutions:
- Don't ride a bike
- Hook
- Mechanical wall ride
3) Criteria: Bike Storage, Easy to Assemble
Constraints: No permanent damage
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Deep Dive
1. “From the buildings in which we live and work, to the cars we drive, or the knives and forks with which we eat, everything we use was designed to create some sort of marriage between ____form_____________ and ____function_____________.”
2. The folks at IDEO state that they are not experts in any given area. But, they do claim to be experts on the _________process of how you design things ___________, which they apply to the innovation of consumer products.
3. After the team of designers is brought together, told the problem, and informed they have five days to “pull it off,” what phase of the design process do they immediately engage in?
Brain storm and good ideas
4. Give two examples of what the team members did during this phase.
a. Team work
b. Brainstorm
5. List five rules-of-thumb that IDEO employees follow when they share ideas during the brainstorming phase:
a. One conversation at a time
b. defer judgment
c. No criticism
d. Building on others ideas
e. Stay on topic
6. Why should wild (and sometimes crazy) ideas be entertained during the brainstorming phase?
because they could come up with that one great idea or they could build on other team members ideas
7. After the brainstorming phase was over, the team narrowed down the hundreds of ideas by ___voting__________ for those ideas that were not only “cool” but also _____build able____________ in a short period of time. What phase of the design process is this called?
Enlighten Trial and Error
8. IDEO believes that the ideas and efforts of a ____Team__________ will always be more successful than the planning of a lone genius.
9. Once the ideas were narrowed down and divided into categories, the group was split into four smaller teams. What phase(s) of the design process was each of these groups responsible for?
Shopping
Safety
Check out
Finding stuff you need
10. The leaders at IDEO believe that ______Playful______ behavior and a _Fun environment are two important reasons why their employees are able to think quickly and creatively to produce innovative results.
11. Sometimes, people come up with great solutions that work by trying their ideas first, and asking for _____Opinion____________ later.
12. Design is often a process of going too far and having to take a few steps back. What phase of the design process would the critique of the four mock-ups come under?
refinding and communicating there results
13. Upon critique of the four teams’ models, it was obvious that none of the teams had developed an optimum solution. However, the people at IDEO believe that it is important to fail often in order to _____succeed________ sooner.
14. What percentage of the entire week’s time did it take to fabricate the final prototype?
20% one day
15. Instead of showering his design team with a tremendous amount of praise, what did the boss require his employees to do with their new design?
Improve on there design
16. Of all the things that we are surrounded by every day, what has not been placed through the design process?
Human Body
Nature
Conclusion
1. What did you find to be the most impressive part of the team’s effort?
There commitment to the team
there commitment to the project
there overall final product
2. What advantages are there to having a design team with members that have non-engineering backgrounds?
Crazier ideas
better enviorment
3. There was a point in the process where a self-appointed group of adults stepped up, stopped the ideas, and redirected the group to break up into teams. Why was this done?
to set the team back on course if they hadn't the team wouldn't meet the deadline or they would have rushed the project and done something wrong
4. At the end of the video, Dave Kelly states, “Look around. The only things that are not designed are the things we find in nature.” Can you think of anything that would contradict this statement?
plant fertilizer
2. The folks at IDEO state that they are not experts in any given area. But, they do claim to be experts on the _________process of how you design things ___________, which they apply to the innovation of consumer products.
3. After the team of designers is brought together, told the problem, and informed they have five days to “pull it off,” what phase of the design process do they immediately engage in?
Brain storm and good ideas
4. Give two examples of what the team members did during this phase.
a. Team work
b. Brainstorm
5. List five rules-of-thumb that IDEO employees follow when they share ideas during the brainstorming phase:
a. One conversation at a time
b. defer judgment
c. No criticism
d. Building on others ideas
e. Stay on topic
6. Why should wild (and sometimes crazy) ideas be entertained during the brainstorming phase?
because they could come up with that one great idea or they could build on other team members ideas
7. After the brainstorming phase was over, the team narrowed down the hundreds of ideas by ___voting__________ for those ideas that were not only “cool” but also _____build able____________ in a short period of time. What phase of the design process is this called?
Enlighten Trial and Error
8. IDEO believes that the ideas and efforts of a ____Team__________ will always be more successful than the planning of a lone genius.
9. Once the ideas were narrowed down and divided into categories, the group was split into four smaller teams. What phase(s) of the design process was each of these groups responsible for?
Shopping
Safety
Check out
Finding stuff you need
10. The leaders at IDEO believe that ______Playful______ behavior and a _Fun environment are two important reasons why their employees are able to think quickly and creatively to produce innovative results.
11. Sometimes, people come up with great solutions that work by trying their ideas first, and asking for _____Opinion____________ later.
12. Design is often a process of going too far and having to take a few steps back. What phase of the design process would the critique of the four mock-ups come under?
refinding and communicating there results
13. Upon critique of the four teams’ models, it was obvious that none of the teams had developed an optimum solution. However, the people at IDEO believe that it is important to fail often in order to _____succeed________ sooner.
14. What percentage of the entire week’s time did it take to fabricate the final prototype?
20% one day
15. Instead of showering his design team with a tremendous amount of praise, what did the boss require his employees to do with their new design?
Improve on there design
16. Of all the things that we are surrounded by every day, what has not been placed through the design process?
Human Body
Nature
Conclusion
1. What did you find to be the most impressive part of the team’s effort?
There commitment to the team
there commitment to the project
there overall final product
2. What advantages are there to having a design team with members that have non-engineering backgrounds?
Crazier ideas
better enviorment
3. There was a point in the process where a self-appointed group of adults stepped up, stopped the ideas, and redirected the group to break up into teams. Why was this done?
to set the team back on course if they hadn't the team wouldn't meet the deadline or they would have rushed the project and done something wrong
4. At the end of the video, Dave Kelly states, “Look around. The only things that are not designed are the things we find in nature.” Can you think of anything that would contradict this statement?
plant fertilizer
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- The challenge was to build a glider that would fly for a long distance and have a good hangtime.
Rules of Brainstorming:
- To come up with as many ideas as you can.
Constraints:
- Build with Balsa wood and tissue paper.
- Limited amounts of it.
- 2 day time limit
The goals for our glider was to fly itt fort a long distance and have a decent hang time.
Our glider performed better than we thought it would. I would change the way we made it next time and make it lighter.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Egg Drop Challenge
Total # of achievements earned: 17
-Your materials fit inside a shoe box.
-Your materials fit inside a cigar box.
-Your materials fit inside an Altoids box.
We used 3 balloons, 3 marbles, and a string.
-Your materials weigh less than 500 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 300 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 200 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 150 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 100 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 50 grams.
We weighed in at 106 grams with the egg.
-You hit the butcher paper!
-You hit inside the third ring!
-You hit inside the second ring!
-You hit inside the first ring!
-You hit the Bullseye!
We hit the designated area even with pretty strong wind.
-Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels.
-Generate a list of materials required for build day.
Some designs/strategies our class did well on was using balloons. Some groups put little barriers on their eggs so their egg would be protected. Terry and I decided to put our egg in a balloon that was inside another balloon to absorb the impact better. We would probably put more protection around our egg if we had to redesign it because our egg broke unfortunately.
Monday, March 14, 2011
TED
1) The TED organization is about spreading ideas.
2) The purpose of the website is to bring people from the 3 worlds together. The functionality of the website supports that because it shows ideas from all 3 of the worlds.
3) I think we would pick technology, entertainment, and design because as engineers, those would seem the most interesting to us.
4) One video that I would pick would be How I taught rate to sniff out land mines because as a problem solver, he solves how to detect land mines without the use of technology which is very interesting. I would also pick How I built a toaster from scratch because as a problem solver, if you needed a toaster, you could just make one. I would also choose the Rise of Personal Robots because as an engineer, creating the robot could help a lot of old people if you were trying to come up with something to help them with.
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6) I could get involved with this by studying animals and animals' behaviors in college.
2) The purpose of the website is to bring people from the 3 worlds together. The functionality of the website supports that because it shows ideas from all 3 of the worlds.
3) I think we would pick technology, entertainment, and design because as engineers, those would seem the most interesting to us.
4) One video that I would pick would be How I taught rate to sniff out land mines because as a problem solver, he solves how to detect land mines without the use of technology which is very interesting. I would also pick How I built a toaster from scratch because as a problem solver, if you needed a toaster, you could just make one. I would also choose the Rise of Personal Robots because as an engineer, creating the robot could help a lot of old people if you were trying to come up with something to help them with.
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6) I could get involved with this by studying animals and animals' behaviors in college.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Reverse Engineering: Functional Analysis
1)The purpose of these headphones is to block out sound and listen to music with good quality.
2)It operates because it amplifies sound and you do not have to use a speaker.
4) The wire coming up from the ipod is visible. Also, you can me mechanical components inside the headphones.
5) You can not identify how the sound gets to the headphones from the ipod.
2)It operates because it amplifies sound and you do not have to use a speaker.
4) The wire coming up from the ipod is visible. Also, you can me mechanical components inside the headphones.
5) You can not identify how the sound gets to the headphones from the ipod.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Reverse Engineering
Visual AnalysisFor the headphones, there is color because its black and red, balance because if you cut it in half its still reatins lines of symmetry, and form because it looks sleeck and nice.
Functional Analysis
The purpost of the product is to listen to music and block out other sounds. It has two earphones that cover ur entire ear so you can not hear anything else except the music.
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