Step #1- Identify criteria & constraints
-Sucess 25% - Your device must have a way for the egg
-Design 25% to be put in on the day of the drop.
-Construction 25% - Must land on concrete for drop to count
-Conference 25% – Egg must be raw
– Device must not hit any cars or the
building
– Must have a way to raise it up to the roof
– Must be no bigger than 1m cubed
All this information was given to us during class. The reason why we needed to know all of that was because we were identifying the constraints and criteria which is the first step in the design process.
The second step to the design process is research. My partner and i didnt do any research on the internet or in books. The only thing that would maybe count as research would be Mr. Rice showing us egg drop devices from other years.
My partner, or well my Aldair, and I brainstormed many ideas. Nothing set in stone, just ideas that thought may possibly work. We built of off ideas adding stuff from one idea to the other.
The 4th thing we did was we choose the best solution. After we were finished brainstorming we choose the idea that we most liked and that we thought would work.
We took the idea that we choose as the best solution and made a model of it.
We had several weeks to work on building our actual model for the egg drop. On September 30, 2009 we tested our model to see if it would work and protect our egg from cracking.
The last step to the design process is redesigning. We’re not going to redesign but if we were we would take leave out parts. Our device i believe did not need the wings because although it decreased the acceleration of our device, the boxes it had absorbed the shock of the impact. I think that even if our device was going faster, our egg still would of been safe.
The reason that I think our device was succesful was because it was well protected in the boxes we made out of straws and balsa wood. The boxes our egg was in, were meant to absorb the force of the impact when the device hit the ground. Also the wings that we had on our device decreased acceleration so it had a slower velocity going towards the shock of the impact which would be the ground.
Our device i think was most similars to Ben’s. The reason that I think this is because we had the same kind of wing idea at the top to decrease our acceleration. Also where the egg went in to, was the same type of box made of balsa wood so the shock of impact could go there and not on our egg .
I think our device was fine how we had it and did not really need to be improved in any certain way. Something we could have of done was not of have wasted so many materials and also we could have of have made it smaller. I think it didnt really need any improvment because our egg survived and it was very well protected.
