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Investigating Engineering Design 1
This starter activity can be used as an introduction to reverse engineering. Using the presentation Earphones and Headphones, students are asked to identify the product and its function. They consider the following questions:
• Identify the target audience (considering age range, gender, lifestyle, demographic) for three of the earphones
• Why are there so many different types and styles of earphones, all providing a similar function?
• What is more important in relation to earphones, form or function?
The responses are used stimulate a discussion about changes over the last 100 years, in style, materials, aesthetics and electronics.
This resource, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), can be used as a stand-alone activity or with the other resources in the Sound Design collection.
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