ENGR 1 Introduction to Engineering

Fall 2009 GRADES

 

Instructor:  Tom Rebold  

Phone:  645-1327               
Office: BH-104A
Office Hours: T/Th3:00-4:30PM, W2-3, F 2-3
Credit:  2 units
Classroom: GA-103     
Time: Tue/Thur 4:30 - 6

Tell me about yourself!     
Class web site:  http://www.mpcfaculty.net/tom_rebold/ENGR1.htm
Tom Rebold's faculty HOME PAGE
Engineering Organizations            Transfer Information           Engineering Resources           Video List                 MIT OpenCourseWare
Robot Talk                                    Green Engineering              Previous Class Pics              Speakers List           YouTube Videos
Outreach:  HS  MPC


Text:           Oakes, Leone & Gunn, Engineering your Future: A Student’s Guide, Great Lakes Press 2nd Edition, 2006, ISBN 1881018962 OR first edition ISBN 1881018911

(Three copies of first edition are on reserve in the library)

Materials:   1 three-ring binder for storing handouts, assignments, design project, etc.

 

Course description:

 

This course will explore careers in engineering, science and technology.  The class will be divided between education/career opportunities, engineering problem solving/design experience, and speakers/video/field trips.

 

Objective: To Learn How Cool (and fun!) It Is To Be An Engineer

To provide every student with sufficient information to allow him/her to decide about engineering as a career. Specifically:

  1. To provide students with an introduction to the broad spectrum of the engineering profession.
  2. To assist students to explore and evaluate the technical challenges, problems, issues and functions of the various engineering fields.
  3. To provide students with an awareness of current technological developments and their impact on society.
  4. To provide students with a perspective of the necessary written and oral communication skills used by engineers in their professional roles.
  5. To introduce students to the professional characteristics and ethical responsibilities of engineers.

 

Catapult Competition Rules

Grades

 

 

LECTURES

PPTs   note: save to your computer or to view online, when asked for name and password, hit the cancel button.

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READING/HWK

All chapters refer to 2nd edition, with

equivalent 1st edition chapter in brackets [ ] 

8/25
8/27


Lecture1 Welcome to ENGR 1
 

Challenge of Getting to Mars Video  (backup)

 

Famous Engineers
Technology Review TR35
  http://www.sinc.stonybrook.edu/Stu/hnaseer/interest.htm

  http://www.uncw.edu/preeng/egn101/famous.html

 

Chapter 3 [2] Profiles

Lab1 RoverCompetition.doc
MarsRover.bs2

9/1

9/3


Lecture 2 Overview                         
Lecture 2A History of Engineering
Lecture 2B Engineering Branches & Functions                   see also MIT OCW
Battle of the X-Planes Video
Tweel                                                 JETS Assess   1  2  3
Chapter 1/2 [1]  Intro
Tower Competition
Assignment 2.doc

9/8
9/10

Lecture 3 Engineering Statistics 

BLS Employment Projections to 2016
Speaker --  UCSC Engineering Visit
Chapter 4 [3]
Assignment 3.doc

Bridge Problem
   competition web site

9/15
9/17

Quiz 1--Chapters 2 to 4
Lecture 4 Structural Analaysis
Structures Video
Bridge Design Activity
Assignment 4.doc

Bridge Design Website

9/22
9/24

Bridge Competition
Speaker Bill Kirkwood, MBARI
Mechanical Engineering
 
9/29
10/1
Lecture 6 Problem Solving           .
Speakers: Adriana Robles: Bestor
Angeline Anzini-Sickler: Howard Carter Associates
Hollee Buckman: Caltrans
Civil Engineering
Chapter 6  [5]
Assignment 6.doc

10/6
10/8

Lecture 7 Working in Teams
Learning Styles Questionaire

Speaker: Martin Hollmann
Aeronautical Engineering

http://www.aircraftdesigns.com/
Chapter 8 [6]
Assigment7 Teams.doc
    The Speedys Gonzales Group

10/13
10/15


Speaker--Susan Walter, MPC Counselor

Engineering Transfer Information
Lecture5A Engineering Degree Plan

Lecture 5C Study Skills

Lecture5B Engineering Study Skills
Chapter 5 [4]
Assignment 5.doc  Extra Credit

California ENGR Schools
www.assist.org

SJSU Grid
CalPoly Grid   Xfer Site
Davis Grid
Other Schools' Grid

(prepare for quiz 2)

10/20
10/22


Catapults
Types

Trebuchet

Electrical Engineering

   Lecture 8A Electrical Engineering
   Lecture 8B DC Electronics
   Lecture 8 Motors and Gears
   torqueUnits.xls
   Gear Fab Demo.zip


Assignment 8
    catapult.xls


For Independent Study (optional):
Lab: Digital Circuits  http://www.jhu.edu/~virtlab/logic/log_cir.htm

Lab8.doc (optional)

10/27
10/29

Quiz 2 Chapters 5,6,8 

Lecture 9 Engineering Design        CATAPULT  RULES
Thoughts on Creativity
  Honda Ad

Chapter 9 [7]
Assignment 9


Lever Arm Catapult.xls

Rotational Kinetic Energy
11/3
11/5
Engineering Communications I
  Hand Sketching           Rect Grid      Iso Grid
  SketchUp Lab
  PowerPoint Lab
  Word Resume Lab 

Conceptual Design Review--
    Private Meeting with Instructor



Hand Sketching
Assignment 10 

PPT and Word  Assignment 10B
(extra credit)


Learn AutoCAD on your own
(extra credit)  Assignment 10C
 

SATURDAY
TBD
SJSU Spartan Preview Day
SJSU Silicon Valley Engineering Scholarships
 
11/10
11/12
Engineering Communications II
    Excel  
      1-OhmsLaw.xls  
      2-AirDensity.xls   
      3-Functions.xls    
      4-AbsoluteVsRelative.xls  
      5-Plotting.xls


Other Useful Material
Technical Communications: How-to and Why it's important

Computer Tools: Overview
Using PowerPoint: Tips & Tricks
  
  
Assignment 11
   weather.xls
    torqueUnits.xls
   powerTrain.xls 

Chapter 7 [8] Computer Tools
Chapter 10 [9]Communication Skills

11/17
11/19

Engineering Disasters and Ethics
    Challenger Disaster (normalization, tightly coupled)
    Tacoma Narrows 1940 Bridge Collapse
    New Orleans Levee Collapse

     World Trade Center Collapse 
       Loose Change 
          36:00  collapse hyman brown
          49:00  bomb in building
        120:00  professor barret
      NIST Investigation    Publications
      NIST Executive Summary

      (View Democracy Now debate  ~10  min)

Engineering Ethics  
(View Nice Guys Finish Last video  ~20 min)

 


Chapter 11 [10]
Assignment 12

 

NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers
Presentation Guidelines for Next Week

11/24
11/26 no class
Thanksgiving

QUIZ 3 Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11
Work Day, regular class time
Final Report Guidelines

12/1

12/3

(Tuesday) Carmel High Build Day

(Thursday)
Critical Design Review --
   Power Point Presentations
   Demo/show any prototypes


The Future

Population & Energy
International Engineering
Nuclear
Nanotechnology
    Atom Transporter
    Nanotech Assembler

     http://cba.mit.edu/events/06.10.review/

The Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil
 

12/8

12/10

(Tuesday) Carmel High Build Day

(Thursday)
MBARI Field Trip, Carpools leave at 4pm, back by 6pm
Intro to MATLAB
Assignment 13

12/15

(Thursday) Catapult Competition  3:00 to 5, Main Quad
Final Exam
Final tweaks on your project/report
TeamEvaluation.doc

 

Coursework & Grading:

 

You will be expected to complete ten short assignments, three short quizes and complete a final project or take the final exam.

Weight Function

 

Labs/Assignments                                                                  25 %

Quizes (covering lectures, labs and reading)                         25 %

Attendance/Participation  (Speaker dates count double)      20 %

Final Project (including report)                                             30 %

           OR

Final Exam                 

 

Final Grade Assignment

90%-100+%

 

A- to A+

80%-89.99%

 

B- to B+

70%-79.99%

 

C- to C+

60%-69.99%

 

D- to D+

<60%

 

F

 

Grading of Labs/Assignments

will be out of 3 points with the following breakdown:

            3 points - homework submitted in a professional manner

                                    (typed, complete, on time)

            2 points - average homework presentation

                                    (2 out of 3 of above)

            1 point  - homework submitted in an unprofessional manner

 

Extra credit: Can be used to offset assignments/quizzes

 

1) An extra point (or two) will be given for work that delves deeper than the homework questions require (there are lots of opportunities here!)      

 

2) you may view a video or read a book/article on reserve at the MPC library (see video list) and write a 1 page paper (double spaced). The first half of your paper should summarize the contents of the article or chapter you've read. The second half of the paper should state your opinions of the material. Paper must be typed. 5 points, worth 1.5 assignments or half a grade step.

 

3) During the course of the semester, you may also obtain additional points by shadowing or interviewing an engineer during his or her work day—5 points, worth half a grade step.

 

Final Project:

 

The final project will be selected from a list of choices and may include a design competition between teams, a Rube-Goldburg type construction, or an independent project of the student’s own choosing. I am curious if anyone is interested in a Service Learning Project.  Your project will be documented in a report of 2-3 double-spaced TYPEWRITTEN pages (more or less depending on team size) describing the design you arrived at PLUS (in addition to writeup pages) drawings, photos, and test data necessary to characterize your invention.  The paper is due at the beginning of the Final Exam Day and will substitute for the final. Students not wishing to do a project or who have been fired from their teams will be required to take the final.