| Week 1 | Thursday, January 22 | |
| welcome to ENGR 230! Discuss course introduction, syllabus, and why study the interplay between technology and society For Tuesday, have read >> the information on the NISH National Scholar Award competition >> the reports from 2007-2008 the first and third place winners (on same page as above) ppt slides from class today |
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| Week 2 | Tuesday, January 27 | Thursday, January 29 |
Break into groups for design project, brainstorm, review parts related to project |
Class discussion based on the following assignment: Write up your findings in a few paragraphs (more than 1/2 a page, less than 2 pages single spaced). Turn it in at the beginning of next class. Also be ready to discuss your findings during our next class. |
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| Week 3 | Tuesday, Febuary 3 | Thursday, Febuary 5 |
| For today: have questions ready for LSI based on our class discussion thursday and based on your further group discussions you'll each turn in your questions have read for today in Beyond Engineering Introduction, pages 3-15 part of Chapter 1 History and Momentum, pages 17-31 |
Visit LSI, leave from lab at 12:15 have read Beyond Engineering |
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| Week 4 | Tuesday, Febuary 10 | Thursday, Febuary 12 |
| For today, have met with your group to discuss ideas generated from the LSI visit We will have a class discussion and group work based on LSI visit |
Turn in a reading journal entry, relate this to our course thesis statement (available above), does the story of the development of the chevy volt fit in with this thesis? Please cite specifics from the story in your entry |
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| Week 5 | Tuesday, Febuary 17 | Thursday, Febuary 19 |
have read Beyond Engineering, pages 31-52. Turn in a reading journal entry. The goal of this entry should be to provide an explanation of what Pool means by "momentum" and how this plays a role in engineering and technology
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brainstorming session - work on inventor drawings Machinist on campus at 3 pm |
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| Week 6 | Tuesday, Febuary 24 | Thursday, Febuary 26 |
Each group timeline/schedule (in excel) must be emailed to both Scott and Hank by Monday at 5 pm. This schedule must have deadlines that map your project to all the specifics required (machining, time for redesigns and time for fabricating the redesigns, multiple testing dates, etc), including the report. Each group should visit Scott and show him their inventor drawings . This should also be done by 5 pm on Monday. |
have read chapter 2 "the power of ideas"
in Beyond Engineering by today reading journal topic - again reflect on our course thesis in the context of this chapter, citing examples, (some of these journals that studenst have writen have been a little too brief, these need to be a minimum of 350 words) Machinist will be on campus or some students will go to Lynchburg to his shop |
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| Week 7 | Tuesday, March 3 | Thursday, March 5 |
| each group will provide very brief update on their progress to the class more group work |
have read part of chaper 3 in Beyond Engineering (pages 85-99) | |
| Week 8 | Tuesday, March 10 | Thursday, March 12 |
| part of class goes to Glass for maching other half works on NISH paper |
instructors away at conference students work on redesigns, paper, etc. |
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| Week 9 | Tuesday, March 17 | Thursday, March 19 |
| spring break | spring break | |
| Week 10 | Tuesday, March 24 | Thursday, March 26 |
discuss design review and required elements for your presentations: What part of the assembly is your group working on? What is your proposed solution? |
mid project evaluation/design review at LSI Each group will give a 15 minute presentation (with slides) This design review will take place at LSI and you should expect to receive input on your designs from our client |
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| Week 11 | Tuesday, March 31 | Thursday, April 2 |
| discuss feedback from LSI design review assess NISH timeline |
have read the rest (p 99-118)of chapter 3 and chapter 4 in Beyond Engineering, reading journal focused on topic from reading of your choice | |
| Week 12 | Tuesday, April 7 | Thursday, April 9 |
| have read chapter 5 in Beyond Engineering, reading journal topic is up to you, remember that you are also being graded on your participation in our disucussions draft of NISH style paper due from each group |
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| Week 13 | Tuesday, April 14 | Thursday, April 16 |
| discuss draft papers review parts progress |
visit LSI with prototypes 7:30 pm - choose parts for NISH paper or papers, meet in design lab |
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| Week 14 | Tuesday, April 21 | Thursday, April 23 |
| Monday by noon - submit NISH format paper to all students in class and faculty for review We'll critique the papers Tuesday. |
Class used for group editing of NISH papers NISH Project Report due April 24 |
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| Week 15 | Tuesday, April 28 | Thursday, April 30 |
| have read chapters 6 and 7 in Beyond Engineering reading journal based on topic of your choice from these chapters |
have read chapter 8 in Beyond Engineering | |
| Week 16 | Tuesday, May 5 | |
| last day of class have read chapt 9 in Beyond Engineering Note that our mid-term test will actually be at the end of the term and will be a paper discussing the course readings and our project |