Module 15

Course Outlines

Current Course Outline

Module 1

In this module you will start to get acquainted with your group. After meeting everyone, we will get started on our projects. Our first task is to create our blog, we will be using these the whole year. Next, explore applications of 3D printing and their many uses. We will pass around sample prints
by the printer and your job is to examine their properties and qualities closely; when you have done
this create a blog post on what interesting things you have found out about the prints. Based on
your newfound knowledge create 3 item designs that you think could be useful and printed out by
a 3D printer. With these ideas you will create sketches and models with clay to better visualize them.
When done with the sketches and the clay, take screenshots of your drawings and videos of your
clay and post it on the blog.

Module 2

In this module we will be first critiquing other teams clay modules in the comments on their blogs,
make sure to be using constructive criticism. Next based off of these comments, improve the design
of your own model. When this is all finished we will be using a program called tinkerCAD, create
an account and start to fool around with it going through the basic tutorials. Last, you will give a
presentation on your clay model in front of the class.

Module 3

In this module we will be exploring TinkerCad a bit more. Go on and explore some of the sample
designs included with the program. Next, use your skills to design something that will test the limits
of the printer itself, get instructor approval before printing. Next, from your previous 3 sketches,
pick a design your group can agree on and make it on tinkercad. Print this out and then go and
interact with other groups to see what they’re doing.

Module 4

The first thing were going to do is create a rubric to evaluate oru designs and then use to to critique
them. Next, critique other groups based on this same rubric. When done hand in your project and
start creating your team flier.

Module 5

Evaluate your design independently. As a team present your design and explain how you took it
through the design process.

Module 6

During this module, we designed a house out of cardboard. We brought together many different
sections of engineering: mechanical, civil, electrical and chemical to make a house which consisted
of plumbing/heating, building design and much more. We had to build the house, and with our
house we had two floors, a kitchen with heated floors, bathroom with plumbing for the showers
and sinks, etc.

Module 7

In this module, we will meet with the manager of 63’s to be informed of needs and desires. We will
meet as a group to define the problem that required data collection. In addition, we will come up
with ideas and questions to collect the data and we will collect the data. We will also arrange the
data in tabular form.

Module 8

We will create a presentation to show the data that was collected and tell the manager of the trends
and results. We will perform the presentation and receive feedback from the manager on how well
the data was collected.

Module 9

During this first week of legos, we had to learn about the Lego Mindstorm v3 kit and then we had to
build the lego bot. Once we did this we had to download the mission and everything we needed for
the bot to work. We also had to complete all the missions, we had to put on all the sensors and we
had to make our bot adjust when the sensors went off.

Module 10

This week we had to code the bot to function on its own without us using the remote. We had to

program the bot to complete certain missions on its own. Once we had all of these programs built

we had to complete a major course which consisted of all the programs combined.

Module 11

This is where we had to create our own programing. This was an individual project and when each

person was done, we combined all of our programs into one big program. Then we had to draw out

our own design for a bot and we had to change up a few things which we think would make the bot

perform better.

Module 12

This week was when we actually had our bot matches. We went into the side room right when you

walk into the academic building. We had a lot of people there watching and we also had the shu

news there. Once all the matches were over, we came back and took apart the bots and that was

the end of bot legos.

Module 13

In the beginning of this unit, there were two students that came in to show us projects they had done
using microcontrollers. After taking notes on those, we learned how to blink LEDs using our kits.
Finally, we connected multiple LEDs and began building our Xmas trees with built-in lighting.

Module 14

In this class, we went over a brief lecture on how the circuitry of LEDs works. Then, we finished
building our Xmas trees and set them all up on one table for our Xmas tree lighting.

New Course Outline

3D Printing probably could have taken less time than the five weeks we had in the beginning, and
the extra time taken off of that could have been added to the smart home design (which allowed us
to be very creative, but under lots of time constraints).

The example homes could’ve used a little bit more time for development since we had to create
them in a day but it was effective in making us think. Also we couldve collected more data from 63s
to get a better look at the results but we did have enough in order to make an inference.