CREATIVE ENGINEERING PROJECT
Introduction:
For our creative engineering project, we decided to go with the HANS device. HANS stands for Head and Neck Support Device. As you can see in the video below you can see that the HANS helps your head from whiplash. The man on the right has HANS and the driver doesn't. The driver's head whips violently. This is what we tried to stop. We had many other ideas including a fuel cut-off switch and a front clip. The front clip was diverted because what if it came off mid-drive and the engine flew from under the car? That wouldn't be good! the other one wouldn't work because of the what ifs. What if it was accidentally hit and the car stopped in the middle in the road? What if the gas switch didn't work and the fuel leaked out and lit on fire and made the car blew up and killed the driver? Those would be a couple bad outcomes.
Reflection:
Throughout the project there were some hills we had to go over and some holes to dig out of. We also had some straightaways to open up on. We first had a problem figuring out what problem we had to figure out right at the beginning. We had many other ideas including department regulations for fish and game, money spending in the US, and problems for California's drought. Being a lifelong NASCAR fan I know that there have been many racing related accidents leading to death from basic skull fractures. The racing organizations have made these HANS devices (head and neck support) which we thought would be a good idea. Another hole was we only had three minds instead of four. Usually people would like 3 people, sometimes I do, but the more the better for this project. But the best part of this project was making our video. We were a little behind and we started to get our game faces on perform to our level of understanding that we had. We made it and it turned out great. Yet, the last day before the presentation, I checked my computer which crashed, losing 1/5 of our presentation. Luckily we fixed it with no time to spare. I think we had a good presentation even though one of our members didn't want to present. We could've gotten our head together earlier and got it done and perfected it, but we did not. Overall, I liked our project and the HANS Device worked out well. As you can see below, the HANS Device STEM edition video is below.