Component Three

Innovating an improvement or new use

Task
One

Propose an original improvement or new use regarding your team's technical application.  Explain in detail how it works and provide a link to your design requirement.

Task
Two

Explain what economic impact your team's proposed improvement or new use would have as it relates to the problem you identified in Component One.

Task
Three

Identify and describe a company, federal agency or academic research laboratory that could carry out your team's proposed new improvement or new use. 

Task
Four

Using e-mail, obtain the opinion of a scientist or engineer about your team's proposed improvement or new use for the technical application. Add this information to your website by including the individual's name, organization, copies of the e-mail the team sent and the reply it received from its inquiry.