Welcome to Engineering Design!!

Want to get ahead and order your books? You need the student text book and project notebooks the first 3 projects. DO NOT try to order these books on Amazon or any other used book seller.  They will be more expensive!!

Call the publisher: "It's About Time". Tell Kesha Leets you are with JPII and you won't have to pay tax. 

Phone Numbers:

Office: 1-914-273-2233, ext. 592

Fax: 1-914-206-6444 

Engineering the Future

Student Textbook 

ISBN: 978-1-60720-514-2,  $20.93

It is also available as an eBook for $17.83

(you may also have the old one from Key Curriculum Press, if you get this at the Used Book Sale ISBN 978-1-55953-963-0)

Engineer's Notebook

First 3 Projects 

Project 1:  ISBN: 9781607205166 - $7.93

Project 2:  ISBN: 9781607205173 - $7.93

Project 3:  ISBN: 9781607205180 - $7.93

What are we going to learn?

Introduction to Engineering Design is a project-based learning experience exploring many facets and disciplines of engineering:

• • market research

  • prototype design and build

  • energy–saving technology

  • manufacturing

  • quality control issues

 Through the participation in four hands-on team projects, students have an opportunity to

• • see how science, mathematics, and engineering are part of their everyday world,

  • become technologically literate citizens

 It also teaches general skills such as

• • numeracy,

  • critical reading and analysis

  • writing reports and essays

  • problem solving

  • learning at a distance

Science topics will include

• • statics

  • stress and strain

  • mechanical advantage

  • thermodynamics

  • energy

  • fluid motion

  • hydraulics

• electric circuits

Students will regularly participate in groups and learn the important 21st Century skills:

• running a meeting

• brainstorming

• listening

• meeting deadlines

• documenting work

In addition, students will

• learn to use “Google SketchUp” (a CAD program) to take their designs to a professional level

  • participate in the Holocaust Remembrance essay contest and contemplate the ethics of the use of technology. 

Prerequisites:  Geometry and Chemistry.