ENGR 100 A - Syllabus

Date	Topic	Assigned	Due
M. Mar 28	Course Introduction & Ice Breaker Exercis(Spaghetti water tower)) paper tower (extra credit)	Name Tag
W. Mar 30	Introduction to Design and Teamwork Engr100 Journal	Canon Ball (in class extra credit project)
F. April 1	Rube Goldberg Design: Introduction Rube Goldberg Design: Presentation Simple machines Rube Goldberg gallery previous quarter Rube Goldberg project examples Another link to previous quarter projects interesting Rube Goldberg project	Energy Type Exercise	Rube Goldberg Teams
M. April 4	Rube Goldberg: Brainstorm Interesting Honda Example Previous quarter RubeGoldnerg Projects	NXT tutorial (please make sure you go through this. If you finish this, you won't need to do this again in the robot project)
W. April. 6	Rube Goldberg: Proposal
F. April 8	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction		Rube Goldberg: Proposal (group) Energy Types Assignment (Individual)
M. April 11	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction
W. April 13	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction more interesting Rube Goldberg videos: music video water calculator
F. April 15	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction		Name Tag Memo (Individual) Internal Memorandum sample
M. April 18	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction	Rube Goldberg: Oral Presentation Oral Presentation tips Poster presentation (group) Poster Example (Edit to fit your own poster.)
W. April. 20	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction	Engineering Open house Schedule (spring quarter only)
F. April. 22	Rube Goldberg: Final presentation!!!	Rube Goldberg: Final report format (group) Engineering Open House (spring quarter only)	Rube Goldberg Evaluation Table for Teammates Rube Goldberg: Oral Presentation (Group) Rube Goldberg Scoring Sheet Poster presentation (group) Engineering Open House (spring quarter only not this year)
M. April. 25	Basic Electricity Basic Electricity Wiring	Electricity Wiring assignment Conserving Electricity assignment
W. April 27	Conserving Electricity
F. April 29	Basic Electricity Wiring
Alternate project to electrical wiring	Engine Dissection : Introduction to Engine Project PowerPoint presentation U of Windsor On-Line Manual How things work Power calculation template
M. May 2	Robotics Design: Introduction, Inventory and Training Reading package PDF If using RCX for Robot project: Info on RCX Code: PDF NQC Software Download: NQC program Tutorial for Robots using NQC PDF Tips on how to use opcode programing word Links to to available resources for NQC: NQC API programmer's guide RCXcc Homepage (NQC software) RCX Internals (opcode references) version 2.5 NQC (needed for opcodes) RCX 2.0 firmware SDK Software Remote control programs for palm: TV remote LEGO remote More information on opcode programing: NQC Programming Notes The Goldfish Online RCX competition video!!!! one more!!! If using NXT and Labview for Robot project: Project Description: PDF Info on NXT Code: basic functions and blockchart Additional NXT-G Block commands PDF tricks and additional NXT-G block commands PDF Tutorial for Robots using NXC PDF Tutorial for Robots using NI Labview PDF LabVIEW NXT references Additional Info on Sensors and Other Programming Languages PDF NXTCamera and other Mindsensors installation related info PDF Wii remote control NXT Competition video!!!! Robot Course
W. May 4	Robotics Design: Gear Mechanics examples Robotics Design: Sensors examples (NXT only)
F. May 6	Robotics Design: Construct a simple pathfinder Examples from previous quarter	Construct a simple Pathfinder	Rube Goldberg: Final report format (group) Rube Goldberg Evaluation Table for Teammates (turn in along with your final report) Referencing your work cite references and create bibliographies using RefWorks in Microsoft Word Electricity Wiring assignment (group) Conserving Electricity assignment (individual) Engine dissection assignment (group) (people doing engine dissection don't need to do the electrical wiring and conserving electricity assignment)
M. May 9	Robotics Design: Construct a simple pathfinder	NXT tutorial Assignment (if use NXT program) NXT NI LabVIEW tutorial Assignment (if use WII remote)
W. May 11	Robotics Design: RCX Code Programming
F. May 13	Robotics Design: Brainstorm and Design	Design Specification (10%)	Pathfinder Due (20%) assignment (group)
M. May 16
W. May 18	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing	Construction
F. May 20	Career Presentation		Design Specification (10%) (group)
M. May 23	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing
W. May 25	Robotics Design: Trial Runs
F. May 27	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing
M. May 30	Holiday	Performance Test (NXT) (extra credit) Light sensor test 1(color) test 2 (grey scale) Performance Test (RCX) (extra credit)
W. June 1	Robotics Design: Trial Runs
F. June 3	Robotics Design: Final Competition	Robotics Final Report (30%)	Competition Schedule Robot Scoring (40%)
F. Mar. 18			Robotics Final Report (30%)