POE

Principles of Engineering

Through problems that engage and challenge, students explore a broad range of engineering topics, including mechanisms, the strength of materials and structures, automation, and motion. Students develop skills in problem solving, research, and design while learning strategies for design process documentation, collaboration, and presentation.

Principles of Engineering (POE) is a foundation course of the high school engineering pathway. This survey course exposes students to some of the major concepts that they will encounter in a postsecondary engineering course of study. Through problems that engage and challenge, students explore a broad range of engineering topics, including mechanisms, the strength of materials and structures, automation, and kinematics. The course applies and concurrently develops secondary level knowledge and skills in mathematics, science, and technology. Students have the opportunity to develop skills and understanding of course concepts through activity-, project-, and problem-based (APB) learning. By solving rigorous and relevant design problems using engineering and science concepts within a collaborative learning environment, APB learning challenges students to continually hone their interpersonal skills, creative abilities, and problem solving skills. Students will also learn how to document their work and communicate their solutions to their peers and members of the professional community. It also allows students to develop strategies to enable and direct their own learning, which is the ultimate goal of education.

The following is a summary of the units of study that are included in the course.

Unit 1: Energy and Power

1.1: Mechanisms

                • Simple Machines: Lever, Wheel and Axle, and Pulley

                • Simple Machines: Inclined Plane, Wedge, and Screw

                • Gears

1.2: Energy Sources

                • Energy Distribution

                • Electrical Circuits

                • Work, Energy, and Power

1.3: Energy Applications

                • Thermodynamics

Unit 2: Materials and Structures

2.1 Statics

                • Centroids

                • Beam Deflection

                • Free Body Diagrams

                • Moments

                • Truss Properties

2.2 Material Properties

                • Manufacturing

                • Recycling

2.3 Material Testing

                • Stress & Strain

Unit 3: Control Systems

3.1 Machine Control

                • Inputs & Outputs

                • Loops

3.2: Fluid Power

                • Pneumatic Power

                • Hydraulic Power

Unit 4: Statistics and Kinematics

4.1 Statistics

4.2 Kinematics

                • Ballistics




Quiz Retakes

  • All quiz retakes or make ups MUST be done either before school or during flex. They cannot be done during class time or from another location besides my classroom.

  • There are only two attempts available for each quiz/test retake with only one attempt per day.

  • Retakes must be done within 3 to 5 class days of the original date of the assignment unless the teacher decides to give additional time. Final dates will be indicated in class, eLearn and/or the calendar.

  • Final quiz grades will the the average of your attempts.

  • Retake grades will be updated in the grade book once the retake period has closed.