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    About Technology & Engineering
     
    Technology & Engineering is a course centered on STEM-related topics.  STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.  While the emphasis is on technology and engineering (including many career experiences for engineering, applied engineering, and technology fields), we highlight the strong connections these fields have to math and science, and vice versa.

    The class is organized around the following areas: 1) Civil and Structural Engineering Technology, 2) Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, and Transportation Technology (including forces, energy, velocity, acceleration, simple machines, and Newton's Laws of Motion), 3) Robotics & Automation Engineering Technology, and 4) Product Design and Materials Engineering Technology.

     

    Current Units and Projects

    Please click on one of the red links below to find out more about the awesome activities and topics in Technology & Engineering!

     

    Unit 1:  Civil & Structural Engineering Technology

    The Civil & Structural Engineering unit provides students with the opportunity to explore the areas of structural engineering, design, and testing.  Students are required to design, construct, and test solutions to complex structural challenges that seem difficult or impossible at first.  In each activity, students study structural principles that prepare them for success.  Students then construct their solution and put it to the test in competition with their classmates.  The unit is divided into three sections:

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    House of Cards

    Bowling Ball Tower  

    Bowling Ball Tower

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    Bridge of Popsicle Sticks


    Unit 2:  Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering Technology

    The unit on Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering Technology provides students with the opportunity to explore the topics of forces, mass, velocity, acceleration, momentum, and impulse.  Students are required to design, construct, a vehicle that races down the inclined track to collide with another team's vehicle coming from the other direction.  In this "winner-takes-all" challenge, students attempt to derail or destroy the opponent's vehicle.  In the second challenge, students attempt to protect the occupants of their vehicle - raw eggs.  Uncracked eggs survive, cracked eggs do not.  

      

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     Rubber Band Car - Velocity, Acceleration

     Collision Course

    Collision Course:  Mass, Velocity, Momentum, & Acceleration

     Crash

    Impulse 3.0:  Impulse & Collisions


    Unit 3:  Robotics & Automation Technology

    The Robotics & Automation unit provides students with the opportunity to explore the areas of robotics, mechanical design, programming and coding, and automation technologies.  Students are required to design, construct, and code robots for each assignment so that their robot meets the requirements and is prepared to compete against other classmates' robots in competition.  The unit is divided into three sections:

     

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    Robotics & Automation 

     

    Unit 4:  SOLIDWORKS - Product Design & Prototyping Technology

    The Product Design and Prototyping unit provides students with the opportunity to explore the areas of mechanical and industrial design, prototyping, mass production, programming and coding, and automation technologies.  Students are required to design, prototype, and produce solutions to the given challenges.  Students will explore and learn to use SolidWorks (a leading solid modeling, computer-aided design (CAD), and computer-aided engineering (CAE) computer program used by millions of engineers and designers in companies across the globe) and 3D printing technology to produce solutions.

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     a Product Design & Prototyping

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    Course Sequence

    Grading

    All projects and assignments are worth a certain amount of points.  Bigger projects are worth more than smaller ones.  Points are entered into the gradebook and are weighted as follows:
    • Classwork = 80%
    • Engineering Notebook = 10% 
    • Participation = 10%