Why is engineering important?

Engineering is important because it helps you be successful as a scientist and a builder. If you can’t engineer, you probably can’t solve some of the problems that occur in real life.

 

What was your challenge?

Our challenge was choosing the type of fabric that best filters the water, and also making it less dirty.

 

Why did you choose that design?

We chose this design because we used 3 types of fabric so that it can filter and clean the water better.

How does it work?

  1. Pour the water in to the wire mesh
  2. The water will flow into the two other fabrics
  3. Then the purified water will come out from the bottom into a cup
  4. The paper towel will filter the water once more into another cup.

 

Was your design successful?

I think our first design wasn’t really successful because the dirty water went through a hole in the fabric instead of filtering the water. The filtered water turned out still with some dirt streaks in it.

 

How might you change your apparatus if had the opportunity? (If no redesign)

We redesigned it without the holes, we also made the wire mesh bigger so that it can carry more dirt and rocks

 

(If redesign) Was your redesign successful?

Me and my partner’s second design was better than the first one because the first one went through 2 layers of fabric but the second one went through 3.