Unit 4.1 Innovation, Inc.: Engineering design, device/vessel model, CAD concept, prototype testing, disease prevention.
Your PLTW coursework: Principles of Biomedical Science ▸ Unit 4: Innovation, Inc. ▸ Lesson 4.1 Designing the Future ▸ "Activity 4.1.5 Drug Design Lab"
What to do if absent- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure, the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities. Find it in Clever with your Microsoft sign-in, right next to Schoology.
Apply the engineering design process to model and test a biomedical device, using constraints, criteria, and a to drive iteration.
- 1Define constraint, criterion, and prototype, then state one of each for your device.
- 2Sketch a CAD-style concept of your device, such as a or vessel model.
- 3Build a simple physical prototype from the available materials.
- 4Write a stating what you will measure and what result counts as success.
- 5Run your test, record the data, and note where the prototype met or missed its criteria.
- 6Describe one iteration you would make and how it should improve performance.
- • You will be able to state constraints and criteria for a biomedical device.
- • You will be able to build and test a prototype against a written .
- • You will be able to justify a design iteration from your test data.
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
One sentence recording the strongest opposing argument heard during the device innovation ethics debate.
Completed with at least three trial measurements, labeled independent and dependent variables, an average performance calculation, one measurement error source, and one test-setup limitation.
CER stating whether the prototype met its design goal, citing averaged trial data and variable-control evidence, explaining design strengths and flaws, proposing a specific iteration with a predicted result, and stating test-data limitations.
One sentence recording the strongest opposing argument heard during the frontier medicine ethics debate.
- Hook: a that saves a life started as a rough prototype that someone tested and improved.
- Today's goal: move through the design process from concept to a tested, improvable prototype.
- Monday bioethics debate ties in: how much testing is enough before a new device is used on patients?
- Reminder: your graded prototype, , and iteration notes are submitted on the class site.
Do this: Advance your PLTW PBS innovation benchmark by completing the device prototype, , and iteration notes in the online course shell.
- • Constraints and criteria define what a successful device must do and stay within.
- • Iteration uses test data to improve a prototype step by step.
- • A states the measurement and the result that counts as success.
- • Build and test a prototype against a written .
- • Justify a design iteration using recorded data.
📋 PLTW evidence due: the completed device prototype, , and iteration notes in the course shell.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment: this page only gives direction.
Your week at a glance. Check off each deliverable as you finish it, then submit so Mr. Mendoza can see how the class is pacing.
Use the code Mr. Mendoza gave you, not your name. Saved on this device.
| Day | Date | Focus | Key deliverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | Mon, Dec 14 | Drug formulation and pH | One sentence recording the strongest opposing argument heard during the device innovation ethics debate. |
| Tuesday | Tue, Dec 15 | Evidence for | |
| Wednesday | Wed, Dec 16 | Enteric coating lab | Completed data table with at least three trial measurements, labeled independent and dependent variables, an average performance calculation, one measurement error source, and one test-setup limitation. |
| Thursday | Thu, Dec 17 | Coating ratio CER | CER stating whether the prototype met its design goal, citing averaged trial data and variable-control evidence, explaining design strengths and flaws, proposing a specific iteration with a predicted result, and stating test-data limitations. |
| Friday | Fri, Dec 18 | Bioprospecting ethics debate | One sentence recording the strongest opposing argument heard during the frontier medicine ethics debate. |
- M: Philosophy for Kids / John Carroll bioethical debate
- W: lab / data or model work
- Th: analysis / CER or design revision
- F: submit tracker + weekly evidence
Due by week's end: Device test plan and data table.
This explainer accompanies the PLTW lab protocol: watch it before lab.
Most days, this class is your PLTW coursework: and PLTW is online and individual. So being out usually just means doing exactly what we did in class, from home.
Open Clever, then myPLTWHow to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Then use the one route named under Submit here on the day page. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.
You can't do those from home: do this instead: Teacher-posted data/model packet, same objective. Supplemental: Khan: experimental design/statistics; NIH biomedical engineering career pages.
Class still runs. A substitute will post today's plan: complete the online activity above; it's built to be self-guided. Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
PhET: simulations for engineering and physical testing
Hand-picked readings and interactives for this lesson, from authoritative open organizations and PLTW's own public course outline.