Engineering Design Project
A simple slideshow of our project created in Minecraft.
earthquake_safety_in_schools.pptm | |
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This is the powerpoint of our creative engineering project.
Description:
For this project the class was tasked to research a major problem in the world and create a prototype of a solution (or in our case, a beta version). My group (after much deliberation decided to focus on earthquake and general natural disaster safety. So we took a couple days, after choosing earthquakes and tsunamis to defend against, to researched population density in areas that are natural disaster prone and decided to lower our concentration to schools as it would be too difficult to build a cost efficient building for a group larger than 200. Natural disasters kill thousands every year, just the 2010 Haiti earthquake killed over 300,000 people. We hope to lower this amount as much as possible, especially with the younger generation.
THE PLAN:
Modify gyms to protect children and staff from natural disasters. We will doing this by either changing or replacing the building with stronger more resilient/flexible materials. We will also add base isolation to the building.
Base Isolation: rubber pads placed underneath buildings at certain joints in order to separate it completely from the ground. In earthquakes it allows the building to move separately from the rest of the ground so it stays upright and never topples.
My Reflections:
I wish we had done a couple things better. One would have been the research. We forgot to estimate some of the costs and advertisement of our project. Also during our presentation, the laptop we were using to host our Minecraft server fell asleep, temporarily delaying the project and making a bit of an awkward moment for us.