First Day Project

Crash! Can Cellphones Survive a Drop Test?

 

The idea behind this project is to begin learning about the product development lifecycle.  During this project you will be required to keep documentation on the process, from design, to development, to production and testing.

 

You will be working with a partner, and during the course of the project you will be keeping an engineering notebook.  An engineering notebook will contain information much like a scientist keeps a notebook about their experiements and research.  Inside your engineering notebook you should have the following:

 

• Name of the people working on the project

• Title of the project

• Problem you are trying to solve

• Ideas of how you are going to solve that problem

• Sketches, drawings, or doodles that complement your ideas

• More defined sketches of ideas you are going to pursue

• Resources that you find useful along the way

• Any changes that you make to your solution along the way

• Testing results and the changes that result from that testing

• Detailed descriptions of work completed

• Any other bits of information you may want to include about your project

• Any questions that accompany the project

• Any questions you are left having after the project

• Pictures of the progress you are making are not required but are nice to have in any engineering notebook

 

The PDF file for the project is located on the Student Share Drive (Duffy/CAD I/Project Files), and materials are available at the front of the classroom.  At the end of the day, make sure you are cleaning up after yourself and putting away your project materials in the space provided.