Engineering Design and Development (EDD):
The knowledge and skills students acquire throughout PLTW Engineering program come together in EDD as they identify an issue and then research, design, and test a solution, ultimately presenting their solution to a panel of engineers. Students apply the professional skills they have developed to document a design process to standards, ready to take on any post-secondary program or career. Engineering Design and Development (EDD) is the senior capstone course in the PLTW high school engineering program. It is an open-ended engineering research course in which students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a well-defined and justified open-ended problem by applying an engineering design process. Students will perform research to select, define, and justify a problem. After carefully defining the design requirements and creating multiple solution approaches, teams of students select an approach, create, and test their solution prototype. Student teams will present and defend their original solution to an outside panel. While progressing through the engineering design process, students will work closely with experts and will continually hone their organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, their creative and problem solving abilities, and their understanding of the design process.
The knowledge and skills students acquire throughout PLTW Engineering program come together in EDD as they identify an issue and then research, design, and test a solution, ultimately presenting their solution to a panel of engineers. Students apply the professional skills they have developed to document a design process to standards, ready to take on any post-secondary program or career. Engineering Design and Development (EDD) is the senior capstone course in the PLTW high school engineering program. It is an open-ended engineering research course in which students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a well-defined and justified open-ended problem by applying an engineering design process. Students will perform research to select, define, and justify a problem. After carefully defining the design requirements and creating multiple solution approaches, teams of students select an approach, create, and test their solution prototype. Student teams will present and defend their original solution to an outside panel. While progressing through the engineering design process, students will work closely with experts and will continually hone their organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, their creative and problem solving abilities, and their understanding of the design process.
EDD Units of Study:
• Project Management
• Documenting an Engineering Design Process
• Teamwork and Professional Skills
• Problem Identification and Justification
• Research
• Intellectual Property
• Design Requirements
• Project Proposals
• Design
• Virtual Design and Testing
• Preliminary Design Reviews
• Prototyping
• Testing a Prototype
• Presenting the Process and Results
• Project Management
• Documenting an Engineering Design Process
• Teamwork and Professional Skills
• Problem Identification and Justification
• Research
• Intellectual Property
• Design Requirements
• Project Proposals
• Design
• Virtual Design and Testing
• Preliminary Design Reviews
• Prototyping
• Testing a Prototype
• Presenting the Process and Results