Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Simple Machine Videos
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Marble Sorter - Submitted Materials
· Cover Page - Project title, your name, partner's name, course name, date, etc.?
· Initial sketches – You will conceptualize your design and prepare a quality sketch of your system. This will be the concept you develop to completion.
· Program Narrative – A written step-by-step description of how you want your team’s marble sorter to operate. Include your motor ports, switch ports, analog input ports and associated values. Be as detailed as possible.
· Daily Entries – Every day keep track of your progress. Your entries must be made in the following form.
o Date:
o Tasks yet to be addressed
o Tasks Accomplished
· Print out of Program – A copy of the RoboPro program, and each subroutine in that program, will be copied to Word. A written description of each part of the program will need to be included.
· Device Pictures - You must include a series of photographs of your marble sorter.
o Side - Front - Top
o Orthographic
· Reflection - Write a one page reflection about your design. What worked well? What was problematic? What would you change? How well did your group work together?
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
IRobot
Answer the following questions by Monday morning:
- 1.) If in the future machines have the ability to reason, be self-aware and have feelings, then what makes a human being a human being, and a robot a robot?
- 2.) If you could have a robot that would do any task you like, a companion to do all the work that you prefer not to, would you? And if so, how do you think this might affect you as a person?
- 3.) Are there any kind of robots that shouldn't be created? Or that you wouldn't want to see created? Why?
- 4.) Automation and the development of new technologies like robots is viewed by most people as inevitable. But many workers who lose their jobs consider this business practice unfair. Do you think the development of new technologies, and their implementation, is inevitable? What, if anything, should we as a society do for those people who lose their jobs?
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Robotics Tutorials
Monday, September 21, 2009
Solar Power
- What university is conducting this research?
- What is the efficiency of "old" solar cells?
- What is a photon?
- Why is this type of solar cell not ready for commercial production?
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Excel - lent
Go to My Computer/Shared/PLTW/Howard POE/Activity2_3a_Graphs_Using_Excel.doc
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Excel
- Table
- Cell
- Chart
- Data
- Graph
- Histogram
- Line Graph
- Pictograph
- Pie Chart
- Plotting
- Qualitative
- Quantitative
- Spreadsheet
- Statistics
- Table
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
SketchesSketchesSketches
Answer the following:
1. How do they know Leonardo Da Vinci came up with the concepts of the parachute and helicopter?
2. The mayor of your town has asked you and two friends to design a sitting area in the town park. He would like to speak with you next week about your concepts. What types of sketches should you bring to the meeting to be sure he understands your ideas?
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Chapter 1 Terms
- ABET, Inc.
- Automation
- Bronze Age
- Chronological
- Engineering
- Engineering Technology
- Experimentation
- Fulcrum
- Hypothesis
- Inclined Plane
- Industrial Age
- Information Age
- Innovation
- Iron Age
- Role Model
- Screw
- Space Age
- Stone Age
- Synthetic
- Theory
- Time Line
- Benchmark
- Constraints
- Contribution
- Gender-Bias
- Innovation
- Interactive
- Interpersonal Skills
- Racial-Bias
- Solution
- Stereotyping
- Systematic
- TQM
- Working Relationship
- Conflict Of Interest
- Ethics
- Public Welfare
- Dilemma
- Job Function
- Traditional
- Discipline
- Non-Traditional
- Whistle Blowing
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Speak Your Piece
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Lesson 1.1
1. In what ways did prehistoric engineers overcome limitations of the time to perform the same functions as modern engineers?
2. Which engineering feat of the twentieth century do you feel was the most significant and what were some of the underlying principles that finally made it possible?
3. Which areas of current research do you think are going to have the greatest impact in the next ten years and how will that research affect current problems?
4. What were the attributes possessed by early engineers that would help you become a successful engineer today?
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POE 2009-2010
Welcome Back!!!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Materials Vocab
- Alloy
- Carbide
- Ceramics
- Composite
- Compound
- Elastomers
- Element
- Ferrous
- Metal
- Nitride
- Organic
- Oxide
- Polymer
- Thermoplastic
- Thermoset
- Acoustical
- Brittle
- Chemical
- Composite
- Compression
- Creep
- Crystalline
- Density
- Dimensional
- Ductility
- Electrical
- Fatigue
- Force
- Fracture
- Grain Size
- Gravity
- Hardness
- Inclusion
- Load
- Magnetic
- Mechanical
- Optical
- Phase
- Physical
- Porosity
- Resistance
- Spatial Configuration
- Strain
- Stress
- Tensile
- Thermal
- Toughness
Material Properties
- Organics
- Metals
- Alloys
- Polymers
- Ceramics
- Composites
Monday, April 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Welcome Back!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thank an Engineer
Monday, April 6, 2009
StaticsTube
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Mo' Statics
Here's the link to that online calculator, make sure you switch from radians to degrees.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Statics
Define the following terms related to statics:
- Abutment
- Arch Bridge
- Beam Bridge
- Cable Stayed Bridge
- Compression
- Equilibrium
- Force
- Free Body Diagram
- Friction
- Impending Motion
- Mass
- Moments
- Newton's Laws
- Resultant
- Scalar Quantity
- Suspension Bridge
- Tension
- Vector Quantity
- Weight