Purpose
This entire project was centered around the development of a puzzle cube based on specific criteria and using a specified design process. The students involved sparked and nurtured a variety of new skills that are practical and entirely necessary for an engineer to have. The students developed the skills to help them start creating a design brief, the skills of brainstorming to develop useful ideas, the skills to winnow ideas down until the most desirable one has been selected, the drafting skills necessary to document work, the technical skills to create working drawings and models on the Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software, the skills to create a prototype, and the skills to collect/analyze data using your product. The students undertaking this product have developed in many useful ways!