User:Vtaylor/Engineering: Arts + Sciences/Ask

Engineering - So what? What can it do?

overview, introduction * what can it do * Engineering: Arts + Sciences
design thinking, process - Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve
teaching, lessons, in a minute / 5 minutes, integrating into science, math, social studies

Overview

Engineering: Arts + Sciences
introduction - Engineering, learning about Engineering
Engineering is everywhere - notice
Design process - you're using it already
Fail and bounce back, when (not if) failure occurs. - failure provides invaluable data that point the way to improvements and enhancements in a design solution, generating one better than that with which a student has begun. This reconceptualization of failure is fundamental to learning not only how to think like an engineer but also how to live as a person in the real world. Failure is among the most human of events in our lives, something we all experience. How we choose to deal with it indicates much about our levels of resilience, optimism, success, and even happiness.
confident self-directed learners
work productively with others.
make decisions based on data.

Ask - man-made, designed. not animal, vegetable, mineral - examples, pictures. Relationship of arts and sciences. Need for both. What would this object be like with just one and not the other. Think wild and crazy. Checks and balances. * eg. Boring concrete blocks for buildings vs Sydney opera house. Tacoma narrows bridge. Statue of Liberty
Imagine - inventions - explore 2-3
Plan - design process - step through the design process as the problem solver for one invention
Create - hands-on activity - pick 1 and do it - ask, imagine, plan, create, improve
Improve - I failed (and learned) today - something new, stretch * in a small group, discuss the grand challenges - progress on 1-2. Present 3 important findings.