ES 1050 Winter Design Reflection (Design Reflection 5)

Winter Design Reflection 5

1.
Food Opener

a. The skill that I wanted to improve was my creative thinking skills.

2.
b.

• Used creative thinking exercises like ideating about difficult practice engineering
decisions.
• Put myself at the head of ideating to gain experience in creative thinking.

c.

• Success was evident by the reactions of my group members, they agreed with my
ideas as they were clearly thought through.
• The success was also evident as my performance in practice questions for various
classes improved as I was better able to analyse the practice questions.

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3.
a.
The most critical tool which we used was the questions that we asked to our client,
this provided the most insight into how we should build the project to out clients
specifications.
b.
One reason why it was so important was that we were able to tailor our solutions
directly to the client and address potential problems before they even came up, as
the client had insight that we did not have.

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4.
a.
The most important action was the action of creating the prototype and then testing it. This
has allowed us to find different problems like weight distribution causing lifting and find
solutions to them.
b.
This is effective because all designs need testing in the real world as unforeseen problems
will always arise so it is highly important to be able to address these problems through
prototyping.

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Unacceptable
Weight
[0, 1, 2, 3]
Very vague or
inappropriate steps taken
2. Skills Development
to gain knowledge/skills
desired, and/or
description of how new
10
capabilities are being
used to support the
project does not show
how it is relevant to the
project.
Very poorly identified a)
actions or tools for
understanding the design
3. Understanding the
challenge and/or b)
reasons for selecting
10 these actions/tools as
critical to their project
and/or c) reasons not
Problem
linked to project context
through appropriate
examples.
Very poorly identified a)
actions or tools for solving
4. Solving the Problem
the design challenge
and/or b) reasons for
selecting these
10
actions/tools as critical to
their project and/or c)
reasons not linked to
project context through
appropriate examples.
• Failed to indicate project Topic: -2
Penalties
• Failed to match pages to Questions in the Gradescope submission (excluding the Penalties Question): -6
• Substandard spelling and/or grammar: up to -3
• Late submission: -6
Below expectations Meets expectations Exceeds expectations
[4, 5, 6] [7, 8] [9, 10]
As in Meets expectations
As Meets expectations Concisely presented steps
but demonstrates
BUT steps taken are vague taken to build the required
exceptional clarity in steps
or poorly linked to the knowledge / skills. Steps
taken and exceptional
skills desired, and/or taken were clear and
initiative by the student in
description of how new actionable. Clear and
gaining planned capabilities
capability is being used to concise description of how
and/or demonstrates
support the project is that capability is being used
exceptional impact on the
vague. in the team project.
project.
Concisely identified critical
Vaguely identified actions
actions or tools for
or tools for understanding As in Meets expectations
understanding the design
the design challenge but with exceptional insight
challenge. Had solid well-
and/or vague reasons for demonstrated in their
presented reasons for
selecting these reasoning. E.g. answer
selecting these
actions/tools as critical to demonstrates how
actions/tools as critical to
their project and/or actions/tools are relevant
their project. Reasons
reasons not clearly linked to the design process in
linked clearly to project
to project context through general.
context through
appropriate examples.
appropriate examples.
Vaguely identified actions Concisely identified critical
or tools for solving the actions or tools for solving As in Meets expectations
design challenge and/or the design challenge. Had but with exceptional insight
vague reasons for selecting solid well-presented demonstrated in their
these actions/tools as reasons for selecting these reasoning. E.g. answer
critical to their project actions/tools as critical to demonstrates how
and/or reasons not clearly their project. Reasons actions/tools are relevant
linked to project context linked clearly to project to the design process in
through appropriate context through general.
examples. appropriate examples.