3rd Quarter Calendar

THURSDAY, 4/12/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

Motor Controller Assignment or Wiring Harness Assignment -- see ROV web page (DUE 4/17, at the beginning of class)

TUESDAY, 4/10/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

ROV Task List Returned with page signed by instructor (DUE 4/12)

FRIDAY, 4/6/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 4/5/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to utilize ArchiCAD as a design tool.
Students were given time in class to finish their First House Drawing Assignment. It was emphasized that students should ONLY do the bare minimum required for this assignment so that you can get it done, and move on to the second assignment.
When finished with the First House Drawing Assignment, students started the Second House Drawing Assignment. Students were warned that this 2nd house should be designed so that there would be room to add a partial second floor, large enough to have two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a hallway (in addition to a set of stairs).

ASSIGNED WORK:

Second House Drawing Assignment (DUE TBA)

TUESDAY, 4/3/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 3/22/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

TUESDAY, 3/20/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 3/15/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to use ArchiCAD to model houses and pursue other architectural design.
Students continued to walk through ArchiCAD 21. Today, students were shown how to add kitchen items and furniture, how to make section views, how to add dimensions and text, how to create drawings, and then how to generate a single PDF with all of the drawings using ArchiCAD's publisher.
Students began to work on this First House Drawing Assignment. Students need to read the assignment carefully, and be sure to ask clarifying questions as needed. This assignment is to be turned in via Showbie.

ASSIGNED WORK:

First House Drawing Assignment (DUE 4/12)

TUESDAY, 3/13/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to use ArchiCAD to model houses and pursue other architectural design.
Students were told that they could go to Graphisoft's ArchiCAD website to obtain a copy of ArchiCAD 21 at home. Students will have to show that they are indeed a student. Also, students were incouraged to make sure they could acquire ArchiCAD 21, and not some other version of the program, to insure compatibility.
Students continued to walk through ArchiCAD 21. Today students were specifically shown how to modify the properties of elements, how walls can be trimmed and intersected, adding interior walls, installing windows, adding slabs, adding both a gable and hip roof, and how to use the marquee tool to see an interior view of the house in 3D.

ASSIGNED WORK:

FRIDAY, 3/9/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will build large ROV's that operate in Yaquina Bay.
Students worked on their large ROV's. Work was guided by the group-developed ROV priority lists. Material requisitions should continue to be the focus. Again, the emphasis today is to work to a roadblock for each priority area of your ROV. Roadblocks should generally be a need for materials. Needed materials need to be identified and requisitions ASAP. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 3/8/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to use ArchiCAD to model houses and pursue other architectural design.
Today the Architecture portion of the class was begun. Mr. K introduced architecture via an experience he had in designing and building a house himself.
Designing houses via 2D means (AutoCAD) and by 3D means (ArchiCAD) were both discussed. There are pros and cons to both.
We will be using ArchiCAD as our design tool. This ArchiCAD Interface Map was given to each student to help get familiar with this software.
In preparation for the architecture portion of the class, students were asked to go to this shared Class Architecture Folder (you must be logged into your school google account using firstname.lastname@student.csd509j.net and your normal school computer password) and download the ArchiCAD template file and open it up to make sure it works. You may need to also download the Raider logo if it wants it when you try to open the template file. Whenever you work on ArchiCAD assignments, you are to start by using this template file.
With the remaining time in class, students were walked through the process of designing a house in ArchiCAD. For the first several days, we will be building a house together until you get the hang of how this program functions.

ASSIGNED WORK:

TUESDAY, 3/6/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
Students worked on their large ROV's. Work was guided by the group-developed ROV priority lists. The emphasis today is to work to a roadblock for each priority area of your ROV. Roadblocks should generally be a need for materials. Needed materials need to be identified and requisitions ASAP. See ROV webpage.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 3/1/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
Students worked on their large ROV's. Work was guided by the group-developed ROV priority lists.

ASSIGNED WORK:

TUESDAY, 2/27/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
See the ROV page. Students worked on finishing their small ROV's today. When finished, students began working on their large ROV's. This process was scaffolded somewhat by first having large ROV groups produce a priority list of things that need to be completed. As students complete their small ROV's and are checked off, they are to turn to this group-generated ROV priority task list, select a high priority item, put their name next to the item, and start work on it.
Work on the large ROV's should be guided so that any materials that still need to be purchased are ordered ASAP.

ASSIGNED WORK:

FRIDAY, 2/23/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
See the ROV page. Students worked on building small ROV's today.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 2/22/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
See the ROV page. Students continued worked on building small ROV's today.

ASSIGNED WORK:

TUESDAY, 2/20/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
See the ROV page. Students worked on building small ROV's today.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 2/15/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
See the ROV page. Students worked on building small ROV's today.

ASSIGNED WORK:

TUESDAY, 2/13/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will gain experience with ROV's by building one in a smaller group of four students.
Before anything else, students cleaned out their red tool boxes and inventoried their required parts. Mr. K checked students off when completed with this task.

A set of power supply leads.
A breadboard.
Two alligator jumpers.
A pair of needle nose pliers.
A pair of side cutters.
A pair of wire strippers.

See the ROV page. Students worked on building small ROV's today.

ASSIGNED WORK:

THURSDAY, 2/8/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will understand how to utilize an Arduino and PWM to control a motor.
Students finished the PWM Motor Control Lab as needed.
Students worked on this TinkerCad Simulated H-Bridge Activity. In this activity, students will utilized an online simulator to wire and program an H-bridge controlled by an Arduino. In this activity, a switch is used to control motor direction. What does not get completed in class will be due on 2/13.

ASSIGNED WORK:

TinkerCad Simulated H-Bridge Activity (DUE 2/13)
Watch these How to Build an Underwater ROV videos. You will be following these general instructions next week as you build your own ROV within small groups. (DUE 2/13)

TUESDAY, 2/6/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will understand how to utilize an Arduino and PWM to control a motor.
Students worked on this PWM Motor Control Lab on an individual basis. The purpose of this lab is two fold. First, students will see who pulse-width-modulation works via the use of an Arduino. Secondly, students will begin to understand how to program an Arduino to make it do what you want.

ASSIGNED WORK:

PWM Motor Contol Lab (DUE 2/8)

MONDAY, 2/5/18

OBJECTIVE: Students will understand how MOSFETs work, how they would work in an H-bridge arrangement, and how they could be used as a voltage level shifter.
Solutions for the H-Bridge worksheet assigned last week will be posted on the white board in the classroom.
For the sake of review, students were given H-Bridge Using MOSFETs Worksheet #2 to work through.

ASSIGNED WORK:

H-Bridge Using MOSFETs Worksheet #2 (DUE TODAY)

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