Step 6: Evaluate my Solution
Step 1: Define the Problem
Step 3: Develop a Solution
Step 7: Re-Design
Step 4: Construct a Prototype
Innovation
Step 5: Test my Prototype
Invention
How the scientific method is related to the engineering design process
Engineering Design Process
Step 2: Generate Concepts
Scientific Method
We are tasked with trying to design & build a mousetrap car that can travel 1 tile in the hallway as fast as possible
What we are doing in this project...Improving upon a mousetrap car design.
Stepwise process used to innovate a mousetrap car design by using scientific knowledge
Perform experiments on mousetrap cars AND learn science concepts around mousetrap cars to understand how they work
Stepwise process used to research how or why mousetrap cars work AND the science concepts behind them
Take my mousetrap car design, go in the hallway, wind it up, and let the car go to see how it performs
Come up with an idea for a mousetrap car design that will travel 1 tile in the hallway as fast as possible AND then draw a labeled diagram of that idea (prototype)
Watch the mousetrap car that I have designed AND look for areas where it can be improved
Not what we are doing in this project...building the 1st mousetrap car.
Go back to step 3 and re-develop a solution based on my observations of how my mousetrap car idea performed
The scientific method is the research section of the engineering design process
Build my idea for a mousetrap car that will travel 1 tile fast.
