Visitors!

Great to see engineering alumnus Hunter, Thomas and Joe today. Very satisfying to get to see these guys. Little Danish snuck in too!

Hall of Justice

Every super hero team needs a "base" to work out of. Today's final for the Principles of Engineering course had our engineers using circuit design and centroid analysis to develop the layout of their team's Superhero Headquarters.

Each team had to choose the six rooms that were most important to their team (living quarters, command center, research lab, etc.). Each of these rooms had a unique geometric shape and associated resistor value to simulate it on their "power grid". A successful "base" would be able to create a circuit with both parallel and series components (rooms laid out side by side or in a row) to create a total circuit resistance of 500 to 1000 ohms. The test would be to hook up a 9V battery and LED so that the LED was powered (not too much resistance in circuit) but would not blow out (not too little resistance in circuit). Finally, each team had to determine the centroid, or point at which their layout balanced using centroid analysis:

First!

Daniel, Ian, Conner and Monti have got their controller and motors hooked up to their battery and everything works. Nice job!

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?

Thanks Mr Mueller :)

Centroids

Essential Question... Statics

How can we use an understanding of statics to build the most efficient manila file folder bridge?

These are our first attempts prior to our unit on statics. How will our designs improve when we play again at the end of the unit?
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