Posted on January 11th, 2011 by Jaimie Schock
The Sustainability Workshop video series from Autodesk, an eGFI sponsor, uses animated drawings and real-world examples in short films that explain essential concepts for budding engineers. Some topics include engineering systems, green design, turning an idea into a finished product, and even why modern bicycles look so different from those built 200 years ago.
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Tags: Architectural, Corporations, Design, Engineering Design, Engineering Design Process, Environmental Engineering, Green, Green Technology, Software, Sustainability, Videos, Web Resources
Posted on December 5th, 2010 by ASEE
Seventh-grade technology education students in Hampton, Va., are learning to create clay animation videos using a webcam, software and clay. They research, design and create a five- to 10-minute episode for a hypothetical TV show, creating a storyboard, script, animated characters and digital imagery. “They’re only limited by their imagination,” says teacher Terry Beddow.
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Filed under: K-12 Education News | Comments Off on 7th Graders Create Animation Videos
Tags: Animation, Art, Art and Engineering, Computer Science, Design, Engineering Design, Technology, Technology Education, Technology for Learning
Posted on September 20th, 2010 by ASEE
The Designing Tomorrow exhibit at the National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C., October 2, 2010 -July 10, 2011, explores the modernist spectacles of architecture and design Americans witnessed at the nation’s world’s fairs between 1933 and 1940 — visions of a brighter future during the worst economic crisis the United States had known. The fairs popularized modern design for the American public and promoted the idea of science and consumerism as salvation from the Great Depression.
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Tags: Architecture, Building Design, Design, Engineering in History
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by ASEE
Inspire the inventors, innovators, and designers in your class with a look at the Why Design Now exhibit at New York City’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum — online or in person. See what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales around the world. Included are practical solutions, as well as experimental ideas. Each creation — from a soil-powered table lamp to a post-petroleum urban utopia — celebrates the transformative power of design.
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Tags: Cooper Hewitt Museum, Design, Museums, Smithsonian Institution
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by ASEE
As the Navy’s main combat search-and-rescue gunship, the Sikorsky HH-60H Seahawk is a workhorse of a helicopter that’s been in service since the mid-1980s. That means it sometimes needs updating. Now, help for the new redesign is coming from an unexpected quarter — a San Antonio high school.
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Tags: Design, Engineering Design, Reverse Engineering, STEM education, U.S. Navy
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by ASEE
This online workshop was developed by NASA and PBS’s DESIGN SQUAD for educators and afterschool leaders who want to build skills and confidence in guiding students through engineering activities. Participants gain strategies for strengthening kids’ critical-thinking abilities and getting them excited about using the design process–the series of steps engineers use to arrive at solutions.
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Tags: Design, Engineering Design Process, NASA, PBS, Web Resources
Posted on April 5th, 2010 by ASEE
Who hasn’t been frustrated by hard-to-open, clumsy containers?
Assuming the role of engineers, students learn about the design process and examine the packaging of everyday products. They then analyze a specific product and devise a better design, producing a written report that recommends helpful changes.
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Tags: Design, Engineering Design Process, Industrial engineering, package design
Posted on April 5th, 2010 by ASEE
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York City, offers perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through educational and curatorial programming.
Collections include more than 250,000 design objects and a design library, while exhibitions, educational programs, and an on-site, degree-granting master’s program explore the process of design, both historic and contemporary. Teachers may be particularly interested in the online Educators Resource Center, which provides lesson plans, videos, and links to other on-line resources.
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Tags: Design, Museums, Programs for Students, Programs for Teachers, Web Resources
Posted on March 12th, 2010 by ASEE
The Spring 2010 Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lecture series bringing “product design that empowers” to 25 U.S.high schools and universities. The road show features a biodiesel-powered truck and Airstream trailer exhibition of 40 humanitarian design solutions, sponsored by Project H Design. The products will be on view at every stop for visitors to experience, use, and touch; each is a smart design solution to one of eight issues: Water, Well-Being, Energy, Education, Play, Food, Mobility, Enterprise.
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Tags: Amazing Engineering, Design, Engineering Design Process, Exhibit, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades K-5
