ENGR 100 A - Syllabus

Date	Topic	Assigned	Due
W Sept 30	Course Introduction & Ice Breaker Exercise (Spaghetti water tower)	Name Tag
F. Oct 2	Introduction to Design and Teamwork Engr100 Journal	Canon Ball (in class extra credit project)
M. Oct 5	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
W. Oct 7	Rube Goldberg: Brainstorm Interesting Honda Example	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)
F. Oct 9	Rube Goldberg: Proposal
M. Oct 12	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction		Rube Goldberg: Proposal (group)
W. Oct 14	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction		Energy Types Assignment (Individual)
F. Oct 16	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction		Rube Goldberg: NXT tutorial (group) Name Tag Memo (Individual) Internal Memorandum sample
M. Oct 19	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction
W. Oct 21	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction
F. Oct 23	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction
M. Oct 26	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction	Engineering Open House (spring quarter only)
W. Oct 28	Rube Goldberg: Prototype Construction	Rube Goldberg: Oral Presentation Oral Presentation tips Poster Example (Edit to fit your own poster.)
F. Oct 30	Rube Goldberg: Competition and Oral presentation	Engineering Open house Schedule (spring quarter only not this year)	Rube Goldberg Evaluation Table for Teammates Rube Goldberg: Oral Presentation (Group) Rube Goldberg Demo Poster presentation (group) Engineering Open House (spring quarter only not this year) Student's Rube Goldberg Projects 2009 Spring
M. Nov 2	Electrical wiring: Basic Electricity Basic Electricity Wiring	Electricity Wiring assignment Conserving Electricity assignment
W. Nov 4	Electrical wiring: Conserving Electricity
F. Nov 6	Electrical wiring: 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. Nov 9	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 If using NXT and Labview for Robot project: 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 Robot Course	NXT tutorial Assignment
W. Nov 11	Holiday
F. Nov13	Robotics Design: Gear Mechanics examples Robotics Design: Sensors examples (NXT only)	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
M. Nov 16	Robotics Design: Construct a simple pathfinder		Electricity Wiring assignment (group) Conserving Electricity assignment (individual)
W. Nov 18	Robotics Design: Construct a simple pathfinder	NXT NI LabVIEW tutorial Assignment (if use WII remote) Design Specification (10%)	Engine dissection assignment (group) (people doing engine dissection don't need to do the electrical wiring and conserving electricity assignment) NXT tutorial assignment (group)
F. Nov 20	Robotics Design: NXT or RCX Code Programming	Design Specification (10%)
M. Nov 23	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing	Construction	pathfinder Assignment (extra credit)
W. Nov 25		Construction	NXT NI LabVIEW tutorial Assignment (group)
F. Nov 27	Holiday	Construction	Design Specification (10%) (group)
M. Nov 30	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing	Construction
W. Dec 2	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing	Construction
F. Dec 4	Career Presentation	Construction
M. Dec 7	Robotics Design: Construction and Testing	Performance Test (NXT) (extra credit) Light sensor test 1(color) test 2 (grey scale) Performance Test (RCX) (extra credit)
W. Dec 9	Robotics Design: Trial Runs
F. Dec 11	Robotics Design: Final Competition	Robotics Final Report (30%)	Competition Schedule Robot competition (40%)
F. Dec 18			Robotics Final Report (30%)