CBA Outreach 2.996 (3,4,5) Pathways To Peace First offered: Fall, 2002Pathways To Peace: Teach the Design Process in the Context of Personal ExpressionPathways To Peace: Course SchedulePathways To Peace: On-Line JournalDesign Process: Essential ElementsDesign Process: TradeoffsDesign Process: Idea Development StrategiesConceptsModulesComponentsEvolving Systems: Individual ThoughtEvolving Systems: Rohrbach's 635 MethodEvolving Systems:Group BrainstormingEvolving Systems: Design Comparison MethodsProof-of-Concept Experiment: Pathways to Peace: IAP 2002 www.pathstopeace.org Designs developed and posted on ThinkCycleLearning from the Experts Artist and Architect ExperienceChoosing a Concept An Engineering ApproachConverting Art to Engineering Moving from the Ideal to the PracticalCreating the Parts WaterjettingLaying out the tilesAssembling the Tiles Mortar and GroutFinished Tiles!Did the Students Enjoy & Learn? See the website www.pathstopeace.org for the presentations each student did to explain their tiles1CBA Outreach 2.996 (3,4,5) Pathways To PeaceFirst offered: Fall, 2002Prof. Alexander H. Slocum, Room 3-445 253.0012 [email protected]. Alan Brody, Room 3-234 253-4892 [email protected] Stone, Hobby Shop 253-4343 [email protected] Mikhak [email protected] Elmouelhi (graduate student) [email protected] Sherman (Artist in Residence)April 5, 20022Pathways To Peace: Teach the Design Process in the Context of Personal Expression•Rational scientific thought processes are learned by many, but practiced by few in the context of their everyday lives–"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm“ Ralph Waldo Emerson•Hypothesis: Design process can be taught, and it can be applied in everyday life:–The design process is essentially the scientific method with the addition of risk analysis:•Observe a problem and study its “physics” and boundary conditions•Develop a hypothesis about how to solve it•Analyze the possible solutions, and run preliminary Bench Level Experiments•Study references and iterate on the solutions•Assess the risks and develop countermeasures•We propose to teach design process by having students design an inlaid or mosaic tile that illustrates something of deep personal meaning to them•The designs and their manufacturing plans will be posted on the internet, and as this course spreads around the world, the first part of the course will evolve to be a period were students make tiles that other students have designed, so that tiles from around the world can be created and installed to build new Pathways To Peace3Pathways To Peace: Course ScheduleWeek Classroom Topic Homework Laboratory Activity1 The Design Process Create simple design Learn to use Waterjet and shop tools2 Artforms: Inlays, mosaics, stencils Team evaluation and evolution of the designsMake simple designs3 CAD: Technical and artistic CAD exercises, think of next designComplete first design4 Critiquing and evolving a design Create Pathways To Peace tile designDisplay, evaluate and learn from first design5 Structural analysis Select materials and size elementsWooden model of the design, display and group critiquing6 Advanced manufacturing techniquesFinalize design, create CAM files for manufacturingMake most critical (challenging) element7 Debugging techniques Evolve design as needed Manufacture the parts8 Apply the design process to a world problemTeams develop solutions to the problemManufacture the parts9 Complete the solution Document the solution Manufacture the parts10 Apply the design process to a world problemTeams develop solutions to the problemBegin final assembly11 Complete the solution Document the solution Final assembly12 Closure Prepare for the display Display4Pathways To Peace: On-Line Journal•The tiles that are developed and their manufacturing plans will be posted on-line–Students will also be encouraged to create food, music, plays, costumes…to create a celebration around their tile•When other students make the tile, they can celebrate its creation with a party in the local flavor in which the tile was created!•The world problems that are identified and “solved” using the design process will be documented and posted for discussion–Maybe world leaders might even find use for some of the suggestions!5Design Process: Essential ElementsFunctional Requirements (Events)WordsDesign Parameters (Idea)Words & DrawingsAnalysisExperiments, Words, FEA, Equations, Spreadsheets…ReferencesHistorical documents, www…RiskWords, Drawings, Analysis…Counter-measuresWords, Drawings, Analysis…A list of independent functions that the design is to accomplish. Series (1,2,3…) and Parallel (4a, 4b..) FRs (Events) can be listed to create the Function StructureIdeally independent means to accomplish each FR. AN FR CAN HAVE SEVERAL POTENTIAL DPs. The “best one” ultimately must be selectedEconomic (financial or maximizing score etc), time & motion, power, stress…EACH DP’s FEASABILITY MUST BE PROVEN.Analysis can be used to create DPs!Anything that can help develop the idea including personal contacts, articles, patents, web sites….High, Medium, Low (explain why) risk of development assessment for each DPIdeas or plan to mitigate each risk, including use of off-the-shelf known solutions• To actually use the FRDPARRC Table:• Create one actual table that becomes your development roadmap• Dedicate one sheet to each FR/DP pair6Design Process: Tradeoffs•Everything performs (in some way) and has a cost (of some sort)–If you spend all your time on a single tree, you will have no time for the forest–If you do not pay attention to the trees, soon you will have no forest!–You have to pay attention to the overall system and to the details•Successful projects keep a close watch on budgets (time, money, performance…)–Do not spend a lot of effort (money) to get a small increase in performance•“Bleeding edge” designs can drain you!–Do not be shy about taking all the performance you can get for the same cost!•Stay nimble (modular!) and be ready to switch streams–It is at the intersection of the streams that things often get exciting!7Design