And the winner is... The Tower Project results

Fours teams presented towers and completed a "Failure" test. Three teams made it through five levels of testing. Only one tower met the testing requirements of 2 pounds.

Congratulations to the all the presenters. Special congratulations to Alex Vann and the Blue team.

Check this out!!!!

http://www.jets.org/programs/nedc/generalinformation.cfm

Failure Anaylsis-Build, test and evaluate a tower. Part 1

The students completed research on tall structures and made individual designs for a prototype. Then, as a team, they selected a final design and submitted a supply request for "purchased materials".

These pictures show the students building their structures.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/60minutes/main4579229.shtml

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste

Watch the video clip and read the article. Then write a two paragraph summary. Due Friday, 11/14/08.

Extended HW Novemeber 2

Go to the following website. Read the article and watch the video clips. Write a three paragraph summary. Due Monday, Novemeber 10th.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/31/60minutes/main4560940.shtml

Project: Lemonade

HW: You are an "Industrial Engineer".
Your client wants to sell 16 oz glasses of homemade lemonade. You have been hired to create the product.
1. Use the Design Process graphic organizer to create an outline for the project.
2. Complete the project based on the outline.
3. Write a summary of the activity, especially challenges and resolutions.
4. The outline and summary are due on Monday, October 20, 2008.

Prof. Perez-Luna; Assoc. Prof Chemical Engineering IIT

Field Trip: Chicago Center for Green Technology 9/18/08

The students completed a tour of the facility and the grounds. These pictures were taken on the roof. The roof has solar panels that generate heat for the building. A portion of the roof is covered with sedum. (See the students comments for more information.)

Quote

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope

Beam Strength

Students load tested the strength of beams made from varying amounts of spaghetti. The documented and discussed their results.

Foil Boats

Each team designed four boats out of foil. Then they load tested each, recorded the data, and chose their best design.

Rise over Run

The students took several measurements of the hallway stairs in order to estimate the angle of elevation of the stairwell.

Day 1 "Book covers"

On the first day of class the students learned an "old school" method of covering books, following a set of directions. None of these students had ever done this before!

This was follwed by a discussion on innovation and why we love today's stretchy book covers.

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