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Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design

Creativity, Engagement and Learning

By: Andrew E. Samuel

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Hardcover | 9 November 2005

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Make and test projects are used as introductory design experiences in almost every engineering educational institution world wide.

However, the educational benefits and costs associated with these projects have been seldom examined. Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design provides a serious examination of the design of make and test projects and their associated educational values. A taxonomy is provided for the design of make and test projects as well as a catalogue of technical information about unconventional engineering materials and energy sources. Case studies are included based on the author's experience of supervising make and test projects for over twenty-five years.

The book is aimed at the engineering educator and all those planning and conducting make and test projects. Up until now, this topic has been dealt with informally. Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design is the first book that formalises this important aspect of early learning in engineering design. It will be an invaluable teaching tool and resource for educators in engineering design.

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Professor Samuel has had many years of experience in designing and supervising Design, Make & Test projects for undergraduates, which he has collated and presents in this excellent book.

It is a book that is long overdue and will be welcomed by both engineering students and their academic and industrial mentors. In addition, it will appeal to all those practising design engineers and managers who seldom get the opportunity to revitalize their passion for their chosen profession. We all too frequently get bogged down with the day-to-day tasks concerning administration, budgets and people issues that it is easy to forget some engineering design fundamentals that inspired us to become design engineers.

I strongly recommend this book as essential reading for all engineering design academics, teachers of design and technology in schools and those in industry that are responsible for supervising students undertaking real engineering projects.

Mike D. Seymour, CEng, FiMechE, Engineering Design Consultant

Journal of Engineering Design 17(5), 479-480, October 2006

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Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgement	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Invention, Creativity, Engagement	p. 13
Inventing, Inventions and Design	p. 17
An Instructive Example: The Can Opener	p. 23
Cognitive Science, Creativity and Analysis in Design	p. 31
Engagement and Learning	p. 38
Some Examples of Generic MaT Projects in Engineering Design	p. 42
The Benefits and Costs of MaT Projects	p. 45
Chapter Summary	p. 52
The Genesis and Development of MaT Projects	p. 53
MaT Projects Using Static Structures	p. 53
Design for Axial Loading (Struts)	p. 54
Design for Transverse Loading (beams)	p. 55
MaT Projects Designed to Use Moving and Dynamic Devices	p. 58
Energy Sources	p. 58
Potential Performance Requirements and Variables	p. 59
Wheeled Vehicles	p. 59
Vehicles Designed to travel in or Over Water	p. 61
Airborne Vehicles	p. 63
Devices with Mixed Performance Requirements	p. 63
Some Key Materials of Construction	p. 65
Level of Difficulty and Complexity of Projects	p. 66
Team Dynamics	p. 70
Morphology of MaT Projects	p. 71
Chapter Summary	p. 76
Properties and Application of Some Unconventional Engineering Materials	p. 77
Balsa Wood	p. 78
Mechanical Properties	p. 80
Newsprint	p. 82
Mechanical Properties of Paper	p. 88
Polymers, Composites, and Other Strange Structural Materials	p. 89
Rigid Polyurethane Foam and Foamcore	p. 89
Bamboo Skewers	p. 90
Drinking Straws, Spaghetti	p. 91
Cotton Thread	p. 92
Establishing Mechanical Properties for Materials Used in MaT Model Construction	p. 93
Testing Balsa Wood	p. 93
Testing Newsprint	p. 95
Testing of Other Unconventional Structural Materials	p. 96
Some Additional Notes on Testing and Failure Behaviour	p. 97
Adhesives	p. 98
Test Results for Mechanical Properties of MaT Project Construction Materials	p. 101
Chapter Summary	p. 106
MaT Projects for Static Load-bearing Structures	p. 107
Sample MaT Project Problems and Presentation	p. 107
Case Examples of Static MaT Projects	p. 113
Balsa Bridge	p. 113
Balsa Structure	p. 116
Paper Column	p. 118
Urethane Foam Structure	p. 122
Supplementary Opportunities for Static MaT Projects	p. 125
Chapter Summary and Caveats	p. 128
Dynamic MaT Projects: Things That Go "Bump"	p. 129
Energy Sources and Their Measurement	p. 130
Thermal Energy	p. 130
Potential Energy (Gravity Driven)	p. 132
Kinetic Energy	p. 133
Elastic Energy	p. 135
Electrical Energy Sources	p. 139
A Panoply of Dynamic MaT Projects	p. 142
Fetch and Carry MaT Projects	p. 143
Navigationally Challenged Vehicles	p. 144
"How Can it be Done?" Projects	p. 144
Administration and Conduct of Dynamic MaT Projects	p. 145
Case studies of Dynamic MaT Projects	p. 149
Experimental Evaluation of Energy Available from Various Sources Energy from Toy Rubber Balloons and Mousetraps	p. 150
Chapter Summary	p. 154
Case Examples of Dynamic MaT Projects	p. 155
Projects with Special Focus on Energy Capture and Conversion	p. 156
Projects Involving Water-based Transport	p. 156
Projects Using Ground Transport	p. 157
Airborne MaT Projects	p. 157
A Generic MaT Project Case Example A Beverage Can Roller (ABC)	p. 157
Sample Entries	p. 159
Three More Documented Case Examples	p. 168
Case Example 2 - Walking on Water (Aquaped)	p. 168
Case Example 3 - One Candle-power Engine (OCPE)	p. 176
Case Example 4 - Mechanical Frog (JFC)	p. 186
A Brief Description of Other MaT Projects	p. 193
Daring Young Designers and Flying-machines (DYDaF)	p. 193
Payloads on Pools (PoP)	p. 194
Projects Involving Direct Head-to-head Contests (Drawbar Pull)	p. 196
Projects Using Various Novel Forms of Energy	p. 197
Climbing and Jumping MaT Projects	p. 197
Some Concluding Notes on Design Guidance and Engagement	p. 201
Chapter Summary	p. 202
Concluding Notes and Some "CUTIEs"	p. 203
CUTIE 1: Temperature-controlled Soldering Iron	p. 204
CUTIE 2: Galileo's Thermometer	p. 205
CUTIE 3: Tensegrity Structures	p. 207
CUTIE 4: Renewable Energy Sources	p. 209
Wind Farms	p. 209
Energy from the Ocean	p. 209
Demonstration of Physics Principles	p. 211
MaT Project Metaphor	p. 211
Some Further Interesting Problems	p. 218
The Shape of Things	p. 219
The Way Things Work	p. 221
Limits of Performance	p. 223
Some Not-so-clever Inventions	p. 223
Creative Ideas and Patents	p. 225
Chapter Summary	p. 228
References and Bibliography	p. 229
Engineering Case Library	p. 241
Readings for MaT Project Planning	p. 242
A Primer on Mechanics	p. 243
Statics	p. 243
Forces	p. 243
Planar Pinned Structures	p. 245
Bending	p. 248
Torsion	p. 251
Dynamics	p. 252
Force and Acceleration	p. 252
Work and Energy	p. 254
Very Elementary Gas Dynamics	p. 257
Newton or Aristotle?	p. 261
Units of Measurement and Conversion Factors	p. 263
Systems of Measurement and Standardisation	p. 264
The Seven Fundamental SI Units	p. 265
Some Derived Units and Dimensions	p. 265
Conversion Factors	p. 268
Some Properties of Plane Sections and Answers to Selected Exercises	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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