This video takes students through a real world problem solving process from start to finish. Students investigate the process of changing the shape of freeze-dried dog food patty from a cylinder to a square prism without changing the volume, density or weight of the patty’s materials. Will this change increase efficiency? Will this change decrease production cost?

In this lesson, students explore an analogy that helps them troubleshoot a problem in an electric circuit. They will then use computer simulations to reconstruct the problem and test other solutions.

In this lesson students will learn about food allergies and how food manufacturing companies, like McCain Foods, work hard to properly label foods and protect against cross contamination. Students will analyze data from allergen testing and make recommendations to improve cleaning procedures.

In this lesson, students develop and use models to explain the impacts of batter that is too thin or too thick in the manufacturing of McCain’s Mozzarella Cheese Sticks. They will then use the engineering design process to develop, test, and refine a method to test the viscosity of the batter.

In this lesson, students will learn about the different properties of paper towels and design a method for testing paper towel absorbency and strength.

In this lesson, students develop models for understanding of the paper recycling process and the important role they play in conserving and recycling our natural resources.

In this lesson, students will consider what it means to be a robot. They will also learn how programmers control robots to complete tasks and solve problems.

How are rolls of toilet paper produced? How many rolls of toilet paper can be made each day? In this video, you will calculate the area of a parent roll of tissue and the area of a roll of toilet paper. Using that information, you can calculate how many rolls of toilet paper can be made each day.

When a customer orders a fire truck from Pierce, they ask for specific equipment they want the truck to be able to carry. When engineers design the truck to the customer’s specifications, they need to be careful that the weight for all that equipment is not too heavy for the axles of the truck.

Axle weights are important for the following reasons. First of all, the suppliers of axles rate the carrying capacity of their axles so they don’t fail and that the brakes attached to the axle are sufficient. The second reason is that the Federal Government requires an OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer like Pierce to specify the rated axle capacities and they cannot be exceeded.

Manufacturers often need to calculate a measure of center to find a value that best represents the amount of production of their manufactured products. This value assists manufacturers in creating a production standard for the materials they are producing. A production standard is a benchmark used for measuring the production of the company. The unit of measurement used in a production standard indicates the normal level of performance for an industrial operation and is expressed as units per hour or units per day.

Companies use the Mean Absolute Deviation to assist in calculating an accurate measure of center with upper and lower thresholds. These thresholds allow manufacturers to consider modern production variations. By using MAD to calculate the thresholds, manufacturers offer a method to take the causes of different fluctuations in their hourly or daily production standards into account. This video and lesson show how companies calculate production standards and how they use measures of center and variation to create those standards.

What is a laser guided vehicle? How do they work? How can we program a laser guided vehicle? In this video, you will learn about laser guided vehicles and how to program them to work in your company. You will need to calculate distances and angles.