Contents
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
- 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
- Watch YouTube video “General Lab Safety” and discuss lab safety rules.
- 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
- Read article “4 Secrets to Building a Portfolio That’ll Make Everyone Want to Hire You” by
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
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
- 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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