The Engineering Design Process

We'll be using the following resources today:

• Grey Wolf Innovations
• NASA

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Excel - lent

Today we're going to start an Activity involving Microsoft Excel.

Go to My Computer/Shared/PLTW/Howard POE/Activity2_3a_Graphs_Using_Excel.doc


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Excel

• Table
• Cell
• Chart
• Data
• Graph
• Histogram
• Line Graph
• Pictograph
• Pie Chart
• Plotting
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Spreadsheet
• Statistics
• Table

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Alphabet of Linez Quiz

What it is...

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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Chapter 1 Terms

Here are the terms that we should be familiar with from Chapter 1:

• ABET, Inc.
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• Automation
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• Bronze Age
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• Chronological
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• Engineering
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• Engineering Technology
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• Experimentation
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• Fulcrum
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• Hypothesis
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• Inclined Plane
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• Industrial Age
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• Information Age
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• Innovation
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• Iron Age
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• Role Model
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• Screw
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• Space Age
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• Stone Age
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• Synthetic
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• Theory
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• Time Line
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• Benchmark
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• Constraints
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• Contribution
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• Gender-Bias
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• Innovation
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• Interactive
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• Interpersonal Skills
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• Racial-Bias
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• Solution
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• Stereotyping
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• Systematic
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• TQM
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• Working Relationship
• Conflict Of Interest
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• Ethics
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• Public Welfare
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• Dilemma
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• Job Function
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• Traditional
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• Discipline
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• Non-Traditional
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• Whistle Blowing

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Speak Your Piece

Answer the following in a comment to this post:

1.) What is the most important invention before year 1 AD? Why?

2.) What is the most important invention between 1 AD and 1900 AD? Why?

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Lesson 1.1

DUE TUESDAY (9.01.09)

Answer the following:

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!!!

This is the class Blog Page for PLTW - Principles of Engineering.

Check here daily for precious baubles of enlightenment.

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Course Survey

HERE'S THE LINK to the survey.

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Materials Vocab

Define the following terms in a comment to this blog.

Save a copy for yourself for reference. Due Friday.

Material Categories:

• Alloy
  
• Carbide
  
• Ceramics
  
• Composite
  
• Compound
  
• Elastomers
  
• Element
  
• Ferrous
  
• Metal
  
• Nitride
  
• Organic
  
• Oxide
  
• Polymer
  
• Thermoplastic
  
• Thermoset

Material Properties:

• 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
  

Be prepared for a quiz later this week!

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Material Properties

For each of the following material categories, provide 5 examples.

• Organics
• Metals
• Alloys
• Polymers
• Ceramics
• Composites

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Follow these links...

Please follow THESE INSTRUCTIONS.... username: ssca, password: ssca.

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Welcome Back!

Hope that you all had a good break.

We're going to be spending a few more days studying statics.

WooHoo!

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Thank an Engineer

After I torture you with another statics problem, we're gonna check out these videos...

• MP3's
  
• Texting
• Wireless
• This guy suffered 8 assasination attempts before the man got him...

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StaticsTube

If you can understand and expound upon the ideas in THIS VIDEO, then you have my permission to sleep in class tomorrow.

And I'm definiately joking about the sleeping part.

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Mo' Statics

Here's the link to that online calculator, make sure you switch from radians to degrees.

Here's a link to an online triangle solver, for right angles, set Angle C to 90 deg. 

Today, we're reviewing the math review sheet and beginning an activity on free-body diagrams. 

Woot!

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Statics

You have all of class today to work on the Activity that was handed out yesterday.

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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
  

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Robo-Wrapup

We're reaching the end of our robotics studies. 

Make sure that you have all Activities turned in (4.4a-4.5h)...

...BY THURSDAY!!!

Today is our last day to finish up with the Sumo cars.

Friday is when we'll actually be testing the cars.

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Activate

We should/ could be getting through Activity 4.5f today if we really work quickly. 

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RoboPro

Today we're starting the RoboPro Tutorials...

Fischertechnik

Fischertechniks

Check this out...

This too...


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I ROBOT

We're starting our unit on control systems today.

The circuit assignment is due tomorrow.


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Electricity

Let's solve this circuit.


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