Weekly Update!

We have finally finished sketching out our solutions and making the matrix and figured out what was the best option between the three possible solutions, which was fences around the house. The Matrix took a little while to come up with the criteria for it but we came up with: cost, efficiency, resources, applicability, durability, Installation time, funding, accessibility, environmental impact, and community support. The group started doing research on fences and we started asking questions about what the fences would be made out of. So, the research turned into researching about the soil around the houses and how durable the fences would be during monsoon seasons. While doing all this, the professors and T.As came over to our table to see where we were in the project.

They gave us insight about our solution and the problem we chose and how we have to explain how we got to one point to the another point, and because of that, we changed our engineering design and decided to do the Monitoring bracelets instead. Wednesday, we spend all class trying to come up with how the bracelet would work. We first decided on have the bracelet have a GPS embedded into the bracelet and then there would be a buzzer the parent would have and it would buzz when the child leaves the house and gets too close to the water. We were talked to again to clear up about what our problem was and what our solution was about the problem and learned that we should look up online about simple circuits. We would have to demonstrate how our engineering component would work. Next week, we would be doing more research on how to do a circuit, come up with an idea of what the design of the bracelet should look like, how its going to work, and see if we are still considering using GPS or something completely different.

Weekly Update!

This week, the group has worked on a matrix to figure out which problem to tackle on.The problems were caretakers were too occupied to watch the kids, water, the kids don’t know how to swim, lack of barriers, and children can drown days later due to residual effects. We all did research on the problems and we put that together in a word document and used that information to figure out the possible problems with the matrix. The problem the group chose was the lack of barriers. We have came up with three possible solutions which are; barriers separating land and water, fences around the home, and monitoring bracelets. In order for use to pick the best of the three solutions, we must do more research on those three possible solutions and then do another matrix to find the best solution.