Party Games... Engineering Consequences
Everyone is given a pen and a sheet of paper on the top of which is the name of a ‘famous’ engineer (see following appendix for ideas!) such as…
* Thomas Telford
the famous civil engineer
* George Stevenson
the famous mechanical engineer
* James Watt
the famous mechanical engineer
* Isambard Kingdom Brunel
the famous civil engineer
* John Logie Baird
the famous electrical engineer
* James Dyson
the famous mechanical engineer
* Leo Hendrik Baekeland
the famous chemical engineer
* Elizabeth Gregory MacGill
the famous aeronautical engineer
Everyone now writes what their respective engineer decided to build/design and then folds the top of the paper over and passes it onto the next person. Everyone now writes what material(s) the engineer decided to build with, folds and passes as before. The game goes on until everyone has written:
1. What the engineer decided to build/design
2. The materials used
3. How the materials were fixed together
4. The place where the construction occurred
5. How long it took to build
6. Who presided over the opening ceremony (a celebrity drawn from any era!)
7. What happened when the object constructed was declared open
8. What the world said.
When everyone has written down whatever it was that the world said, they pass their paper on one more time and take it in turn to read out what is on their paper. Because most players plump for the ridiculous or quirky, the results are usually quite amusing. e.g. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous civil engineer, built the world’s fastest flushing toilet… using an old sheet and a length of elastic… fixed together with string… at the checkout at ASDA … it took 12 years, 3 months, four days, three hours, twelve minutes and thirty seven seconds to build …and it was declared open by Kylie Minogue… it ran very smoothly.. and the world said ‘Marmalade!’
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