Overview
ECE 121-001 M3 - Engineering Design Process
Revision: 2 Revision Date: 15-Feb-2025
Engineering Design Process - Athlete Monitoring The Crimson Tide football program has asked the Integrated Center for Athletic and Sport Technology (ICAST - http://icast.eng.ua.edu/), a research unit of the University of Alabama, to develop proposals for wearable technologies to support athlete monitoring. The specific athlete monitoring needs that the team has identified include:
• Monitor the number and force of impacts to the head during training and competition;
• Monitor acceleration and maximum speeds during training and competition;
• Monitor body temperature and environmental conditions (air temperature and humidity) during training;
• Monitor water consumption of athletes throughout practice, games, and their daily living.
Before the football program financially supports any of the ICAST ideas to develop these technologies, they have asked for project proposals that outline the design process and engineering solutions. As a computer engineer that is on the ICAST team, you have been asked to prepare these details of the Engineering Design Process (specifically steps 1 through 3) for ONE of the potential ideas above. Instructions and Deliverables: The following instructions and questions are to help guide you through preparing the requested details. You will upload your answers to each of these questions on Blackboard. While you can work with a partner to discuss each question, both partners must submit their own answers written in their own words. For all short-answer questions you must use complete sentences with appropriate language for the course. Considering the Engineering Design Process:
1) Referring to the class notes, what are the 7 stages of the engineering design process? List them all and in your list bold the 3 steps that will be the focus of your ICAST proposal. 2) Which of the needs from the team will you be applying the engineering design process for this proposal?
• This will be a multiple-choice question on Blackboard for you to select