Teaching Students about the Engineering Design Process

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• Teaching Students about the Engineering Design
  Process

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Encourage Teamwork

• Critical Component
• Students and Engineers Design in Teams
• Many Careers Require Teamwork
• Team Work is an Essential Skill

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Projects about Making Life Better

• Clean Water
• Green Energy
• Low-Carbon Transportation Alternatives
• Advances in Medicine

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Celebrate Science and Engineering

• Current events in which engineers or scientists
  save lives, help the environment, or serve their
  communities.

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Reverse Engineer a Favorite Gadget

• Take apart devices to see how they were designed
• Imagine themselves as the designer, what could
  they do to make the design better?
• Student Interests in - medicine, robotics,
  architecture, music or sports - theres probably
  a gadget needed to do it.

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Make Math Real-World

• Math and Science are Important Tools
• Math and Science Changed Millions of Lives
• Math is one Tool in the Engineering Design Box
• Three years of High School Math Needed Engineer,
  Programmer, Accountant, Biologist, Medical
  Technician, Architect and Doctor

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Use Graphics to Represent Ideas

• Form of Communication often Overlooked
• Communication can get the Job Done or Not
• Enhance Communication Skills