Catapult project
Introduction-
For the catapult project we were put into teams of three and had to design and build a catapult that could shoot a ball into a trash can at the distances of ten and twenty five feet. My team and I designed a floating arm trebuchet. My team put me in charge of the CAD design and final assembly of the catapult while they were in charge of materials and testing.
Standards-
Justification-
Durning my work on this projecct I used all the standards listed above and deepened my understanding of the design process
For the catapult project we were put into teams of three and had to design and build a catapult that could shoot a ball into a trash can at the distances of ten and twenty five feet. My team and I designed a floating arm trebuchet. My team put me in charge of the CAD design and final assembly of the catapult while they were in charge of materials and testing.
Standards-
- Drafting/Drawing/Engineering Graphics/Modeling
- CAD/CAM/CAE Applications
- Tolerance Analysis/GD & T
- Analyze solutions, identifying strengths and weaknesses
- Develop details of a solution
- Identify design principles used to evaluate existing designs, to collect data, and to guide the design process.
- Describe the influence of personal characteristics, such as creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to visualize and
- think abstractly on the Engineering Design process.
- Develop, test, and redesign prototypes
- Construct a prototype or a working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and
- necessary adjustments.
- Identify factors taken into account in the process of engineering.
Justification-
Durning my work on this projecct I used all the standards listed above and deepened my understanding of the design process
picture of trebuchet we based our design off of