This project is a team based competitive design challenge. It is designed to test your ability to reach a design solution and build a prototype featuring optimum performance for a specified task.

The task involves:

1.    Developing up with a design proposal

2.    Building a prototype

3.    Testing the prototype in a competitive situation

Teams

Teams will be made of four students per team with individuals acting in the following roles:

1.    Managing Director: Overall responsibility, team leadership

2.   Creative Director: Chooses which concept proposal goes forward to prototype

3.    Materials acquisition: Leads the effort to get the material required for building the wheel.

4.    Building Director: Leads the process of building the wheel, ensuring quality of build and on time delivery.

Project specification:

Imagine a platform one meter high with a ramp to one side as per shown in the diagram below:

Design a wheel which wins the competition where the winner is the wheel that travels furtest multiplied by the diameter of the wheel (there is an incentive to go large).

The wheel should roll down the ramp and continue having been eased over the side by a feather touch and travel according to its own momentum derived from the gravity drop experienced on the slope.

Wheel project teams

1.    Squirrel

Managing Director      James Summers

Creative Director        CmcC

Build Lead                   JW

Materials Lead            GMcGl

2.    Mouse

Managing Director      Mickael Pitarresi

Creative Director        CK

Build Lead                   CoK

Materials Lead            PL

3.    Caveman

Managing Director      Kieran Moore

Creative Director        SMcB

Build Lead                   AL

Materials Lead            CQ

4.    Mongoose

Managing Director      Adam McConnell

Creative Director        EM

Build Lead                   MS

Materials Lead            MMcD

5.    Narwhale

Managing Director      Natasha White

Creative Director        PB

Build Lead                   Shannon

Materials Lead            Jeffery G

6.    Sheepbeast

Managing Director      Kerry Harrison

Creative Director        Greg C

Build Lead                   SMcC

Materials Lead            Kirsty

7.    Wishful

Managing Director      Sarah McDermott

Creative Director        MCD

Build Lead                   RD

Materials Lead            EH

8.    Killer Panda

Managing Director      GS

Creative Director        Tory McG

Build Lead                   MMcM

Materials Lead            CMcE

9.    Sloth

Managing Director      Lewis Brooks

Creative Director        LM

Build Lead                   AW

Materials Lead            JS

5th man                   Cal Douglas

10.  Hamster 

Managing Director      Rebecca Simpson

Creative Director        PG/LMcF

Build Lead                   SMcC

Materials Lead            AS

11.  Platypus

Managing Director      AB

Creative Director        CM

Build Lead                   GMcE/KD

Materials Lead            KW

12.    Last

Managing Director      Erin Reid

Creative Director        JMcK

Build Lead                  AS

Materials Lead            SR

13.  Hat

Managing Director      Jessica McKenna

Creative Director        GMcC

Build Lead                   RMC

Materials Lead            DQ

14.  God

Managing Director      Debbie Hall

Creative Director        MP

Build Lead                   ND

Materials Lead            KD

15. Dramatic (A special guest team from the Foyle Arts Drama Dept.)

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