ENGIN 103 Fall ’11 ELECTRONIC SYLLABUS

(Will be updated before every class)

Individual grades        Team grades

           

Class

Date

Activities

Design Concepts

LabVIEW

Other Concepts

Class notes

Do

Topics

Optional

(DCE)

Topics

Read (LV8.0)

Topics

Read

1

Sept. 6

Team webmaster

Project 0

Google Groups:

Section 1

Section 2

What is Engineering?

Discover Engineering

Nat. Soc. Pro. Eng.

Am. Soc. Eng. Educ.

1.1-1.4

LabView installation

1.1-1.4

Policies and Grades

Intro to Projects

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2

Sept. 8

Brainstorming

Internet

  Teamwork 1

 

Teamwork; Brainstorming;

Strategies for searching the Internet  

3.1-3.2;

4.6

 

 

Strategies for problem solving

Effective problem solvers

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3

Sept. 13

Slides

Preparing for Presentations

Engineering Options

Greatest Eng. Achieve.

Effective Communication I 

Effective Communication II

7.1-7.3

7.4-7.7

 

 

Group problems 1

Group problems 2

Constructive feedback

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4

Sept. 15

P0 –Part I due

Team Presentations

Peer Evaluations Pt. I

 

 

 

Team webmaster 

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5

Sept. 20

P0 – Part II  due

Project 1

Team Presentations

Peer Evaluations Pt. II

 

 

 

Pendulum

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6

Sept. 22

CW1

Eng & Science

      CW2

What is design? 

Design cycle/ A design example

 

LabVIEW Basics

 

 

 

7

Sept. 27

CW2

CW 3

P0 reports due

P0 web pages due 

 Data Modeling

 

 

1.5-1.10

Curve Fitting w/ Excel 

 

8

Sept. 29

 CW 4

Data Modeling

What is design? 

Design cycle/ A design example

 

 

1.5-1.10

Curve Fitting w/ Excel 

 

9

Oct. 4

 CW 4 

Curve Fitting w/ Excel 

2.1-2.5

LabVIEW Basics

Virtual Instruments

2.1-2.5

 

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10

Oct. 6

CW 5

 Logbook due

P1 PR

Documentation as a Design Tool

3.3

Editing and Debugging

 

3.1-3.2

Engineer Code of Ethics

A Binary Primer

Campus resources

 

11

Oct. 11

  P1 Part I due

Project 1 Presentations

S-3-126

 

 

 

 

 

12

Oct. 13

P1 Part II due

 

Project 1 Presentations

S-3-126

 

 

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P1 extra credits 

Due Oct. 27

 

13

Oct. 18

 HW1

CW 6

 

Introduction to LabVIEW

 

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Circuit analysis with LabVIEW I

Circ I.1  Circ I.2 

 

14

Oct. 20

Project 2

 P1 doc due

Web Page due

 

Circuit analysis with LabVIEW II

Circuit analysis with LabVIEW I

 3.4; 4.1-4.3

 LabVIEW Basics

 

 

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4.1-4.3

Strategies for problem solving

Effective problem solvers

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15

Oct. 25

CW 6

 

  Estimation; Prototyping; Project management

 Documentation as a Design Tool

3.3;

4.5-4.7

 Circuit analysis with LabVIEW III

SubVIs II

4.4-4.7

 

 

16

Oct. 27

CW 7

CW 8

HW 2

 

 Circuit analysis with LabVIEW IV-SubVI

  Computer as a Design Tool II

4.8-4.11

 Circuit analysis with LabVIEW III

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17

Nov. 1

HW 1 due

 CW 9

P2PR

 Circuit analysis with LabVIEW IV-SubVI

Writing Technical Reports

7.4-7.5

 Plotting functions with LabVIEW I -For Loop 

5.4 & 5.6

 

 

18

Nov. 3

CW 10

Logbook due

 HW 3

 

Anti-gravity Project Estimation using Kinematics

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The For Loop & Arrays and Clusters &Waveform Graphs

 

 

 

19

Nov. 8

P2 due

 P2 Part I

HW 2 due

Project 2 Presentations

S-3-126

Project 2 Day 1 results

 

 

 

 

 

20

Nov. 10

 P2 Part II

  HW 4

Project 2 Presentations

S-3-126

Project 2 Day 2 Results

 

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21

Nov. 15

 Project 3

 CW 11

P2 doc due

   Web Page due

HW 3 due

Blank Book PR 2

 Anti-gravity Project Estimation using Kinematics  

4.12

Case Structure & Formula Node

 Time of flight with LabVIEW -Case Structure

5.1;

6.1-6.2; 6.7;

7.2

 

 

22

Nov. 17

 CW 11

 CW 12

 HW5

  Digital representation:

A/D D/A conversions

Pr2 survey

 

Arrays & Bundles & XY Graphs

6.1; 6.7; 7.3

 

23

Nov. 22

 CW 12

 

Multiple Plots & Curve fitting with LabVIEW

Digital Numbers

Ergonomics

5.1-5.4

The For Loop & Bundles & Waveform Graphs

11.2

   Plotting functions with LabVIEW II;

 

24

Nov. 29

 HW 6

P3PR

 Plotting  Cos with any Frequency

Role of Failure in Engineering Design

6.1-6.3

  Curve Fitting w/ LabVIEW and Multiplot

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  Plotting Cos with any Frequency and Use of Sub-VI

 

25

Dec. 1

 CW 13

HW4 due

 

26

Dec. 6

 P3 p I

P3 due

Project 3 Presentations

S-3-126  (in class)

Results

 

 C. Project rules

 Wave files 1

 Wave files 2 

 

 Extra credits

 a     b     c     d     e     f  

 

27

Dec. 8

 P3 p II

 

Logbook due

HW5 due

 

 

Project 3 Presentations

S-3-126 (in class)

Results

 

 Sample file with five frequency components

(Right click, Save as)

 

 Another sample file for spectrum detection

(Right click, Save as)

 

28

Dec. 13

P3 doc due

Web page

Due

HW 6 due

Review

Final exam sign up

 

 

  a     b     c     d     e     f  

29

 

 

 

Dec. 16-22

 logbook questions

Final exam in

S-3-126

8:00-11:00AM

 

Logbook is required to take the final!

 

 

20% of grade

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