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Head Gear Design Challenge Guide

The document provides guidance for an engineering design challenge to design protective head gear that reduces forces from head collisions. It outlines the design process and constraints for using provided materials to design adjustable head gear that stays on during activity and prevents concussion from a impact simulator. It details brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, testing with data collection, and evaluation steps.

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Head Gear Design Challenge Guide

The document provides guidance for an engineering design challenge to design protective head gear that reduces forces from head collisions. It outlines the design process and constraints for using provided materials to design adjustable head gear that stays on during activity and prevents concussion from a impact simulator. It details brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, testing with data collection, and evaluation steps.

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Engineering Design Challenge Guide

Your mission
Use the engineer’s design process to design and construct a prototype for
protective head gear that reduces the forces from head collisions. The design
process is summarized in the Design Thinking loop:
Design statement
Using only materials provided, design protective head gear for your model brain
that reduces the force of the concussion impact simulator.

Constraints
Your protective head gear must be adjustable to precisely fit the individual wearing
it.

Your protective head gear must have technology that prevents it from falling off
during activity.

Brainstorm/sketches
Work with your supervisor to determine where you will complete your initial
brainstorm and sketches. This might be in your student guide or using pencil and
paper. Your sketch should be done from multiple points of view (top, front, side).
This should be done individually.

Looking for ideas on which materials to use for your protective gear? Consider
materials easily available to you such as cotton balls, packing material, cardboard,
folded printer paper, and marshmallows.
Sketch prototype design:

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Prototype
Build a prototype based on your sketch from the previous step. Be sure to write
down all notes and observations.
Test
Test your prototype using the Brain Impact Simulator and the Excel workbook.
Run trials and record your findings and then improve your design with new ideas
generated from the testing and data collected. Complete three trials for each
prototype and save your trial data to the Impact simulator data sheet in the
workbook for analysis. This data will help you decide which components of your
prototype should be improved prior to your next sequence of testing.

Evaluation
Report your findings to your classmates. Discuss your design process, failures and
solutions. Use data to show how your prototype influenced the force of impact. If
your design did not reduce the force, discuss your data and possible new prototype
ideas.

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