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Engineering (3° & 4°) 4th Quarter 2005-06
Most recent update May 24, 2006 10:29 AM
Schedule
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- Week of Tuesday, March 14th: Aeronatical Engineering (short week)
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Lec: Mission to Mars - Discussion of the trade-offs, and the difficulties.
- Manned or Unmanned?
- Round trip or One-way?
- How Long?
- Landing on or Orbiting around Mars
- HW: finish reading handout from today
- Lec: Mission to Mars - Discussion of the trade-offs, and the difficulties.
- Day 3
- Laptops
- With your table group, you are to plan a mission to Mars: write a 1-2 page summary that addresses all of the trade-offs mentioned in the handout. Print out at end of class or take home as HW.
- Internet HW: read this introduction to robotics technology -- stop when you get to the section called Open Source Robot Control Software; take a page of handwritten notes that you can use during a reading and vocabulary quiz on Day 1 HW Packet A
- HW: please bring your TI calculator and your calculator cables (if you have them) to class next week and for the remainder of the unit. The calculator cables needed by your group include a calculator-to-calculator cable (usually short with headphone-looking plugs on each end) and a calculator-to-computer cable (usually long, with a USB plug on one end and a headphone-looking plug on the other, with some circuitry in between). We will have one of each of these cables available in class.
- Week of Monday, March 20th: Begin Robotics Unit
- Day 1
- 3rd period: Mars Mission due at start of class
- Short robotics reading and vocab quiz from HW from Day 3
- Introduction to Robotics Unit ... explanation of Project 1 (motion-detector alarm)
- Introduce our two manuals: the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual and the Robotics and Control Kit manual (not available online, unfortunately)
- Hand out materials (4 units per class, so groups of 5 or 6) -- 3rd period will have boxes 1 - 4, 4th period will have boxes 5 - 8.
- Lecture: Downloading the DCU programs onto your calculator:
- using the TI connect program from a laptop (harder!) with our cable and the linked file above
- using calculator-to-calculator transfer (easier!) with one of your cables
- Demo: Show sample Motion Alarm
- Lecture: Running the DCUTOGGL ("DCU Toggle") program on your calculator (see page 4 in the RCK manual)
- Lecture: Running the DCUALARM ("DCU Alarm") program on your calculator (see page 5 in the RCK manual) -- you will want to modify this program so that the alarm only goes off for a brief period of time (less annoying)
- HW: continue work on Project 1, as needed, outside of class; 3°: have someone in your science faire group bring materials for a poster
- Internet HW: visit the Toshiba Robotics site and write a 1-paragraph summary of their products HW Packet A
- Day 2
- 3°: Bring supplies to work on Science Faire posters/presentations/etc. as needed, or work on Project 1 if able to in my absence [BJP out today]
- 4°: Work on Project 1 in-class
- Important note! The Science and Psychology Faire in the Old Gym will be this Thursday, so please prepare a sign for your activity so students will know what they're looking at!
- Thursday morning: one member of your Science Faire group should come to the Old Gym before school to set up
- HW: continue work on Project 1, as needed, outside of class; also: prepare a SIGN for your Science Faire project
- Internet HW: visit the Honda ASIMO Robotics site and write a 1-paragraph summary of the product HW Packet A
- Day 3
- Thursday morning: one member of your Science Faire group should meet us in the Old Gym before school to set up their project
- Work on Project 1 in-class; if you have finished Project 1 early, you can move on to the Project Challenges -- you can choose to do Project Challenge 1, 2, or 3.
- 4th and 5th periods: Science Faire !!!!!
- HW: continue work on Project 1, as needed, outside of class
- Internet HW: read about Asimov's Laws of Robotics and write them down; then read Appendices B and C (starting on page 70) in the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual HW Packet A
- Day 4
- Work on Project 1 in-class; if you have finished Project 1 early, you can move on to the Project Challenges -- you can choose to do Project Challenge 1, 2, or 3.
- HW: continue work on Project 1, as needed, outside of class -- finish this on Day 1 of next week!
- Internet HW: begin reading the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual (get to page 26 by Day 3 of next week)
- Day 1
SAVE THE DATE: after school on Friday, April 7th, we'll have our (long-awaited) visit from the Chairman/CEO of Intel Corporation! Please meet immediately after school in the library. If you can't make it due to a conflict, please talk to your teacher.
- Week of Monday, March 27th: Robotics
- Day 1
- AutoE and AeroE survey
- Finish and demonstrate Project 1 in class
- We will work as a class to select one of the following projects for your group, to be finished by Day 1 of next week. Make sure no other group in your class period is working on the same project!
- Project 2: Greenhouse (Easy Wiring/Intermediate Construction/Easy Programming)
- Project 5: Traffic Light (Easy/Easy/Advanced)
- Project 6: Optical Illusion Generator (E/I/I)
- Project 10: Rubber Band Launcher (E/E/A)
- Project 13: Tea Brewer (E/Moderate/A)
- HW: continue work on your second project, as needed, outside of class -- finish this on Day 1 of next week!
- Internet HW: continue reading the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual (get to page 26 by Day 3)
- Day 2
- HW Packet A due
- Work on your second project in-class
- HW: continue work on your second project, as needed, outside of class
- Internet HW: continue reading the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual (get to page 26 by Day 3)
- Day 3
- Results of 3rd period survey
- Work on your second project in-class
- HW: continue work on your second project, as needed, outside of class
- Internet HW: continue reading the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual (start reading pp 55 - 68, finish this by Day 1 of next week)
- Day 4
- Reading quiz on assigned reading from DCU manual
- Work on your second project
- HW: continue work on your second project, as needed, outside of class
- Internet HW: continue reading the Digital Control Unit (DCU) manual (read pp 55 - 68, finish this by Day 1 of next week
- Day 1
SAVE THE DATE: after school on Friday, April 7th, we'll have our (long-awaited) visit from the Chairman/CEO of Intel Corporation! Please meet immediately after school in the library. If you can't make it due to a conflict, please talk to your teacher.
- Week of Monday, April 3rd : Robotics
- Day 1
- Prepare for design conference for Advertisement Project
- HW: continue work on your design conference, as needed, outside of class
- Day 2
- Design conference
- HW: continue work on your advertisement project, as needed, outside of class; prepare for Quiz on Day 3
- Day 3
- Quiz on DCU programming
- Work on Advertisement Project
- HW: continue work on your advertisement project, as needed, outside of class
- Day 4
- Work on Advertisement Project
- HW: continue work on your advertisement project, as needed, outside of class
- Day 1
NOTE: after school on Friday, April 7th, we'll have our (long-awaited) visit from the Chairman/CEO of Intel Corporation! Please meet immediately after school in the library. If you can't make it due to a conflict, please talk to your teacher.
- Week of Monday, April 10th: Robotics (short week)
- Day 1
- Work on Advertisement Project
- HW: continue work on your advertisement project, as needed, outside of class
- Day 2
- Work on Advertisement Project
- HW: continue work on your advertisement project, as needed, outside of class
- Day 3
- Display Advertisement Project!!
- Day 1
.....EASTER BREAK!.....
- Week of Monday, April 24th : Robotics
- Day 1
- Begin watching DARPA's "Great Robot Race" (After each approx. 6 min chapter, take a paragraph of notes)
- Important note: if you have "borrowed" any of the DC adapter plugs that power the DCU or LabPros, please return them to the classroom. At present we are only able to locate five of them: we should have at least eight.
- Another important note: if you have "borrowed" any of the yellow roll-up extension cords (or have seen them anywhere else on campus) pleas return them. We purchased four of them and are now down to one. They have "SI ENGINEERING" clearly written on the side.
- HW: begin design with group members of mobile robot
- Day 2
- Finish watching DARPA's "Great Robot Race" (After each approx. 6 min chapter, take a paragraph of notes)
- Introduce BugWorks!
- HW: continue design with group members of mobile robot
- Day 3
- Alpha lab: BugWorks! -- click on Tutor and begin working through missions
- HW: continue design with group members of mobile robot
- Day 4
- Mr. Cannady's class - Present your projects!! Each group will have 8-10min. Be prepared.
- Alpha lab: BugWorks! -- continue work on missions
- HW: continue design with group members of mobile robot
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, May 1st: Robotics
- Day 1
- 3rd period: Beta Lab
- BugWorks! -- continue work on missions & writing up "one sheet" that describes how the program works (due Day 4)
- Day 2
- 3rd period: Alpha Lab
- BugWorks! -- continue work on missions
- Day 3
- 3rd period: Alpha Lab
- BugWorks! -- continue work on missions
- Day 4
- "One-sheet" for BugWorks! due
- Introduce the St. Ignatius Robotics Competition of 2006
- Day 1
REMAINDER OF TERM: St. Ignatius Robotics Competition of 2006
Here is the Robotics Engineering Survey and the 3rd Period Results.