DAY 1 |
Day 1 Introductions & Framing the Journey
10:00 am to 3:30 pm
Stanford Bioengineering Department
Shriram Center, Room 250 and Teaching Lab
Stanford Bioengineering Department
Shriram Center, Room 250 and Teaching Lab
Morning Bioengineering
10:00am to 10:45am
Introductions. What are we doing and why? Icebreaker activity w/ pasteurizing substrates. Students bring in substrates from their local waste streams and discuss why they brought the material and how it represents an aspect of their community. These will be placed in mesh bags (or sterilized jars) to pasteurize in crock pot or pressure cooker. These pasteurized materials will be used in the second half of the workshop.
Concepts and engineering practices 10:45am-12:30pm
Build a model of a playground (10 minutes to build, 10 minutes discussion) Build a playground using playdoh and string, etc.
Engineering WITH biology (30 minutes)
Introductions. What are we doing and why? Icebreaker activity w/ pasteurizing substrates. Students bring in substrates from their local waste streams and discuss why they brought the material and how it represents an aspect of their community. These will be placed in mesh bags (or sterilized jars) to pasteurize in crock pot or pressure cooker. These pasteurized materials will be used in the second half of the workshop.
Concepts and engineering practices 10:45am-12:30pm
Build a model of a playground (10 minutes to build, 10 minutes discussion) Build a playground using playdoh and string, etc.
- What things did you consider? Constraints?
- How might your design change depending on where and for whom you are building your park?
- Have you ever wished you had more input on the design of something you use?
- Why is it important to engage stakeholders in design?
- Gloves.
- Standard tests.
- Engineering culture.
- Design, build, test in engineering. (Front loaded video)
- So far you’ve done design, build, test already.
- So far you’ve done design, build, test already.
- Who is an engineer?
- Draw an engineer. Take 2-3 minutes to make a sketch of what you imagine as a bioengineer. Discussion: can you see yourself as a bioengineer? Have a slide with traditional and non-traditional examples of bioengineers. Highlight that all are bioengineers. Example pictures could be brought up in later days to learn more about them.
- Images of bioengineers.
Engineering WITH biology (30 minutes)
- Ancient Chinese farming systems, tree bridge, xinampa, milpa, mycelium materials, kombucha materials. Collaborative research using laptops.
- Possible activity: Engineering Spotlight. Each student is given an example to learn about, either with research online (if have internet access), or given a 1-2 pg document about that example. Student answers a few questions individually to outline how something works or its importance. Then, present the example to the rest of the class so everyone learns a little bit about all of these examples.
- Sonia: talk for 5 min about mycelium research (continue conversation in second half of day when we are working with mycelium)
Lunch
12 pm- 1:15 pm Workshop participants share displays of their bioengineering and biomaterial explorations. (optional) We may be referencing these in afternoon workshops, as well.
Afternoon Biomaterial Tinkering
1:15- 3:00
Journals Campers will decorate their journal covers with bio plastic and bacterial cellulose.
Fungal Biomaterial Quilt Arrays/ Designing with locally source substrates. Exploring 3D printing & vacuum forming to create molds for an array of mycelium growths. We will inoculate the pasteurizing substrates from the morning with a range of mushroom fungi. We will be using pre-innoculated substrate to press into vacuum mold forms with a layer of mesh over the top. The first half of workshop will be creating the vacuum form molds.
Journals Campers will decorate their journal covers with bio plastic and bacterial cellulose.
Fungal Biomaterial Quilt Arrays/ Designing with locally source substrates. Exploring 3D printing & vacuum forming to create molds for an array of mycelium growths. We will inoculate the pasteurizing substrates from the morning with a range of mushroom fungi. We will be using pre-innoculated substrate to press into vacuum mold forms with a layer of mesh over the top. The first half of workshop will be creating the vacuum form molds.
3:00-3:30 Clean up
Resources for Day 1
Morning Resources:
links coming soon
Afternoon Resources:
links coming soon
Afternoon Resources:
- Student Project Guidesheet
- Vacuum forming and mycelium pressing workflow diagram
- Instructor Sheet
- Create an account in Tinkercad
- Tinkercad screencast step by step lesson for activity