Top-down and bottom-up design

to glide down to elongate flight time. I started out researching different bottle rocket designs to find what would work best. While researching, I found that having a slimmer bottle on top of the base bottle, versus having two regular sized soda bottles would be more aerodynamic and would allow me to give the rocket a more “bullet” shaped body. When looking at fins, those with larger fins worked more efficiently than those with smaller fins. Those fins that were slimmer toward the top and…

Introduction: The bridge lab project was based on the given scenario in which a reliable bridge needed to be constructed over a river in order to alleviate traffic. The objective was to design a bridge to relieve traffic flow that was also safe, cost effective, and aesthetically pleasing. The constraints for this project included the budget and minimum height and width requirements. The max budget to purchase wood was $200, the minimum height at all points of the bridge was 3 inches, the…

Bridge Design: Edmond Liu My popsicle bridge is based on a truss design, which is a bridge design held up by a connected structure composed of many smaller pieces. In particular, my bridge is a variation of the Queen Post Truss Bridge, which has two central supporting posts to allow for a greater span allowing for larger contact points. (http://pghbridges.com/basics.htm)…

The postmodernism movement aimed at breaking the hold that modern design had on designers and their skills. As the author (Anon., 2015) said "something warmer, brighter and more experimental." Postmodernism was an outwardly exciting multifaceted style that ran from the bright to the ruinous, the ridiculous to the sumptuous. It conveyed a radical flexibility to craftsmanship and outline through signals that were regularly interesting, once in a while angry and periodically ridiculous. The greater…

Being.” Said chain would work like stairs or a “Ladder to all high designs” (Tillyard). Everything and everyone puts together this chain and holds it all together. This means that people, in a way, are all one because “One step broken, [and] the great scale’s destroyed” (Pope). The chain of being goes up like a ladder being best at the top but said in The Elizabethan World Picture, “The top of one class must link with the bottom…

manager, I would arrange a meeting with senior management officials and present the bottom-up (micro) estimates. However disagreeable the task may seem, upper management must be made aware that a detailed review of the two estimates indicates the project will finish 4 months past the planned finished date and 20% over the original budget. After presenting the inconsistencies between the top-down and the bottom-down estimates, I would present two choices to upper management: (a) consider the cost…

solve that problem in a matter of minutes. Engineers have invented a capsule shaped design that can efficiently chill any canned beverage within minutes. It's built with cheap yet durable materials, convenient, and compact The ChillPill’s sleek design lets it withstand the most intense situations. You can throw it down hills, drop it in lakes, smash it and it wouldn’t have a scratch on it. The Pill is made up of two layers of plastic. The outside layer is a harder and sleek plastic…

The teardrop design makes it much easier to balance these forces. the only forces exerted upon the riders are the force of gravity and the normal force The force of gravity is at all times directed downwards and the normal force is at all times directed perpendicular to the seat of the car. Since the orientation of the car on the track is continuously changing, the normal force is continuously changing its direction. Feelings of weightlessness and heaviness are associated with the normal…

Interface Design [Add usage scenario] 1. PocketMenu (Adapted from Pielot et al.’s paper, 2012, CHI) [Do I need to describe the original work first, and distinguish the difference? Or should I depict my adapted design directly?] Adapted from Pielot et al.’s work, PocketMenu, this design aims for providing a new type of menu interaction without the needing of visual feedback. The menu item stack is located along the bottom left edge of the screen vertically. Its precise location depends on the…

created this painting he had to have thought out the design greatly because it is bursting with plenty of elements and principles of design. The design aspects of this painting are great and lead you all over the place to give you a story and understanding of the painting. Starry Night has many design elements and principles. Van Gogh used the primary triad in this painting. Blue is heavily used throughout the whole piece. Yellow is used mostly in the top part of the painting and the accented…