| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgement | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Invention, Creativity, Engagement | p. 13 |
| Inventing, Inventions and Design | p. 17 |
| An Instructive Example: The Can Opener | p. 23 |
| Cognitive Science, Creativity and Analysis in Design | p. 31 |
| Engagement and Learning | p. 38 |
| Some Examples of Generic MaT Projects in Engineering Design | p. 42 |
| The Benefits and Costs of MaT Projects | p. 45 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 52 |
| The Genesis and Development of MaT Projects | p. 53 |
| MaT Projects Using Static Structures | p. 53 |
| Design for Axial Loading (Struts) | p. 54 |
| Design for Transverse Loading (beams) | p. 55 |
| MaT Projects Designed to Use Moving and Dynamic Devices | p. 58 |
| Energy Sources | p. 58 |
| Potential Performance Requirements and Variables | p. 59 |
| Wheeled Vehicles | p. 59 |
| Vehicles Designed to travel in or Over Water | p. 61 |
| Airborne Vehicles | p. 63 |
| Devices with Mixed Performance Requirements | p. 63 |
| Some Key Materials of Construction | p. 65 |
| Level of Difficulty and Complexity of Projects | p. 66 |
| Team Dynamics | p. 70 |
| Morphology of MaT Projects | p. 71 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 76 |
| Properties and Application of Some Unconventional Engineering Materials | p. 77 |
| Balsa Wood | p. 78 |
| Mechanical Properties | p. 80 |
| Newsprint | p. 82 |
| Mechanical Properties of Paper | p. 88 |
| Polymers, Composites, and Other Strange Structural Materials | p. 89 |
| Rigid Polyurethane Foam and Foamcore | p. 89 |
| Bamboo Skewers | p. 90 |
| Drinking Straws, Spaghetti | p. 91 |
| Cotton Thread | p. 92 |
| Establishing Mechanical Properties for Materials Used in MaT Model Construction | p. 93 |
| Testing Balsa Wood | p. 93 |
| Testing Newsprint | p. 95 |
| Testing of Other Unconventional Structural Materials | p. 96 |
| Some Additional Notes on Testing and Failure Behaviour | p. 97 |
| Adhesives | p. 98 |
| Test Results for Mechanical Properties of MaT Project Construction Materials | p. 101 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 106 |
| MaT Projects for Static Load-bearing Structures | p. 107 |
| Sample MaT Project Problems and Presentation | p. 107 |
| Case Examples of Static MaT Projects | p. 113 |
| Balsa Bridge | p. 113 |
| Balsa Structure | p. 116 |
| Paper Column | p. 118 |
| Urethane Foam Structure | p. 122 |
| Supplementary Opportunities for Static MaT Projects | p. 125 |
| Chapter Summary and Caveats | p. 128 |
| Dynamic MaT Projects: Things That Go "Bump" | p. 129 |
| Energy Sources and Their Measurement | p. 130 |
| Thermal Energy | p. 130 |
| Potential Energy (Gravity Driven) | p. 132 |
| Kinetic Energy | p. 133 |
| Elastic Energy | p. 135 |
| Electrical Energy Sources | p. 139 |
| A Panoply of Dynamic MaT Projects | p. 142 |
| Fetch and Carry MaT Projects | p. 143 |
| Navigationally Challenged Vehicles | p. 144 |
| "How Can it be Done?" Projects | p. 144 |
| Administration and Conduct of Dynamic MaT Projects | p. 145 |
| Case studies of Dynamic MaT Projects | p. 149 |
| Experimental Evaluation of Energy Available from Various Sources Energy from Toy Rubber Balloons and Mousetraps | p. 150 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 154 |
| Case Examples of Dynamic MaT Projects | p. 155 |
| Projects with Special Focus on Energy Capture and Conversion | p. 156 |
| Projects Involving Water-based Transport | p. 156 |
| Projects Using Ground Transport | p. 157 |
| Airborne MaT Projects | p. 157 |
| A Generic MaT Project Case Example A Beverage Can Roller (ABC) | p. 157 |
| Sample Entries | p. 159 |
| Three More Documented Case Examples | p. 168 |
| Case Example 2 - Walking on Water (Aquaped) | p. 168 |
| Case Example 3 - One Candle-power Engine (OCPE) | p. 176 |
| Case Example 4 - Mechanical Frog (JFC) | p. 186 |
| A Brief Description of Other MaT Projects | p. 193 |
| Daring Young Designers and Flying-machines (DYDaF) | p. 193 |
| Payloads on Pools (PoP) | p. 194 |
| Projects Involving Direct Head-to-head Contests (Drawbar Pull) | p. 196 |
| Projects Using Various Novel Forms of Energy | p. 197 |
| Climbing and Jumping MaT Projects | p. 197 |
| Some Concluding Notes on Design Guidance and Engagement | p. 201 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 202 |
| Concluding Notes and Some "CUTIEs" | p. 203 |
| CUTIE 1: Temperature-controlled Soldering Iron | p. 204 |
| CUTIE 2: Galileo's Thermometer | p. 205 |
| CUTIE 3: Tensegrity Structures | p. 207 |
| CUTIE 4: Renewable Energy Sources | p. 209 |
| Wind Farms | p. 209 |
| Energy from the Ocean | p. 209 |
| Demonstration of Physics Principles | p. 211 |
| MaT Project Metaphor | p. 211 |
| Some Further Interesting Problems | p. 218 |
| The Shape of Things | p. 219 |
| The Way Things Work | p. 221 |
| Limits of Performance | p. 223 |
| Some Not-so-clever Inventions | p. 223 |
| Creative Ideas and Patents | p. 225 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 228 |
| References and Bibliography | p. 229 |
| Engineering Case Library | p. 241 |
| Readings for MaT Project Planning | p. 242 |
| A Primer on Mechanics | p. 243 |
| Statics | p. 243 |
| Forces | p. 243 |
| Planar Pinned Structures | p. 245 |
| Bending | p. 248 |
| Torsion | p. 251 |
| Dynamics | p. 252 |
| Force and Acceleration | p. 252 |
| Work and Energy | p. 254 |
| Very Elementary Gas Dynamics | p. 257 |
| Newton or Aristotle? | p. 261 |
| Units of Measurement and Conversion Factors | p. 263 |
| Systems of Measurement and Standardisation | p. 264 |
| The Seven Fundamental SI Units | p. 265 |
| Some Derived Units and Dimensions | p. 265 |
| Conversion Factors | p. 268 |
| Some Properties of Plane Sections and Answers to Selected Exercises | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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