Week 4

Date 9/29

• Topic: Physical Fabrication – woodworking 1

Pre-class:

• Read article “4 Secrets to Building a Portfolio That’ll Make Everyone Want to Hire You” by
  Aja Frost
• Review your design
• Review your CAD design skill. If you need additional CAD training, find a CAD tool and learn yourself. Below are the optional training resources.
  • SketchUp for Woodworking
    • Use Google Sketch-Up to Plan Woodworking Projects
  • Fusion 360 for Woodworking
    • Fusion 360 is Free for students and educators.
    • https://www.autodesk.com/education/edu-software/overview?sorting=featured&page=1 

In-class:

• Check up previous lessons.
  • Essay: What is engineering?
  • Reflection
    • Why are we learning woodworking project methods?
    • What did you learn in the previous class?
    • Safety, what does it mean to you? Do you feel safety issues? Does it relate to your life?
    • Why are we practicing (or simulating) woodworking project?
• Part I: Woodworking design project
  • Review your design ideas. Then, evaluate design idea using universal design criteria. (20 minutes). If needed, update your design idea.
    • Group1 : Alex, Victor, Sara, Mike
    • Group2: Esau, Dennis, Islam, Jhorvi
    • Group3: Raul,Lowman, Richard, Ronaldo
    • Universal design criteria
      • Elegance
      • Robustness
      • Aesthetics
      • Cost
      • Resources
      • Time
      • Skill required
      • Safety
  • Design a wood product: Illustrate your woodworking design ideas.
    • Draw your ideas
    • Free hand sketch first, then CAD design. SketchUp or Fusion 360. (If you are not ready to use CAD software, this process can be skipped)
    • Review your design sketches with below considerations
      • Do you have enough skills to build your solution?
      • Do you have enough tools and resources?
      • Are there anticipated technical difficulties?
    • Until 6:15 pm

• • Assess your design solution using CAFEQUE analysis (20 minutes)
    • Cost: how much does the product cost? is it value for money?
    • Aesthetics: do you think the product looks good?
    • Function: what is the main function of this product?
    • Ergonomics: Is the product easy to use? Is it comfortable?
    • Quality: Is the product well made?
    • Users: Who use use this product?
    • Environment: could the product harm the environment when in use?
  • Make details.
    • Break out into small pieces
    • Determine its materials, size (w x d x h) – industrial products
    • Explain which tools you will use?
  • Present your final design solution (start at 6:50 pm)
    • Submission (submit through your google doc)
      • Complete the design process form on Google Doc
      • Add your sketches (hand drawing or CAD drawing) into the Google Doc.
      • Complete CAFEQUE Evaluation.
  • 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
• Reflect on your project
  • What did you learn?
  • Were the strategies, skills and procedures you used effective for this project?
  • What are some things you did really well on this project?
  • Did you do an effective job of communicating my learning to others?
  • Where did you encounter struggles today, and what did you do to deal with it?
  • What about your thinking, learning, or work today brought you the most satisfaction? Why?
  • What are your next steps? Which of those steps will come easiest? What can you do now to navigate the road ahead with the most success?

Post-class:

• Complete your group project #1, and post in your Open Portfolio. Do not post the Google Doc link with the open edit permission. Make a copy or convert into a PDF file.
• Write a reflection on your project.
• Next week
  • Start digital fabrication.
  • Watch Arduino video posted on Week 5 (will be updated)
  • Set up your Arduino environment.
    • Prepare a physical device
    • Install required software
    • Prepare a TinkerCAD account for online Circuit design.