Overview
While attending this class Hope learned advance physics as well as become certified in Robot-C.
- Computational and Analytical Skills
- Sketch a free body diagram with more than one pair of forces
- Justify the validity of entries in a given decision matrix
- Solve for unknown variables in a combination circuit given other components
- Calculate the location of a shape’s centroid
- Solve for the magnitude of a vector
- Solve for external and internal forces in a given truss
- Determine the modulus of elasticity and elastic limit from tensile test data
- Determine the yield, tensile, and ultimate strengths from tensile test data
- Analyze graphical data from beam deflection
- Use Kirchhoff’s Law to calculate current, resistance, and voltage in a circuit
- Write programming code for a project involving a sequence or system of tasks
- Use a variety of methods for identifying and correcting bugs in a program code
- Calculate the unknown variable for a system that has been subject to a change of state using the gas laws
- Use Bayes’ theorem to calculate the probability of an event based on past events
- Calculate the initial velocity of a projectile and the angle it is launched
- Determine an unknown quantity in a formula when most of the other variable values are provided and one
value requires an additional calculation such as addition, unit conversion, or rearrangement of the formula
- Engineering Design Experience
- Exhibit professional skills needed to successfully contribute to work in a team
- Determine how to proceed through possible alternate routes of a design process
- Improve a system design that converts electrical energy to mechanical energy
- Modify the design of a fuel cell project to increase the efficiency of the system
- Defend an insulation design considering the three modes of heat transfer
- Interpret data to make conclusions about insulation design effectiveness
- Justify material choice in the design of a solution
- Improve the efficiency of a solution by modifying hardware and software
- Justify the use of either a hydraulic or pneumatic system in a problem
- Tools and Software
- VEX Robotics platform
- Logger Pro- Data collection and analysis software
- ROBOTC- Robot programming language
- Professional Skills
- Team collaboration
- Project management
- Problem-solving
- Communication skills
PLTW
- Engineering Principles of Engineering | Course Resume
- Presentation skills
- Technical writing
Course Knowledge - Careers
- Engineering disciplines
- STEM careers related to engineering
- Professional ethics
- Energy and Power
- Mechanisms and simple machines
- Mechanical advantage
- Energy sources and applications
- Materials and Structures
- Vectors, forces, and statics
- Trusses
- Material properties
- Centroids
- Tensile testing
- Control Systems
- Machine control
- Programming
- Sensors and motors
- Fluid Power – hydraulics and pneumatics
- Statistics and Kinematics
- Statistics
- Kinematics