Design Squad
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Computing Diversity Design Engineering Diversity Entrepreneurship and Innovation General Engineering, Engineering Science Mechanical Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
Engineering Photo Competition |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Laboratory/Experiment/Field Activity |
| Media Type: |
WWW |
| Author(s): |
Organization:PBS |
| Description: | Design Squad is a PBS project to get students involved in typical engineering problem solving and design. The site contains many simple design projects that can be used to initiate discussion of the mathematics, models and design priciples behind typical engineering design. |
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| Keywords: | Engineering Design |
| Referenced By: |
Discover Engineering |
| Usage Tip | |
| Related ABET Criteria: |
Creative Thinking Design Skills Engagement Motivation |
| Use of Resource: |
Great for kids and young adults. " Ready to get creative? Try out your own design skills with these 15 Design Squad challenges. You can build all of these projects using materials you can usually find around the house." |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
High |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | August 2008 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://pbskids.org/designsquad/projects/index.html |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
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