A Deeper Dive of the Engineering Design Process

Working with Device Quality at Amazon Lab126 for the second summer, my Education Transfer Plan (ETP) is to create more depth and complexity to the engineering design projects I developed in my first ETP for my English Language Arts (ELA) courses at AdVenture STEM last summer (2018). Students will learn how to design and iterate multiple versions of the prototypes they build, which includes making data-informed decisions about their redesigns. The focus of my ETP this summer will be on the final phase of the Engineering Design Process, which Device Quality closely tracks and monitors here at Amazon Lab126.

By focusing on the final phase of the engineering design process, students will follow a quality process that ensures their prototypes are designed and produced with fidelity. I will be able to teach students what I have learned over two summers about Amazon’s Product Development Process (PDP) and how Amazon manages Quality from concept to customer. Specifically, I will be able to apply more of the Design for Quality process, which includes Risk Assessment and Quality Assurance, including Statistical Process Control (SPC) to our educational projects back in the classroom.