Final Design Proposal (parts 1–2)

This Final Design Proposal handout can be used as a formative for pre-summative assessment readiness. As students work through the handout, check in with them and/or ask probing questions of students who might need additional assistance or guidance to gain some evidence or insight as to how ready students are for the assessment. Some examples of how to support students as they work through the different sections of this handout are included below:

Students should already have thought through this and have it recorded on Stakeholder Feedback Form. If a student is stuck here and not sure what to write, ask them to look back at this handout to find the problem they identified and their solution claims that were presented to stakeholders. They can simply transfer what they wrote there to this document, or they could summarize in new wording.

Students may become overly fixated on drawing a detailed example of their device. Remind students that they already have an example of their device drawn on Redesigning Your Protective Device that can be transferred over to this handout. If students have included a lot of design details on their original handout, ask them to just focus on the key features that investors would be interested in for the marketing of the device.

In this section students explain what components they are keeping in their design and what components they are not keeping in their designs based on feedback they received on Stakeholder Feedback Form and in their notebooks when they explained constraints and prioritizations around their design. If students simply need to see what they listed as primary, secondary, and tertiary, this is available on Decision Matrix. They should be able to use these three pieces of data to complete this section. Guide students to look back at these as they complete this section.

Say, Though you’ve got some great ideas for how to improve your designs for our consumers, how could you use this way of thinking to evaluate and test designs that other engineers come up with for any proposed collision mitigation design solution? You will now use what you have figured out about contact forces and designing solutions and apply it to a new phenomenon scenario. This will be your final assessment of our unit.