Summer SAVY, Session 2 Day 5, Biomedical Engineering (1st-2nd)
Happy Friday!
Biomedical Engineers were hard at work today! From a plan to a prototype – we created our knee braces that would help Mattias’ injured knee function like a healthy knee. I am SO proud of how well each Engineering Design Team persevered as a TEAM! It was a difficult task. Ideas were shared, engineers collaborated, and problems were solved. We moved through the entire design process to ultimately create a successful prototype.
While students did not come home with their final project, as it was a team creation, I have included photos of the completed prototypes so you can see how their plans came to fruition.
Some final takeaways from today were: the properties of a material determines its usefulness for different parts of a design; the Engineering Process can be used to solve problems; models can be especially useful during the “Create” step of the Engineering Design process; applying knowledge of range of motion of a healthy human knee is useful in informing designs; and using knowledge of properties of materials is important when selecting materials for designs.
Here are some questions you can ask your child about problems they encountered during the “Create” process:
- How did your team solve the problem?
- How did working as a team or collaborating with other engineers impact your design?
- Were there problems that you couldn’t solve?
- If you had to create a new design for a knee brace or improve your current design, what features would it have? What materials would you use and why?
Thank you so much for a wonderful and inquisitive week of creating and designing! We hope to see you at another SAVY session soon!
Check out the pictures of some prototypes! What features do you see?
Warmly,
Ms. Courtney & Ms. Sharon
