Our Class Mission: Building a Better Future
Logging in to our Slack workspace
- go to slack.com/signin
- enter the workspace name: wheelerengine-fcd3449
- sign in with your email and password
- Learning Plan template to complete: learningplan_blank.docx
- Learning Plan outline to help you: learningplan_outline.pdf
3D printing instructions
For those not privy to this information, we have a 3D printer available to this classroom. However, the 3D printer is mine and I value it not being destroyed so I keep it at home. With that said, nearly anything you can design in SolidWorks, Fusion, or any other 3D design software can be printed on a 3D printer with relatively high precision and for nearly free. The only real limitation is time as 3D printing is a very simple but slow process. You just need to do the following
- In SolidWorks (or another design software), upload a .stl file to THIS LINK
- Let me know that you are doing so, and I will check whether the size/design of your part is feasible to print on my printer
- I'll bring you the part the next school day (or sometime in the near future)
Remediation/Late-Work Turn-In Instructions
There are no permanent zeros in this class: I am fully fine with you making up old missed assignments as my emphasis is just that by the end of the semester you can demonstrate you have learned something and are ready for the next level of the course. However, it gets very difficult for me to keep going back and checking if and when you submitted something in the dozens of different google form or email submission places we will have throughout this semester, and I can promise you just telling me I will forget. So here is my system for staying organized:
- Go back to the past blog post and turn in the assignment how was allegedly supposed to be have submitted then.
- Complete THIS FORM letting me know what assignment you are trying to get made up or remediated as well as how it has been turned in
- I'll get it graded and back to you in the next few days.
Monday, 1/6
Wednesday, 1/8
Thursday, 1/9
Friday, 1/10
Monday, 1/13
Tuesday, 1/14
Wednesday, 1/15
Thursday, 1/16
Friday, 1/17
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- Norms and expectations in this class
- How am I learning it?
- Discussing norms and making paper planes
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Store your paper airplane for tomorrow
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- Hand out syllabus and safety contract
- Fill in the sentence activity
- Opening PowerPoint
- Make Paper Airplanes
- Resources
- Opening day PowerPoint (filename: ???)
- Butcher paper to fill in the sentences
- Paper for airplanes
- Safety contract (filename: ????)
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- What the Engineering Design Process is
- How am I learning it?
- Making and remaking paper airplanes to improve them
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Complete a paper-airplane mobile demonstrating the EDP
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- EDP notes
- “Official” Paper Airplane competition
- Make Paper Airplane mobile in groups
- Resources
- EDP notes (name: ???)
- Mobile materials
- Sticks
- Strings
- cardstock
- Paper for airplanes
Wednesday, 1/8
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- What is the Universal Systems Model
- How am I learning it?
- Notes and activity over the USM
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Turn in USM assignment
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- Norms discussion
- USM notes
- USM assignment
- Resources
- USM notes (file name: ???)
- USM assignment (filename: ???)
Thursday, 1/9
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- Safety practices in the Engineering classroom
- How am I learning it?
- Safety talk and quiz
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Complete Safety quiz and turn in contract
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- SGM testing
- Norms discussion
- Safety conversation and notes
- Safety quiz
- Resources
- SGM testing setup
- Safety notes
- Safety quiz
Friday, 1/10
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- How does working in different groups effect how I act?
- How am I learning it?
- Take a personality test and then group in similar and different groups
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Compare results from working in heterogeneous and homogeneous groups
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- Personality test
- Individual activity
- Homogeneous grouping activity
- Heterogeneous grouping activity
- Debrief discussion
- Resources
- SGM testing setup
- Online personality test:
- Group activity comparisons (TODO!!!!)
Monday, 1/13
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- How to sketch to help express ideas with others
- How am I learning it?
- Sketching of basic 3D shapes
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Complete basic shapes sketches and a “new idea”
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- 2D objects sketches
- 3D objects sketches
- 3D objects with perspective sketches
- New invention sketch
- Resources
- Sketching PP
Tuesday, 1/14
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- What are possible Engineering Careers?
- How am I learning it?
- Notes on Engineering careers and individual research
- How will I show that I learned it?
- ???
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- Careers notes
- Careers activity???
- Prepare a presentation???
- Resources
- Careers notes
Wednesday, 1/15
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- Recapping the basic skills and knowledge to be successful in this course
- How am I learning it?
- Recapping EDP, USM, careers, safety, sketching
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Turn in summative assignment
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- Recap Discussion of what we learned
- Work on summative assignment
- Closing activity: what I’ve learned
- Resources
- Unit 1 Summative rubric
Thursday, 1/16
- EQs
- What am I learning?
- Recapping the basic skills and knowledge to be successful in this course
- How am I learning it?
- Recapping EDP, USM, careers, safety, sketching
- How will I show that I learned it?
- Turn in summative assignment
- What am I learning?
- Day outline
- Recap Discussion of what we learned
- Work on summative assignment
- Closing activity: what I’ve learned
- Resources
- Unit 1 Summative rubric
Friday, 1/17
- If all safety forms turned in, then we learn to use tools!!!
Class Logistic Resources
*subject to change. I will update this as the schedule changes.
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Long Term Projects
Software
- Free SolidWorks License
- By being enrolled in this class, you are eligible for a free SolidWorks license on your personal or home computer! In the realm of CAD software, SolidWorks is one of the most extensive and expensive platforms. If you would like a license, let me know and I can walk you through the process and get you a license # (I just can't post it online)
- By being enrolled in this class, you are eligible for a free SolidWorks license on your personal or home computer! In the realm of CAD software, SolidWorks is one of the most extensive and expensive platforms. If you would like a license, let me know and I can walk you through the process and get you a license # (I just can't post it online)