(10 Dec 2013) Message from the FYELC...
Dear GE1110 or GE1111 student,
Please take 1 minute to complete this anonymous and confidential survey about the new First Year Engineering Learning Center (FYELC) in 368SN, regardless of whether you actually visited this semester and regardless of whether you are a first year engineering student. We are interested in hearing what you know and have to say about the new First Year Engineering Learning Center located in 368SN directly across from the Snell Engineering elevators. The First Year Engineering Learning Center opened in September 2013. The FYELC mission is to support all engineering students in their first year engineering coursework and design projects, especially in courses GE1110, GE1111, Chemistry, Physics and Calculus.
Click here to complete the online survey by Friday December 20, 2013: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5TMG28T . The survey should take 1 minute or less and can be accessed from any smartphone, tablet or laptop.
(9 Dec 2013) Message from Matt to the class...
Engineering Design Students,
When Chuck, Tristan and myself conceived this project last winter, we didn't even have a pencil and paper handy (just poles and skis). Eager to help mold young minds, Tristan and I met up at Conor Larkins to flush out what would become SLERP. As any good engineering students, we procrastinated until the start of the school year, but it wasn't long until we were head-first in development.
First-off, we appreciate you learning with us. As guinea-pigs, you help us to understand what worked and what didn't. In the end, you stepped up to the challenge, and hopefully produced something that you're proud of, and your peers are jealous of.
This project was about teams. Chuck convinced the Engineering Department to let us experiment & fine-tuned the project into modules. Joseph handled all the 3D, grading, and so much more I don't even know about, Tristan and I split the Wiki, H/W & S/W development. As students, you each worked together to make the mixer a reality.
Continued feedback is welcomed as you're reflecting on the course, just email me at wood.m@husky.neu.edu. I wish I could have been there for the presentations. I'll be back on campus in the Spring, if you want any "engineering secrets" feel free to copy down my email. Best of luck on your upcoming exams, and best wishes over the holidays!
Matt
(5 Dec 2013) I have re-posted Lecture
13, updated with a bit of a review in preparation for the
final. There are two online readings involved, which are
indicated there, but I'm posting the links here for you because
they are long to enter.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/28/229253610/the-coolest-thing-ever-how-a-robotic-arm-changed-4-lives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/nyregion/metro-north-train-accident-bronx.html.
There will also be a survey on the SLERP project to help us evaluate
it for use in future classes. That will be on the last page of the
exam. You can remove it and submit it anonymously at the end of the
exam.
Rules for the exam are the same as for the mid-term. Closed book, no notes, no calculators. The exam format will be the same as the midterm. The length should be about the same, but I will give you the full 2 hours to do it.
remember to bring your SLERP parts in a bag with your group number or name on it.
I need your reports and Peer Evaluations by Thursday, the 12th. It's easiest if you send the reports as .pdf and the evaluations as plain text in an email. Remember to evaluate yourself as well as your teammates.
If I don't have your powerpoint presentation from yesterday, please send it (a .pdf is best).
We'd appreciate your sharing any videos or photos you have of your project. Let us know if it's ok to post them.
(5 Dec 2013) Do your team's peer reviews for the SLERP project by email. The peer review on Blackboard was a failed attempt to generate a good peer review system there. I will take it down when I get a minute, but please ignore it. Someday I will find a way to automate this and maintain security, but this is not the semester.
(4 Dec 2013) There is some confusion about the final report. I want one report per team. In the syllabus I posted earlier, it said I wanted individual reports, while here I said team reports. I have corrected the syllabus (Revision F).
(2 Dec 2013) For Wednesday, (1) Bring your SLERP Mixer to class. (2) Demonstrate in about 8 minutes. Practice before you bring it in, of course. (3) Complete report (one by each group) and peer evaluations (one by each person) before Thursday 12 December, 11:59PM EST.
(1 Dec 2013) Joseph passed along the assignment for tomorrow... Draw 3 separate cups with diameters of 1'', 1.5'' and 2''. Combine your SLERP holder with each of these cups and create fully labeled drawings.
(26 Nov 2013) Don't forget to complete the course evaluations online for this and all your courses.
(24 Nov 2013, Revised 25 Nov 2013 as noted below) Here is a summary of all the important events and dates remaining in the term.
(12 Nov 2013) It has come to my attention that there is a conflict on due dates for L7, the SLERP clip design. In class we said it was due on Wed. 13 Nov, while on the 8th, I said it was due the 18th. The 18th is really late for the groups that might want to start fabrication then, so let's try to get these in Thursday, the 14th, and if you have them done for Wednesday, we'll accept them.
(11 Nov 2013) Two items today:
(8 Nov 2013) Here are several items that are of importance in the next week.
(31 Oct 2013) Opportunity for Freshmen in Engineering: The Gordon Scholars Program is hosting a Research and Outreach Session, Wednesday, 6 Nov from 111:00 to 12:00 in 431 Stearns. Please reply if interested. Here is the announcement and the application form.
Note that major project element M5 is due Saturday, and design homework D7 is due Monday.
(31 Oct 2013) Mark Freeman from Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory is coming on Thursday, October 31 at 3 PM to 20 WVF. Download the review form and submit to me for extra credit.
(23 Oct 2013) Please complete the mid-term evaluation of the course at http://www.coe.neu.edu/coe/undergraduate/studentservices/survey.html.
(8 Oct 2013) Instructions for Lab Homework L5, due Wednesday in class, are now posted ( L5). Joseph will be in the classroom to collect these assignments at the start of class Wednesday. Please note that, as mentioned on Monday, your M4 presentations will be done on Thursday.
(4 Oct 2013) Students are invited to attend the Industrial Engineering Forum on Wednesday, 9 October at 11:45AM in 168SN. See the announcement here.
(29 Sep 2013) There will be 3 presentations scheduled for all GE1110 classes. Extra credit wil be given for attendance. The first is October 10th from 3:00 to 4:00 in 20 WVF, presented by 5 Wits Productions. Here is an announcement with more information. The second is October 31st from 3:00 to 4:00 in 20 WVF,by the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory. The third will be announced later. Attend the lecture and submit the Review form for credit.
(23 Sep 2013) I will bring potentiometers and switches with wires soldered to them at Wednesday's class. This should make the rest of the projects a bit easier for most groups. There have been problems with the bare components, and the problems have not been consistent from group to group. In some cases the parts fit too tightly and in some they are too loose. The wired parts will work much better.
(23 Sep 2013) The final exam has been scheduled for Monday, 9 December, from 10:30AM to 12:30PM. The room will be determined later.
(16 Sep 2013) It seems I've forgotten to include a USB cable in the parts. You may be able to borrow one of these from a printer or other device, or get one at Radio Shack. The cable looks like this. If anyone has trouble finding one, I may have a spare in my lab.
(15 Sep 2013) There is no lab assignment, L1. The first homework in the lab will be L2.
(11 Sep 2013) Here are the teams for the
projects. As I said in class, if you want to arrange a swap
please do so this week and let me know. By Monday, the list
will be final.
(11 Sep 2013) Electronic Submissions If you submit work
electronically, please (1) Use a single .pdf file attached to the
email, unless something else is requested (eg. a video). Other
types of files may not look the same in my software as they do in
yours. A .pdf will (usually) look the same. (2) put your name on
the document, as I may print it, and when I do, I lose the
identifying information that might be in the filename or the "from"
line of the original email.
(11 Sep 2013) The old SLERP link above went to an odd place, where
you had to prowl around for the wiki. It was there, but not
obvious. I fixed the link so it goes directly there now.
(11 Sep 2013) Tutoring for Freshman courses is available.
See the schedule.
(7 Sep 2013)Solidworks is available for COE students to download.
A link is posted above.
(3 Sep 2013) I've posted a link to the prject page above. Thanks
to Tristan and Matt for their ongoing efforts on this project.
The College of Engineering will place the parts order this week and
we should have these next week. We need to organize the class into
groups of five people each. If you have a group of up to five
students who would like to work together, let me know. If not,
don't worry. Next week, I'll make the group list final and make
sure everyone has a group. There are 30 students in the class and
so I would like to make each group exactly five students.
I've posted the notes for today and tomorrow above. For those of
you who will miss class because of the holiday, please take time to
read Chapter 1 and look over the notes. Check with your classmates
for any information that I offer in class. There will be no
graded in-class activity Thursday. L'Shana Tova.
If you have access to an older edition of the CAD book, you may
find that there are some minor differences that may incude some of
the problems we are doing. If you check the homework assignments
carefully against the most recent edition (from a friend or on
reserve in the library), you should be able to use the older
edition.
(2 Sep 2013) The first draft of the syllabus is posted above.
We'll be meeting in the classroom (017SL, Room 17 in the Snell
Library; enter the door in the large vertical structure on the
Library and go downstairs) on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and in the
computer classroom, 429 Dana on Mondays. There are still some guest
lectures and assignments that are being prepared. The syllabus and
this site will be updated as these are done.
(12 May 2013) Welcome to GE1110, Engineering Design. I will use
this web page to post information about the course. I prefer this
to Blackboard, which I find slow and difficult to use. I will use
Blackboard to maintain the gradebook, because I don't want to trust
myself to write something with the security and privacy features
that are required for that purpose.
If you are a student in my section and have questions about the
course, please feel free to send me email. I am looking forward to
teaching this course again after some years away from it.
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