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Module 0: Engineering Design Process
Every competitive robot starts as a pile of requirements hidden inside a rulebook. This module covers how engineering teams read the game, write down what the robot must do, and generate concepts worth prototyping. Turn a game manual into requirements, constraints, and concepts before anyone cuts metal.
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Lesson Roadmap
0.1 · Design CycleLesson 0.1: The Engineering Design Cycle and Why It LoopsOpen0.2 · Reading the GameLesson 0.2: Reading a Game Manual Like an EngineerOpen0.3 · RequirementsLesson 0.3: Writing Requirements and Separating Them From ConstraintsOpen0.4 · Concept GenerationLesson 0.4: Generating and Narrowing Robot ConceptsOpenModule 0 · Mastery QuizModule 0 Mastery Quiz: Engineering Design ProcessOpen
What This Unit Covers
Describe the engineering design cycle and explain why it loops instead of ending.
Pull scoring actions, cycle times, and penalties out of a game manual and restate them as robot requirements.
Separate a hard constraint you cannot negotiate from a preference your team chose.
Generate several distinct concepts before committing to one, and record why the others were set aside.
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