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Engineering Design Curriculum Introduction Videos
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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.