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Wing Design Competition - 0 views

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    The Kentucky Wing Design Competition (KWDC) competition is sponsored by NASA Kentucky and is intended to provide an introduction to aircraft design. Student teams will design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of a wing to replace the stock Hobbico® NexSTAR™ wing. The goal of the competition is to design and build a high-performance wing, while demonstrating a balance between practical and affordable manufacturing techniques and good flight characteristics. The design objective is to produce a wing that, when mounted on the NexSTAR™ fuselage, has a high payload-to-wing-weight ratio and is efficient for high-speed flight.
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Tunnel Through! - Activity - www.TeachEngineering.org - 0 views

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    "Tunnel Through! Contributed by: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder Photo shows two men looking at metal prongs coming through the side of a mountain with a crumbling rock pile in front of them. Workers look at the TBM cutterhead after it reached daylight in April 1997, after a 2.5-year journey excavating through Yucca Mountain, NV. TBM is a tunnel boring machine. Students apply their knowledge about mountains and rocks to transportation engineering, with the task of developing a model mountain tunnel that simulates the principles behind real-life engineering design. Student teams design and create model tunnels through a clay mountain, working within design constraints and testing for success; the tunnels must meet specific design requirements and withstand a certain load. "
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Touchdown challenge - 0 views

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    Design and build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two "astronauts" when they land. In this challenge, kids follow the engineering design process to: (1) design and build a shock-absorbing system out of paper, straws, and mini-marshmallows; (2) attach their shock absorber to a cardboard platform; and (3) improve their design based on testing results."
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Sunglass About Us - 0 views

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    "3D has gone beyond portable. Sunglass brings design to the cloud, allowing you to virtually gather around your 3D assets with your design team, anywhere in the world, from your desktop, web, or mobile client. Sunglass gives you granular control so that you can securely and easily share sensitive designs on a need-to-know basis with coworkers, clients, and contractors. You can chat with your team in real time, and annotate directly on the models in a shared virtual space. Instant collaboration is as easy as sharing a link; people will receive specific access rights to the right version of your design, directly in their browser without having to download any software. Sunglass truly enables global collaboration, "
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Introduction to Aerospace Engineering and Design - 0 views

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    The fundamental concepts, and approaches of aerospace engineering, are highlighted through lectures on aeronautics, astronautics, and design. Active learning aerospace modules make use of information technology. Student teams are immersed in a hands-on, lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle design project, where they design, build, and fly radio-controlled LTA vehicles.
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The GE Show Episode : Designing an airplane - 0 views

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    "Designing an airplane isn't easy. You have to know aerodynamics, physics, and how to balance lift, drag, and engine fuel efficiency so that they all work together. No, designing an airplane isn't easy at all. Unless you have our little design application, then it's a walk in the park."
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The Engineering Design Process - www.TeachEngineering.org - 0 views

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    "The engineering design process is a series of steps that engineering teams use to guide them as they solve problems. Anyone can do it! To determine how to build something (skyscraper, amusement park ride, bicycle, music player), engineers gather information and conduct research to understand the needs of the challenge to be addressed. Then they brainstorm many imaginative possible solutions. They select the most promising idea and embark upon a design that includes drawings, and analytical decisions on the materials and construction, manufacturing and fabrication technologies to use. They create and test many prototypes, making improvements until the product design is good enough to meet their needs. "
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NASA - Engineering Design Process - 1 views

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    "Engineering Design Process The engineering design process involves a series of steps that lead to the development of a new product or system. In this design challenge, students are to complete each step and document their work as they develop their lunar plant growth chamber. The students should be able to do the following:"
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MIT TechTV - 2.007 - A Design for Success - 0 views

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    MIT 2007: A Design for Success - a 36 minute documentary about the famous mechanical engineering design contest follows the trials and tribulatoins of a group of students participants - from day one through the exciting 1998 contest Finals. "
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eGFI - For Teachers » Lesson: Design From Nature - 0 views

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    "how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They learn how careful observation of nature - in this case, reverse engineering a flower to glean design ideas - can lead to new innovations and products. "
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225 Aerodynamic Designs Lesson Plans Reviewed by Teachers - 0 views

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    225 Aerodynamic Designs Lesson Plans, 4 Aerodynamic Designs Worksheets
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Project-Based Inquiry Learning: Science Teaching & Learning for the 21st Century - 0 views

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    Develop your skills in designing and using project-based inquiry learning, or PBIL, to enhance conceptual understanding, critical thinking, scientific reasoning, and problem solving in standards-based classrooms. Experience and analyze two NASA-oriented PBIL projects firsthand; learn PBIL curriculum design strategies and methods; and design a PBIL unit for use in your classroom. Use e-PDN's suite of online tools to collaborate, connect and create with other course participants."
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Kick-off Team Building Exercise - 0 views

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    This team building exercise was inspired by the Marshmallow Challange, as seen on TED 2010 (www.marshmallowchallenge.com/Welcome.html). The game is designed to have kids quickly work together to model and prototype ideas, evaluate scoring strategies, determine design limitations, etc... It was intentionally designed to force students (and mentors, too!) to evaluate priorities and assumptions.
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Math is hard because the UI sucks. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. - areUXperie... - 0 views

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    Title: Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz Context: System complexity doesn't have to be "just the way it is". We are designers and it is our job to make things easier to use. That said, it takes a designer with huge balls to tackle a problem the size of math.
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DESIGN SQUAD . Leading Engineering Activities | PBS KIDS GO! - 0 views

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    "NASA and DESIGN SQUAD developed this online workshop for educators and afterschool leaders who want to build their skills and confidence in guiding kids through engineering activities. Whether you're experienced or new at this, you'll come away with insights and strategies for strengthening your kids' critical-thinking abilities and getting them excited about using the design process, the series of steps engineers use to arrive at solutions. "
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Design Challenge Lessons | The Tech Museum of Innovation - 0 views

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    "Design Challenge Lessons"
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Free Paper Airplane Designs-Printable Templates - 0 views

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    "Download any of the free paper airplane designs below and get flying!   Just print out the template onto standard 8.5" X 11" printer paper.  The fold and cut lines are clearly printed right onto the template, and each paper airplane design has easy-to-follow instructions.  Make sure to read the printing tips at the bottom of this page.  Also see the Flying Tips page for information about how to get the best performance out of your models.  "
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Roller Coaster Engineers lab/activity Scientific method Inquiry and Engineering - Poppa... - 0 views

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    "students will become "rollercoaster engineers" by designing a coaster out of pipe insulation tubing found at most home improvement stores. Through an iterative process they will test their coaster design with their "rider" a steel ball or marble. This is a great way to address the scientific method, inquiry, and current/upcoming engineering standards in science."
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Parachute Lab - Scientific Method, Experimental Design, and Engineering - Poppa - Teach... - 0 views

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    "PARACHUTE ENGINEERS!! In this lesson, your students will become parachute engineers. By using the principals of the scientific method and scientific inquiry they will design a parachute and make a modification to test a hypothesis."
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Sum It Up: An Introduction to Static Equilibrium - Activity - www.TeachEngineering.org - 0 views

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    "Students are introduced to static equilibrium by learning how forces and torques are balanced in a well-designed engineering structure. A tower crane is presented as a simplified two-dimensional case. Using Popsicle sticks and hot glue, student teams design, build and test a simple tower crane model according to these principles, ending with a team competition. "
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