Intro to Engineering

Prototype a solution

Communicate your design

Define the problem

Brainstorm multiple solutions

You are tired

Your work day was too stressful

Your friends are coming over

You are hungry

Identify constraints on your solution

Build a protoype

Communicate your design

Give up

A restriction for possible solutions

A physical object holding you down

Any possible solution

Someone is a vegetarian

Someone is gluten-free

People will show up in 30 minutes

You have a few ingredients at home

Time

People to work with

Budget

Building a prototype

Brainstorming ideas

Testing and evaluating your prototype

Food types

Animal species

Inventions

Canceling the hangout plans

Pick the easiest solution

Abandon the project

Select the most promising solution

Building a salad

PB & J on corn tortillas

Ordering takeout

A taco

A corn tortilla with PB & J

A pizza

A car

Yes, everyone loved it

No, it was gross

The tortilla

The filling

Throwing away the current prototype and starting again

Continuing with the solution even though it got negative reviews

Making changes to the current prototype based on tests and user feedback

Only once

Two or three times

Never

As much as they need to

Ordering takeout

Making taco filling instead

Making it with bread

Adding cheese

Removing the beans

Asking a friend to bring hot sauce

Changing the tortilla

Building a prototype

Communicating your solution

Enjoying tacos