Exploring Technology & ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Course Descriptions

963 Exploring Technology: DAC no level 9, 10, 11, 12 TERM 3 credits

Exploring Technology: Design, Automation, & Communication (DAC) is taught as a hands-on project-based course where the students will learn about the basics of engineering design, automation of machines, and various communication systems. The students will extensively work in cooperative teams to complete hands on projects.

964 Exploring Technology: PET no level 9, 10, 11, 12 TERM 3 credits

Exploring Technology: Power, Energy, & Transportation (PET) is taught as a hands-on project-based course, similar to Exploring Technology: DAC. Students will learn about Electrical/Power Technology, Mechanical Technology, and Transportation Technology. Through the building and testing of projects, students will learn the concepts behind these technologies as well as skills of working within engineering design teams.

954 Engineering Technology: DCM no level 9, 10, 11, 12 SEMESTER 6 credits

This course was formerly part of a full-year course titled Engineering Technology.

In Engineering Technology: Design, Construction, & Manufacturing (DCM), students will learn important technological and engineering related skills and concepts, including an introduction to Engineering Design, Construction Technologies, and Manufacturing Technologies. Students will be designing, building and testing prototype models that cover these concepts. Students will also learn about product design, accurate measurements using a variety of instruments and technologies, application of algebra to engineering problems, and application of physics concepts to real world products.

955 Engineering Technology: SHEL no level 9, 10, 11, 12 SEMESTER 6 credits

This course was formerly part of a full-year course titled Engineering Technology.

In Engineering Technology: Sound, Heat, Electricity & Light (SHEL), students will learn important technological and engineering related skills and concepts, including an introduction to Communication Technologies, and Energy and Power Technologies (Fluid, Thermal and Electrical systems). Students will be designing, building and testing prototype models that cover these concepts. Students will also learn about product design, accurate measurements using a variety of instruments and technologies, application of algebra to engineering problems, and application of physics concepts to the real world.

Exploring Technology & engineering technology projects

Here are some of the projects students have worked on in recent years:

trebuchet

Students learned about the physics of a trebuchet. They then designed and built model trebuchets using wooden sticks, nuts, bolts and wheels.

toy maglev cars

Students built DC motor - propeller powered toy cars to race on our maglev tracks. Video of a toy maglev car in action.

BoomiLever Challenge

Students tried to design and construct the lightest possible truss cantilever to support a 2 pound weight at a distance of 55 cm from the fixed end of the cantilever. More about the boomilever project...

protect the potato chip!

Students were asked to construct a pneumatic-powered vehicle to safely carry a potato chip to a target twenty feet away. Video of a potato chip transporter in action.

Delta dart Glider

Students constructed basswood and paper gliders, with the twin goals of learning what makes gliders fly, and trying to make the glider with the longest air-time. More about the glider project...

PaperBowl Loudspeaker

Students learned how loudspeakers work. They constructed loudspeakers using paper bowls, magnet wires and magnets, and tested them.

Mini Hovercraft

Students learn how hovercrafts work. Using a battery-powered micro DC motor, a propeller, and scrap material, they design and build mini-hovercrafts.

Catapult Challenge

Students design and build catapults, using 8 popsicle sticks, two rubber bands, masking tape, and a piece of paper, with the goal of hurling a popcorn kernel the farthest distance.

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