1. Pringle Project Morgan Brauer, Matt Muhs, (Kyle Kilty, and Dylan Nelson)

2. Group Norms

3. Group Norms Respectful to ideas Disagree Respectfully and legitimately Share the work load No vulgar language Continue to improve ideas

4. Design Brief

5. Design Brief Pringle Project Problem Statement Design and create a package that can contain a Pringles chip. The chip must be sent through the mail while remaining intact. The chip must also be edible and be able to fit into a flat rate box. Higher grades will be awarded for smaller packaging.

6. Design Brief Pringle Project Design Statement Package to hold a Pringle Chip Safely Sent to another school Will be tested and evaluated Use of the design process Inventor (CAD) skills will be used Sent through a real business (The US Postal Service)

7. Design Brief Pringle Project Constraints Students will use one (regular) Pringles Potato Chip. The chip may not be altered The chip must be recoverable and edible when received by the partner school No pre-made Pringles containers should be used All packages must be sent via the US Postal Service – First Class Mail. Also be advised that there is a 3” x 5” limit on the size of the package

8. Design Brief Pringle Project Constraints Cont. Students will use one (regular) Pringles Potato Chip. The chip may not be altered The chip must be recoverable and edible when received by the partner school No pre-made Pringles containers should be used All packages must be sent via the US Postal Service – First Class Mail. Also be advised that there is a 3” x 5” limit on the size of the package

9. Design Brief Pringle Project Designers Morgan Brauer and Matt Muhs (Fremd) Kyle Kilty and Dylan Nelson (Conant) Client Company The teachers of the students receiving Pringles (Mr. Wedoff- FHS; Ms. Buss- CHS) Target Consumers The students receiving the Pringle Chip

10. Brainstorming

11. Engineer’sNotebook Pringle Project

12. Engineer’sNotebook Pringle Project

13. Research

14. Research Pringle Project Shipping and Packaging Through United States Postal Service Flat Rate: Envelope: Small: Medium: Large: Priority Mail: $11.95 Able to get their faster

15. Research Pricing:

16. Research

18. MOST IMPORTANT!!!

20. Produced by Procter and Gamble

21. Introduced in 1968

22. Saddle shape is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid

23. 42% potato content

24. Remainder being wheat, starch, flours, corn, rice, vegetable oils, and emulsifier

26. Solutions

27. 3 Viable Solutions Pringle Project Yellow Wave: Pringle Gray Box: Customized Box White Stars: Crumbled Newspaper Brown Rectangle: Box

28. 3 Viable Solutions Pringle Project Yellow Wave: Pringle Red Cylinder: Pop Can White Stars: Cotton Balls Brown Rectangle: Box

29. 3 Viable Solutions Pringle Project Yellow Wave: Pringle Green Square: Jell-o White Waves: Tissue Brown Rectangles: Boxes

30. Decision Matrix

31. Decision Matrix

32. Decision Matrix

33. MAKING THE PACKAGE

34. Add cotton under and above the Pringle Chip Wrap the Pringle in Aluminum Foil

35. Add cotton to the bottom of the bottom of the Monster Can Place the Pringle (in the foil) in the can and add more cotton on the sides of the Pringle (in the aluminum foil)

36. Place the top of the Monster Can onto the bottom so that the top overlaps the bottom Surround the can with cotton and tape it on with duct tape

37. THE FINAL PACKAGE!!!

38. TESTING

39. Squished horizontally Squished vertically

40. Dropped from 6 feet Notice: It falls the way it is dropped Dropped 4 different ways: Side 1 Side 4 Side 3 Side 2

41. Kicked at an average distance of 1.35 feet (through 5 trials where it must be between 1 and 3 feet) RESULT: A FULLY INTACT PRINGLE CHIP

42. MATERIALS

43. Pringle Chip

44. Monster Can- Top

45. Monster Can- Bottom

46. Assembly View

47. Exploded View COTTON!!! 4

49. Video

50. Citations Eco Garden http://www.usps.com/prices/usps_prices_printTable.html?csvFile=/prices/_csv/jan022011/Priority%20Mail-Com%20Base.csv&csvTitle=Pricing%20%28Commercial%20Base%20Prices%29&pfTitle=USPS%20-%20Priority%20Mail%20Commercial%20Base%20Prices http://secure.smilebox.com/ecom/openTheBox?sendevent=4e5467304e7a6b354e513d3d0d0a&campaign=blog_playback_link&blogview=true http://www.pringles.com/en_US/Pages/Home.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles