Schedule

Week 1 – Intro to Principles of Engineering

Date 8/31

• Topics: Intro to EDU 4480. Review and class policy
• Pre-class: Read course syllabus, download PDF version.
• In-class
  • Read the philosophy statement of this class by instructor (Sung, 2020)
  • Discuss our class philosophy and review the course syllabus.

Week 2 – What is engineering design?

Date 9/14

• Topic: Introduction to engineering design
• Pre-class: Read articles
  • What is Engineering? (Sung, 2020)
  • What is Design? (Sung, 2020)
  • Nature of engineering (Sung, 2020)
• In-class:
  • Create an online portfolio using Google Sites by Instructor (Sung, 2020)
  • Discuss what and why questions related to engineering, design, and engineering design.
• Assignment: [Essay ] What is engineering design? So what?

Week 3 – Physical Fabrication Basic

Date 9/21

• Topic: Physical Fabrication – tools and machines
• Pre-class: Watch lab safety video
• In-class
  • Watch YouTube video “General Lab Safety” and discuss lab safety rules.
    • What types of safety rules does the video discuss?
    • Why lab safety is so important?
    • Build our lab safety rules.
  • Sign safety contract
  • Demonstrate woodworking tools
    • Chop saw, circle saw, miter saw, drilling machines, and others.
    • Design a wood product
• Assignment
  • Read article “4 Secrets to Building a Portfolio That’ll Make Everyone Want to Hire You” by
    Aja Frost
  • [Lab report 1] post your design on your online portfolio

Week 4 – Physical Fabrication Woodworking 1

Date 9/29

• Topic: Physical Fabrication – woodworking 1
• Pre-class: Review your design
• In-class
  • Use Google Sketch-Up to Plan Woodworking Projects
  • Build the wood product (1/2)
• Optional resources
  • Woodworking project beginners by Noahw
  • Woodworking project list in Instructables
  • Most viewed woodworking project list on Instructables
  • Popular woodworking project list on Instructables

Week 5 – Physical Fabrication Woodworking 2

Date 10/5

• Topic: Physical Fabrication – woodworking 2
• Pre-class: Plan for your making project
• In-class: Build the wood product (2/2)
• Assignment: [Lab report 2] Post your project report on your online portfolio.

Week 6 – Arduino Basic

Date 10/14

Topic: Digital Fabrication 1 (Arduino Basic)

• Pre-class: Watch Arduino Intro video “What is Arduino?” by Programming Electronics Academy
• In-class:
  • Explain what Arduino is? What makes Arduino unique among other computing tools?
  • Setup Arduino development environment. Watch this video “Arduino IDE Setup Tutorial”
  • Analog input/output practices with the instructor.

Week 7 –  Arduino Advanced

Date 10/19

• Topic: Digital Fabrication 2 ( Arduino Advanced)
• Pre-class
  • Research the capability of Arduino of what we can do using Arduino.
  • Google with keyword “Arduino projects” “Arduino project ideas”.
  • Visit Instructables.com and search Arduino projects.
• In-class
  • Present Arduino projects that you found.
  • Discuss the working mechanism of Arduino on the projects.
  • Explore how you can use Arduino to solve real world problems.
  • Assignment: [Lab report 3] Post the research results on your online portfolio

 

Week 8 – 3D printing & Laser cutting

Date 10/26

• Topic: Digital Fabrication 3 (3D printing & Laser cutting)
• Pre-class
  • Watch 3D Printing video “What is 3D printing?” by Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge
  • Watch video “How does laser cutting work – Basic explained” by Trotec Laser
• In-class:
  • Quick 3D design & print on 3D printer
  • Demonstrate laser cutting
  • Discuss the capabilities of 3D printer & laser cutter
  • Assignment: [Lab report 4] Post the research outcomes on your online portfolio

Week 9 – Capstone design methodology

Date 11/2

• Topic: Capstone design project
• Pre-class: Read articles
  • Engineering Method (Lasser, 2013)
  • What is Engineering Design Process (Sung, 2020)
• In-class:
  • Team building
  • Build group norms
  • research methodology
  • Capstone research techniques

Week 10 – Capstone design: problem identification

Date 11/9

• Topic: Capstone design 1
• In-class:  Problem identification & ideation

Week 11 – Capstone design: ideation

Date 11/16

• Topic: Capstone design 2
• In-class: Ideation & solution development

Week 12 – Capstone design: building solutions 1

Date 11/23

• Topic: Capstone design 3
• In-class: Develop the selected solution
• Assignment: Project progress report on online portfolio

Week 13 – Capstone design: building solutions 2

Date 11/30

• Topic: Capstone design 4
• In-class: Develop the selected solution

Week 14 – Capstone design: building solutions 3

Date 12/7

• Topic: Capstone design 5
• In-class: Develop the selected solution
• Project Final due Dec 7 11 pm

Week 15 – Capstone design: final presentation

Date 12/14

• Topic: Final Presentation
• Presentation rules
  • Each team will be given 10 minutes of presentation and followed 5 minutes of Q & A session
  • Team will be required to present effectively. Watch the TED video “The secret structure of great talks” by Nancy Duarte.
  • Team members will be required to dress professionally.
  • Read article “How to dress professionally”: Business Dress Core Basics  written by Linda.

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