Randolph, Travis

 

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Office Hours: 
My office hours will be Thursday's after school from 2:20 - 3:20 in Room C108.  I will be around most days after school if you would like to pop in and get a question answered.  Remember additional help will be available during ACAPrep Hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Be sure to use the Flex Time manager to sign up for help.

List of Materials:

• Pen (Blue or Black)
• Pencil
• Calculator with basic trigonometric functions: sig, cos, and tang.  It does not need to have be graphing calculator for this class.  For this course something like a TI-83 will work fine. 
• An engineering notebook will be supplied.  

 Introduction to Engineering Design

Course Description:

Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) is appropriate for all students who are interested in design and engineering. The major focus of the IED course is to expose students to the design process, research and analysis, teamwork, communication methods, global and human impacts, engineering standards, and technical documentation. Students will employ engineering and scientific concepts in the solution to engineering design problems. In addition, students use a state of the art 3D solid modeling design software package to help them design solutions to solve proposed problems. Several design projects will be constructed in our prototype lab.

Principals of Eningeering 

Course Description:

Principals of Engineering Design (POE) is a continuation of Introduction to Engineering (IED). The major focus of this course is to expose students to some of the major concepts that they will encounter in a post-secondary engineering course of study. Students have an opportunity to investigate engineering and high-tech career. POE gives students the opportunity to develop skills and understanding of course concepts through activity-, project-, and problem-based (APPB) learning. They will be introduced to des subjects such as statics, simple machines, electricity, and Programming in a hands-on way. Used in combination with a teaming approach, APPB learning challenges students to continually hone their interpersonal skills, creative abilities, and problem-solving skills based upon engineering concepts. It also allows students to develop strategies to enable and direct their own learning, which is the ultimate goal of education. 

Digital Electronics 

Course Description:

 Digital Electronics is the study of electronic circuits that are used to process and control digital signals. Digital electronics is the foundation of all modern electronic devices, such as cellular phones, MP3 players, laptop computers, digital cameras, high definition televisions, etc. The major focus of the DE course is to expose students to the use of combinational and sequential logic design, teamwork, communication methods, engineering standards, and technical documentation. Utilizing the activity-project-problem-based (APPB) teaching and learning pedagogy, students will analyze, design and build digital electronic circuits. While implementing these designs, students will continually hone their interpersonal skills, creative abilities and understanding of the design process.

Engineering Design and Developement

Course Description:

 Engineering Design and Development (EDD) is the capstone course in the PLTW high school engineering program. It is an open-ended engineering research course in which students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a well-defined and justified open-ended problem by applying an engineering design process. Students will perform research to select, define, and justify a problem. After carefully defining the design requirements and creating multiple solution approaches, teams of students select an approach, create, and test their solution prototype. Student teams will present and defend their original solution to an outside panel. While progressing through the engineering design process, students will work closely with experts and will continually hone their organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, their creative and problem solving abilities, and their understanding of the design process. Engineering Design and Development is a high school level course that is appropriate for 12th grade students. Since the projects on which students work can vary with student interest and the curriculum focuses on problem solving, EDD is appropriate for students who are interested in any technical career path. EDD should be taken as the final capstone PLTW course since it requires application of the knowledge and skills introduced during the PLTW foundation courses.