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Principles is a year long, project-based class. It is a course developed by Project Lead The Way and is one of the four engineering courses offered at the high school. Students will learn the mathamatics behind Mechanical, Electrical, Structural and Computer engineering and then engage those topics with hands on learning with hands on projects in the shop. Students have the opportunity to earn three RIT college credits.
Through problems that engage and challenge, students explore a broad range of engineering topics, including mechanisms, the strength of materials and structures, automation, robotics, fluid dynamics and motion. Students develop skills in problem solving, research, and design while learning strategies for design process documentation, collaboration, and presentation.
Allows students to develop strategies to enable and direct their own learning, which is the ultimate goal of education.
Unit 1: Energy and Power
Unit 1: Energy and Power
-Mechanical Mechanisms
-Energy sources and applications
-Electrical Engineering with circuits
Unit 2: Materials and Structures
Unit 2: Materials and Structures
-Statics
-Free body diagrams
-Truss Equations
Unit 3: Control Systems
Unit 3: Control Systems
-Machine control
-Programming
-Robotic construction and coding
-Robotic competition
Unit 4: Statics and Kinematics
Unit 4: Statics and Kinematics
-Free fall motion
-Collecting and interpreting data
-Kinematics
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