Title: (Optional) Reverse engineer a product.
Course: Technology and Engineering Foundations (18 weeks) (21003-18) > Section: Analyzing Consumer Products

Reverse engineering should include

- analyzing a product that is composed of more than one material and has operational systems and/or subsystems
- disassembling the product
- documenting steps, parts, and processes using your engineering portfolio, which may include your engineering design journal and sketches, photographs, videos, etc.
- interpreting technical data and images.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is reverse engineering?
- What tools are necessary for reverse engineering?
- What information can be gathered by the reverse engineering process?
- What cataloging process can be used to maintain the order of parts?
- How do businesses decide which of their products they want to modify or redesign?
- How do consumers prompt business to modify or redesign a given product?