Unit 7: Grade 11/12 Technological Design - Robotics - Marketing and Portfolio - Web authoring, portfolio and presentation

Unit 7: Grade 11/12 Technological Design - Robotics - Marketing Portfolio and Design Log

With Technological Design and Engineering, one key element is showcasing your work by building a portfolio and design log. For this course you have had the opportunity to learn about the design process using SPICE as a model and applied common steps to all projects. To define and showcase steps in a medium that is easy to organize and share, a word document is a great way to do this and show your accomplished work, learning, and steps taken,when creating a portfolio.

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Unit 7, Act. 1: Web Portfolio

Unit 2, Act. 2: Applying the Design Process

Situation:

A class of students interested in the field of Engineering have taken a course to find out what Technology Design is all about. One of the major principals of this course/field is the "Design Process". Coming up with solutions is what Engineers do on a daily bases.

Problem/Challenge:

This is a two part project, with the first part understanding the design process and identifying the steps on different tasks/challenges such as coming up with an idea for a Key chain accessory using this process. Your task is to use the design process model, SPICE to design a practical/decorative key chain accessory to be later drawn in CAD and printed in 3D using our 3D printer. While doing this you are to also identify and report on the design steps in relation to this project to show your understanding of SPICE. The key chain accessory is to include:

A design that is unique, custom, practical/decorative and related to tech
Equivalently sized to approximately the size of a chap stick container
A minimum 5 mm diameter hole for the key ring with at least mm sufficient support material around the hole
A minimum 5 mm general thickness

You will need to show the following when going through the process of this project:

The first three steps of SPICE explained in terms of this project the key chain accessory
Five different thumbnail ideas and labeled
Final full page scaled orthographic sketch showing all needed dimensions and an isometric view

For those that would like to customize their own idea, they will require a proposal Word form to be filled out and approved by the instructor which you can get from the school pick-up folder. The idea must still follow the same process of current project but may have a different product.

Investigation/Ideas:

A design process is what engineers, antipersonnel, inventors, etc. use or go through to come up with great solutions to resolve or find solutions to problems. There are many design process models out there, some very long and detailed wile others simple and short. Most successful corporations will already have a process that employees must follow while working which involves reporting on those steps taken. We will look at some of these models and focus in on one specifically called SPICE to show how the technical design process works and also below are some more support links on thumbnail sketching:

Samples of Work

The following samples show what thumbnails would look like and how your orthographic sketches would look like when applied to other designs such as key ring accessory project.

Thumbnails

Ortho 1

Ortho 2-3D CAD

Ortho 3 - 3D Print

Robot Design Process

Interestingly enough, this simple project will gain you some key knowledge about design process and steps that you can apply to just about anything, including the design and building of robots. As this is the focus of this course the next unit will start looking at a specific FIRST robot challenge and going through the design steps by example to come up with a working solution. With this experience, you will have an opportunity to apply it to your own custom robot design, allowing you to repeat and practice what you have learned, allowing you to also refine and enrich details about this process.

Create/Construct:

So this is the section called Create/Construct, which if you have understood the SPICE design model process from the investigation/ideas section, is the part of the process where you select your best idea and act upon it to accomplish your goal (problem/challenge). With these activities I use this section to give you the steps you need to take to accomplish what we need to do in class to learn and experience through hands-on activity such as below:

Design Process Steps Reported and Applied to a Key holder Design

On a sheet of paper write down the following topic/headings:

Situation
Problem/Challenge
Investigation/Ideas

Each topic/heading is to have two to three lines of information explaining what that SPICE step is in relation to the the task of making a key accessory
The Investigation/ideas will include what your ideas are maybe some research and also include the five thumbnails showing your key accessory ideas
Once you have completed your investigation and have many ideas, you will select your best idea and...
Draw a scaled (i.e. to fill the page) orthographic showing correct front, top, and right side view similar to the ortho 1 sample above (ortho 2 and 3 are samples of what junior grades have accomplished) with dimensions and an isometric

Evaluation:

You will be evaluated based on your SPI key accessory explanation, thumbnails, and final orthographic design.

Evaluation Breakdown Component Descriptions	Marks
Always double check that you have completed all components for full marks.
SPICE - SPI part of the design process of the key accessory	10
Thumbnails - create five thumbnails filling a full page with notes on key accessory	10
Orthographic - sketch showing final design with 3 views, dimensions, and isometric	20