Design step 1 was all brainstorming and research. It was the step where we chose our problem, researched current solutions, and conducted a customer survey to create a demands and wishlist for the project.
Research
For more research and information about our project please check out our padlet.
Customer Survey and Demands/Wishlist
Reflection
This design step was fairly simple. It just took time and patience because research can get a bit monotonous sometimes. Something I thought that we did well was researching. We learned about different areas of engineering from books, looked up information about our problem: oil spills, and the various current solutions online. I think we were very thorough with our research. An improvement for this step could have been determination though. We did not send our customer survey to as many people as we could have. If we had sent it to more people, it would have made the results a more accurate representation of the population. Also I learned how to create a survey through google forms during this step.