Back to Engineering Design Process
by Don Rhine
OK, this stage is fun and relatively easy. Get your group together and have and old-fashioned brainstorming session. How many ways can think of solving the client's problem?
Here's what your teams should do...
- Get everyone in one room - best to have a white board (wiki???) to use
- Buy a large pizza
- Buy some soda
- Socialize a bit, and talk about your client a bit
- Then start throwing out ideas
- DO NOT be critical of any ideas (yet!)
- Off the wall ideas often have great insights!
- As a group, you should be able to list about twenty different ways to tackle this problem (some rational, some zany, and some in between!)
- Go home, get a good night's sleep.
- When you wake up, think about the problem again. Any new ideas???
Tasks to complete to finish Step 3: (Due Feb 29)
- Create a brainstorming wiki page and list the ideas you came up with.
- Please include the name of the person who came up with the brilliant idea.
- Ideas should be short, but zanier ones may need a sentence or two of explanation (or, a picture is worth a thjousand words)
...back to Step 2 or on to Step 4...
