Problem Solving Process
How do you design, test, and build a small and completely edible boat that propels itself through your cocktail? This is a complicated problem, but it--and many other problems like it--can be solved systematically, by breaking the problem down into several key phases. In this video, we'll explore how two MIT graduate students created these Cocktail Cruisers. This video is part of the Problem Solving video series. Problem--solving skills, in combination with an understanding of the natural and human-made world, are critical to the design and optimization of systems and processes. Hi, my name is Lisa Burton and I am Nadia Cheng. We are graduate students in Peko Hosoi's lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Today, we're going to tell you about a class project that we worked on that turned into a product called cocktail cruisers. After watching this video, you should be able to identify the steps of the problem solving process and recognize that ...