Classroom Collaboration: Building Group Skills
This ETP engages students in collaborative design teams to create digital artwork in Adobe Illustrator for screen printing and sale at a school pop-up shop.
Automating our Lives
Students will use systems design to propose ideas for using semiconductor automation systems to improve their communities.
Efficient Design
It’s the 21st century! Show your students that they can be a graphic designer for the tech industry too! In this ETP, Students will develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity skills beyond what they imagined.
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Finding Chemo: Robot Modeling of Chemotaxis
All living things need to obtain materials in order to stay alive. Chemotaxis is the directed movement towards or away from a chemical stimulus. In many cases, chemotaxis is a matter of life or death, so sensing and acting on feedback from the environment is a crucial life function.
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Collaborative Design, Build & Deliver
The days of cookie cutter jobs and cookie cutter workers are rapidly ending. Automation and artificial intelligence will replace many jobs that exist today.
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Coral Bleaching: Multiple Perspectives in Ecology Curriculum
Coral bleaching research is at the heart of my fellowship in the Pringle Lab at Stanford, where they study the symbiosis between reef-building corals and dinoflagellate algae. This symbiosis is crucial to the survival of coral reefs.
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Bioengineering Design Challenge: Clearing a blocked artery
Following the steps of the design thinking process and acting as bioengineers, students will use everyday materials to design and develop devices and/or approaches to unclog model blood vessels.
Balloon Rocket Derby
The goal of this ETP is to introduce and practice the engineering design process in a fun and high interest manner: by designing a balloon “rocket” that uses a straw and various types of string to travel a distance in the fastest possible time.
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Comparing Design Concept
This lesson is designed to drop into the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) course on product design called Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) but it is suitable for any CAD class or engineering design curriculum.