medical supply dropbox

ENGR 101 Online Design Challenge - Project 2/Final Project

Designing a medical supply drop box

Introduction:

You have be hired as a consultant on a design challenge. Yourjob is to create and analyze the best design for a medical supply drop box.Each person in the group will design, build and test their own design and thenthe group will come together as a team to create a single technical report andposter to analyze the data and come up with the best final design. Remember, thismedical supply drop box is just a rapid prototype of a much larger scale designthat will be used to safely deliver medical supplies into hostile territoryfrom a plane.

Rules:

· The drop box must not bemore than 6 inches in height, width or depth.

· You may use any materials youwish but spend no more than $20 a person total.

· You cannot buy a kit, youmust design from scratch.

· You must be able to easily placea raw egg into the drop box and it must not be cracked, broken or compromisedin any way when you drop it from a height of 7 feet. *Disclaimer: please do notclimb on things to drop this from 7 feet, you should be able to reach your armup and get to 7 feet. BE SAFE!*

· The drop box should wanderno more than a 1 foot radius from the initial drop location. Your goal is toget it to hit the ground as close to your initial drop location. If the boxhits the ground within a 1 foot radius and then bounces out, that is OK.

What you need to test and record:

· Please make sure you recordthe following things and use the data to compare it with your teammates to comeup with a single final design. Please put the data in excel and make sure youinclude a table in your poster and technical report. You must have multipletrials (at least 5 trials per person).

· Record the exact height ofdrop (7 feet).

· Record the time from releaseto when it hits the ground. You will need to decide if this is an importantfactor in the full scale design. Is it important for the supplies to get to theground as fast as it can, or can is take a while to safely float to the ground?It’s totally up to you, but make sure you can justify the reason in yourdiscussion in your technical report.

· Record the number of inchesfrom the initial drop location. For example, if you drop it, and it landsEXACTLY below it on the ground, your number of inches is 0.

· Each person must have atleast 3 successful (did not break any rules) trials out of 5 or you need tochange your design.

· Record whether the egg brokeor remained intact.

· Record what materials youused in your design.

· Record the size of thesupply box (approximate length, width and height).

· *hint: I would put the rawegg into a plastic zip-lock bag before you test so that you can have easycleanup*

Individual design:

Each student is required to design, build and test a medicaldrop box. Your individual designs are due by June 8. Everything you need to test and record is listed in theabove section.

Final design:

The final design can be a single group member’s design or itcan be a combination of parts of multiple designs. It must be built and tested bya team member.

Deliverables:

· Team charter and Team Ganttchart: Due by June 8, 11:00PMinto eCampus project 2 folder

· Individual Designs: I need apicture of your individual designs and an excel file of your tested data by June 14, 11:00PM into eCampus project2 folder to ensure that everyone is on the right track and working towards thefinal design and technical report in a reasonable amount of time.

· Final design: Due by theend of the project.

· Technical report: Due by June 22, 11:00PM into eCampus project 2folder

· Technical poster: Due by June 22, 11:00PM  into eCampus project 2 folder