Unit 9: Virtual Team project

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PLTW IED Unit 9 objectives:

In this unit IED students will learn and practice processes to solve a design problem with a geographically separate teammate. You will also experience shared decision-making as your team investigates different materials, manufacturing processes, and the impacts that engineering decisions may have on society or potentially on the world. PLTW has two suggested projects: Product Lifecycle and Virtual Teams.

A virtual team is made up of people who rely primarily or exclusively on electronic forms of communication to work together to accomplish a goal. .........To develop a greater understanding of what it is like to function as an engineer in the 21^st century, engineering students must be willing to step outside of their comfort zone to experience teamwork through a virtual environment.

Search for answers online and also collaborate your teammates. There are resources online for you to see how to work with these programs.

The most important life skill that you are developing here is how to be resourceful.

Design Brief:

Background: You work for an engineering firm that designs machines to be manufactured overseas.

Your team of engineers uses autoDesk Inventor to model their designs to the clients and also to create working drawings for manufacturing.

Design Problem:

Due to the Coronavirus quarantine, all your designers are working from home and don't have Inventor on their home computers and are forced to find and learn new software.

Design Statement:

Learn and explain how to use online drafting tools to your coworkers so your company can continue to operate from home.

You must be resourceful, persistent, and use your visual graphic skills on the computer to communicate to your peers. Specifically(Design Brief): Create an oral and visual presentation that will explain how to work with the software interface, create a 2D sketch, using different sketching tools, Constrain to exact dimensions, Extrude, and use the Browser or other tools to edit the part in size, scale, adding holes, etc...

Online Learning at NPHS: Virtual Teams Project

New Providence IED students are collaborating together in teams to find a free online software to complete their automata machine invention while Sheltering in Place at home. They are unable to use our professional autoCAD Inventor program, which is on the desktop computers in our classroom at school. The free online downloads have only worked for two students. Most have computers that are incompatible with autoCAD Inventor.

Students are divided evenly into eight teams (2-3 collaborating students in each), to explore and compare two online software programs.Four teams are investigating OnShape , and 4 teams are investigating Fusion360.

All teams are welcome to help each other and share resources and discoveries. This is not a competition. Its all of us working together to choose which program is best. Each person does their own thing to contribute to the group, choosing how they will present the software to the class during our Zoom Meetings

4th period meets at 11am on Wednesdays, and 8th period meets at 11am Thursdays.

We will meet once a week to share our experiences, issues, and to help each other decide which software to use. Each team is responsible for a presentation (Google Slides or Powerpoint or online presentation, etc....) submitted into the Google Classroom assignment.

Fusion 360 installation:

(Installation and downloading instructions for your computer are also on a Google Doc, available in Google Classroom, with more details and I will update with our findings)

STEP 1: Go to website to DOWNLOAD FUSION 360

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/extended-access-program

And sign up, as a student at NPHS, filling in your email so they can verify you are a student.

Get a free education license

Fusion 360 is available for Mac and PC. Get Fusion 360 for educational institutions here

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators

STEP 2: GET ACCESS TO FUSION 360

Autodesk provides access for legitimate educational use. Please verify your eligibility to access Autodesk products with an Educational license.

STEP 3: DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE onto your computer.

This app is not available yet on our iPads. Hopefully, it will soon. Currently we are unable to purchase licenses for apps to be deployed in self service through VPP. We expect this to fixed soon. I will let everyone know when the app has been deployed to your iPads.

Notes: I documented my journey to set up each program and saved visuals and instructions in a Google Doc for each program. They are both posted in Google Classroom

AutoDesk Fusion was more complex, with more verifications and a download that required many hurdles. And, after setting up the AutoDesk Fusion 360, I was not greeted with convenient videos and online tutorials.

However, I was able to start my first modeling 3D platform for my first project and a link to “Find out what’s new” in navigation

Importing your Inventor Files into Fusion 360

There are resources online for you to see how to work with these programs.

Working with Inventor files within Fusion 360

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJqnz3qp-A - How to import .ipt files into Fusion 360

Project timeline:

April 23 - Teams Announced

Everyone filled out a survey to choose which software they'd like to try and who they would like to be teamed with in a presentation to the class.

On Thursday, 4/23, I divided both IED classes almost evenly into eight teams of 2-3 students on each team for Fusion360 or for OnShape.

4th period, 3 teams will investigate Fusion360 and 3 teams will investigate OnShape.

8th period, 1 team will investigate Fusion360 and 1 team will investigate OnShape.

April 27-30, Sharing experiences with downloading, verification, installation

No work in the program is expected. You have four days to download and open the program, look for tutorials.

On Wednesday/Thursday, April 27-29, we had a Zoom meeting to compare experiences and issues with downloading

Results: Most have tried, some have succeeded, and only one Fusion360 was able to download and begin, whereas OnShape students had no issues and are ready to go.

May 5-6 - Casual sharing of experiences -Images up to the software creation window

Please Submit images or screen shots of your monitor screen or any visuals that you have so far, documenting in your progress with the software, links to tutorials, and any feedback.

On Wednesday or Thursday, May 5-6, Zoom meeting to compare experiences and issues with trying it out, finding online tutorials, etc....

You should begin to prepare something to contribute, as a team, to inform us about your tutorials/resources so far with the software.

You could also take the time to put in a Google presentation, but that is NOT necessary at this point.

It will be casual with no formal presentations. You may be asked: "How are you and your teammate(s) sharing?"

During the zoom meeting, I will share your submitted images on: Wednesday, 5/6 for Period 4, and Thursday, 5/7 with period 8,

Because students can't use "screen share" in zoom, I will share my screen with your submitted images/presentations.

You can take each speak to the class on what you have experienced and the class can ask questions.

May 13-14 - Presentation of your works in progress - and a more format report on the software

You should have a presentation, as a team, to inform us about your software.

We will have a zoom meeting to see the presentations on:

Wednesday, 5/12 for Period 4, and

Thursday, 5/13 with period 8,

You can take each speak to the class on what you have experienced and the class can ask questions.

May 20-21 - Finish formal presentations, explaining /demonstrating achievements with online software

Objectives:

• Creating your automata figures and the cam to actual size and assembling the figures together
• Creating the automata box to actual size, assembling the five separate parts, with holes for the axle and followers
• Assembling the automata on top of the box, modeling the "Up-position" of the rotation of the cam
• Modeling the "Down-position" of the rotation of the cam, demonstrating the movement and the different positions of the working parts

Looking ahead, to final term paper: 3 weeks: May 27-June 11

• May 27-28 - Automata 3D modeling - illustrating the movement of parts, in up and down positions
• June 3 - 4 - Final automata presentation -
• June 10-11- Due date for Final Term Paper on Automata

June 17 - Last day of classes!