2022 Design Challenges Available
A document containing a brief description of the TEK8 program and all the facilitator’s guides and the student handouts for all of the 2022 design challenges is available here. The guides and videos are also available by clicking on each design challenge in the table below. In 2020 a TEK8 Design Storyboard was developed as a tool to help students record their progress through the design process.
| Title | Description | Engineering Area |
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Design a sleeve device that can be used to measure the angle of their arm. |
Biomedical Engineering | |
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Design an anemometer that can measure wind speed and direction. |
Environmental (Civil) Engineering | |
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Design a flux tower that is able to survive environmental conditions. |
Environmental (Civil) Engineering | |
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Design a camera system that can withstand vibrations in the system. |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
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Design an algorithm that that can sort images into predetermined groups. |
Computer Science and Engineering | |
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Design a flood barrier to protect a home from rising water levels. |
Environmental (Civil) Engineering | |
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Using an inclusive approach to engineering, students will design a “D-Inclusion Lamp”. |
Engineering Education | |
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Design a “zeolite” that is able to capture the most molecules possible. |
Chemical Engineering | |
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Redesign a nose cone of an aircraft to better withstand collisions with drones. |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
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Design a Balsa Wood plane that is able to fly prescribed distance and land without breaking. |
Aerospace Engineering | |
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Starting with a broken kidney component (nephron), repair it so it can filter and clean “blood”. |
Biomedical Engineering | |
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Design effective structures to deliver the DNA to the cancer cells. Students must fold a structure using the provided materials that can hold the cancer drugs and attach to the cancer cells. |
Biomedical Engineering | |
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Design a device that can guide air from an air mattress pump to move green pom-poms in an assortment of colorful pom-poms. |
Environmental (Civil) Engineering | |
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Design a “gas turbine” that is able to spin a sufficient speed without rubbing the casing. |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
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Design a sensor or device that can indicate when vibration is present. |
Mechanical Engineering | |
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Students will design a wetland that is able to protect a building from flood conditions. |
Environmental (Civil) Engineering |
