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Engineering & Design

Engineering and Design is part of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and career path. By building real-world problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, students learn how to innovate and design new products and improve existing products. Students are introduced to the engineering design process to build new products and to the reverse engineering process, which enables engineers to adjust any existing product.

Engineering & Design is a course that has signficantly more projects for this course than traditional assignment based courses.

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This course requires substantial independent work with research and writing related to projects which are required to complete the course.  A student will be unable to pass the course without completing the research, analysis, and writing portion of this course successfully.  Assignments in this course place a strong emphasis on student inquiry, research, and writing, and much of the assessment is based on writing projects.

Engineering & Design

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING AND DESIGN AND THE DESIGN PROCESS 

  1. Course Overview
  2. Design Opportunities All Around Us
  3. Design Improvements
  4. Project 1: Creating a Product Discussion Forum
  5. Improvements of Everyday Items
  6. Project 2: Model or Prototype Suggestion Presentation
  7. Quiz 1: Introduction to Design Opportunities
  8. Basic Engineering Concepts
  9. Choosing Materials for Design
  10. Project 3: Researching Materials Designs
  11. Application of Materials
  12. Quiz 2: Fundamentals of Engineering
  13. Project: Special Project –Notebook (Required)
  14. Test
  15. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 2: FLUID SYSTEMS: ENERGY AND POWER TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGINEERING

  1. Fluid Power Systems
  2. Fluid Power Devices
  3. Project 1: Researching a Fluid Power System Goal 
  4. Designing Fluid Power Systems for Future Developments
  5. Project 2: Creating a Fluid Power System for the Future
  6. Quiz 1: Introduction to Fluid Power
  7. Common Applications for Fluid Power Systems
  8. Project 3: Identifying Fluid Power in Daily Life 
  9. Efficient Fluid Power Designs
  10. Designing a Fluid Power Lifting System
  11. Project 4: Designing a Fluid Power Lift System 
  12. Quiz 2: Fluid Power Applications and Capabilities
  13. Test

UNIT 3: MODELING AND SKETCHING

  1. Introduction to Technical Sketching and Drawing
  2. Project 1: Interview an Engineer About Sketching 
  3. Geometric Shapes and Solids in Engineering
  4. Drawing to Scale
  5. Project 2: Creating a Technical Sketch of an Everyday Object to Scale 
  6. Quiz 1: Introduction to Design and Technical Sketches
  7. The Applications for Modeling in Engineering
  8. Modeling and Prototypes
  9. Project 3: Researching Model Uses in Remote or Dangerous  Locations  
  10. Designing a Sketch Model
  11. Quiz 2: Sketch Modeling
  12. Test
  13. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 4: REVERSE ENGINEERING

  1. Reverse Engineering: Visual Analysis
  2. Reverse Engineering: Functional Analysis
  3. Project 1: Creating a Function Structure Diagram or Product Teardown Chart
  4. Reverse Engineering: Structural Analysis
  5. Project 2: Creating a Morphological Matrix 
  6. Quiz 1: Introduction to Reverse Engineering
  7. Finding the Product: The Reverse Engineering and Design Process Applied
  8. Implementing the Procedure: Reverse Engineering a Product
  9. Calculating the Process: Materials, Time, and Cost for Improvement
  10. Project 4: Researching Materials, Time, and Cost for Product Modifications 
  11. Quiz 2: Using Reverse Engineering for Product Improvement
  12. Test
  13. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 5: ENGINEERING TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABILITY

  1. Environmental Engineering Introduction
  2. Project 1: Researching a Local Sustainability Issue
  3. Energy and Air Quality
  4. Green Buildings and Green Initiatives
  5. Project 2: LEED Ratings for Building Construction
  6. Quiz 1: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  7. Environmental Assessment and Impacts
  8. Project 3: Researching Life Cycles for Assessment 
  9. Green Design Principles: Systems and Environment
  10. Incorporating Green Engineering Principles
  11. Project 4: Creating a Decision Matrix for an Environmental Issue
  12. Quiz 2: Environmental Life Cycle and Green Engineering Design
  13. Test
  14. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 6 – REVIEW, AND EXAM

  1. Course Review
  2. Exam