What I learned

Throughout the term, each of our individual designs changed quite significantly.  The main reason for our changes was because of failure from testing.  I believe that the testing portion of the design process is the most important step for it gives us the most information.  Some of the information given are failure points, durability, a transfer of forces.  With this data, our group was able to formulate a very effective truss.  Some specific design hints were that the design should have a large height in order to evenly distribute the force across more member.  This was derives through many tests.  Testing yields very helpful knowledge.