The Tower Design and Build Workshop

Terry Bahill
Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0020, USA
terry@sie.arizona.edu
© 1993-2004 Bahill

Motorola University has developed a laboratory exercise to highlight many aspects of Systems Engineering. Students are asked to design and build a tower out of Tinkertoy® parts. System requirements will be given at the beginning of the exercise.

To enhance your learning potential, Please do NOT discuss this exercise with friends who did it last year.

Prerequisite: knowledge of Systems Engineering.

Enrollment is limited, so pre-registration is essential.

Reference [55]. This activity is designed for engineers. It requires an overhead projector. This exercise takes two hours. This exercise must be planned a month or two in advance. Enrollment is limited to 40 people.