Discovering Design: Pinhole Camera OverviewThis unit guides students through a “discovery” of the engineering design process as they create a pinhole camera that meets both quantitative design specifications and qualitative requirements for usability by people with limited dexterity in their hands and wrists. Rather than give students the design process and walk them through steps that have been named for them, the teacher guides students through the unnamed steps, pausing after each step to ask students to give a name what they have just done. The final lesson in the unit is a reflection and comparison on the process that the class has “discovered” to the “official” engineering design process employed by Engineer Your World, which they will use to solve the remaining challenges of the course. The purpose of this constructivist approach is to empower the students to “create” and “own” their version of a process that will be central to their experience in this course.
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Student Learning Objectives
The goals of the unit are that students will:
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Design an appropriate solution (i.e., pinhole camera) for a specified customer and user by:
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