Section C - MWF 2

Section C : MWF 12:30 pm - 02:20 pm

Feng-Ju Hsieh, Instructor (Mechanical engineering)

Andrew T. Kinsman, Teaching Assistant (Chemical Engineering)

Tentative Schedule Spring2009

Assignments can be turned in via Catalyst Collect It DropBox

Week	Date	Class Activities	Handouts/Resources	Assignments	Due Dates
1	Mon, Mar. 30	Class introduction & Find your group member & Introduction of Spaghetti Water Tower project	Syllabus Introduction of Spaghetti Water Tower porject Memo Tips, Memo Examples, EX1 EX2	Introduction of yourself Memo (Individual Assignment) Name tag assignment (Individual Assignment)	Fri, April 03 Fri, April 03
	Wed, April 01	Spaghetti Water Tower construction and Test Name Tag	Handout of function of Team and design process Engineering Design process	Tower Memo (Group Assignment)	Weds, April 08
	Fri, April 03	Introduction to Bridge project & Component Test	Introduction to Bridge Project Bridge Project Slide Show Bridge Web Resources West Point Bridge Software WPB Software Instructions Introduction to Components Testing Component test data sheet	Bridge Ideas (Individual Assignment) Components test Memo (Individual Assignment)	Fri, April 10 Mon, April 13
2	Mon, April 06	Prototype Design/Construction	Memo grading policy and Force Analysis
	Weds, April 08	Prototype Construction
	Fri,April 10	Prototype Construction
3	Mon,April 13	Prototype Construction	Historical Component Test Data
	Weds, April 15	Prototype Construction
	Fri, April 17	Prototype Testing	Pictures of Prototype Testing	Prototype bridge performance (Group assignment) Bridge Final Presentation (Group assignment) Bridge Final Report (Group assignment)	Weds, April 29 Weds, April 29 Mon, May 04
4	Mon, April 20	Revision / construction
	Weds, April 22	Final Bridge Construction
	Fri, April 24	Final Bridge Construction	Examples of presentation slides EX1, EX2, EX3
5	Mon, April 27	Final bridge testing	Result
	Weds, April 29	Bridge presentation		Teammate evaluation (Individual assignment)	Mon, May 04
	Fri, May 01	Electrical wiring: Basic Electricity Virtual Wiring	Basic Electricity PowerPoint slides	Electricity Wiring (Individual assignment)	Wed, May 13
6	Mon, May 04	Electrical wiring: Conserving Electricity	Conserving Electricity	Conserving Electricity (Individual assignment)	Wed, May 13
	Weds, May 06	Electrical wiring: Virtual Wiring	LabVIEW files: Logic Switch General Switch
	Fri, May 08	Electrical wiring: Real Wiring		Electricity Project Report (Group assignment)	Fir, May 15
7	Mon, May 11	Robot Project Introduction Inventory	Robot project introduction Robot project slide show RCX tutorial NQC tutorial	Brainstorming for your Robot (Group assignment)	Mon, May 18
	Weds, May 13	Pathfinder Construction	NQC download	Pathfinder construction (Group assignment)	Fir, May 15
	Fri, May 15	Pathfinder testing Robot construction		Programming assignment (Individual assignment)	Weds, May 27
8	Mon, May 18	Gear mechanics and sensors	Competition schedule
	Weds, May 20	Round 1 test runs (base point assessment)
	Fri, May 22	Construction and testing
9	Mon, May 25	*Holiday No class*
	Weds, May 27	Construction and testing		Final report (Group assignment)	Fri, June 05
	Fri, May 29	Revising & testing
10	Mon, June 01	Revision & testing
	Weds, June 03	Final Competition
	Fri, June 05	Class Wrap Up Course Evaluations

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