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Hot
Air Balloon Project 1:
Balloon Manufacturing Project
Developed by Dr. Veronica Burrows and Dr. Barry McNeill,
Instructions to
Students
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Project
Statement
You are to develop the manufacturing plan for a small
hot air balloon, and to build the balloon using your
plan. Demonstrations of the balloons will be done at the
conclusion of the project. |
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Design Constraints
The constraints on the balloon are as follows:
• The balloon will be powered by the hot air output from
a hair dryer;
• It must rise up after the hair dryer is removed from
beneath it;
• It must stay aloft for at least five seconds;
• It must have a maximum dimension in any direction of
one meters; and
• It must be made of materials whose total cost does not
exceed $20. |
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Project Tasks
Work on Project 1 is divided into two parts, each ending
with a design review (P1.1 and P1.2). You will begin by
doing a Problem Formulation in which you gather
information, and in which you will identify goals and
constraints both for the project and for your team. You
will next generate a set of alternative balloon designs
followed by the selection of one design. You will then
develop a process to actually build the balloon you
designed, and following this process, you will construct
the balloon and bring it to class for demonstration and
display. All the work that you do on this project will
be collected into a Design Notebook that will be
examined during the design reviews.
Specific tasks associated with the project will be
described in more detail (below).
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Tasks Associated with Developing
the Design
The design process heuristic presented in this class
includes the following steps:
1. Define the problem,
2. Generate solutions,
3. Select a solution,
4. Implement the solution, and
5. Evaluate your efforts.
Although these steps normally occur in chronological
order, your team should expect to go through most of the
steps more than once, as you review and then refine your
preliminary work.
More information on Design Tasks
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Tasks Associated
with Documenting the Design Process
This
project comprises a series of tasks that, taken
together, constitute your team’s effort. In any design
effort, it is necessary to keep a record of what was
done and to keep that record in a form that a
technically competent person could audit and understand
what was done, when it was done, why it was done, who
did it, and what the consequences were. There are
different ways to do this; your team will learn to use a
Design Notebook to accomplish this task.
More information on the Design Notebook
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Tasks Associated with
Developing Your Team
Teams will submit a
Team Self Assessment
midway through the project. While this assignment is
assessed separately from the project (as part of the
Team Combination Assignment), the work will go into the
Design Notebook.
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Tasks Associated with
Reviewing Your Work
A
Design Review is an activity that allows your
supervisors, customers, sponsors, clients, etc., to
assess your progress in achieving the desired project
goals and outcomes. Often design reviews are milestones
that must be satisfactorily passed before you are
permitted to continue with the project. In this course,
you will be expected to submit the following at the
submission of P1.1 and P1.2:
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A Design Notebook with all of the team’s
work to date
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A
brief progress report (submitted separately from the
Design Notebook)
More information on Reviewing Your Work
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Project Deliverables
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Team
Progress Reports for Design Reviews (P1.1 and P1.2)
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Team
Design Notebook
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Team
Balloon Design
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Demonstration
of Design
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Instruction
to Students |
Handouts
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