The materials we used are…
Three pipes
Duct tape
Rocks
Fabric
Cups
The problem we were trying to solve was filtering water, because we were “stuck on an island”. The circumstance was, using only the things “washed up on shore”.
Engineering is important because it is a job and if we don’t have engineering, we will have no houses and no one will or could solve our problems or problems that we, humans caused. In the end, we will have no buildings and no houses.
A challenge we had was time, because we only had two days for building, testing, and developing, we did not get to develop our model. This model was built for testing which worked best, rocks or fabric. In the end, it both worked pretty well to filter the water although the fabric worked a little bit better, so why not combine it? Then the second model was created, this was the hard part, the time used wasn’t a lot, but we never got a chance to test it and it was broken apart due to our bad time management.
We chose this design because it was great for testing and it combined our group’s ideas. It works by just pouring water in carefully, then you just wait for the fabric/rocks to filter it.
The design we made was pretty successful, because we got the dirt out of the water, but I think we could’ve done better with the materials we were offered.
I would change everything and perhaps, try new materials, change the whole model and add in more materials that also work good.
