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Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age!
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Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO© MINDSTORMS© NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic© acceleration sensor. They use acceleration data collected during the launch to compute velocity and displacement vs. time graphs. In the process, students learn about the importance of fitting mathematical models to measurements of physical quantities, reinforce their knowledge of Newtonian mechanics, deal with design compromises, learn about data acquisition and logging, and carry out collaborative assessment of results from all participating teams.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Pavel Khazron
Date Added:
09/18/2014
PORTFOLIO IN THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT | Julie Evans
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This session reflects on how Wake Tech has pivoted in response to COVID-19 in regards to their GRD 280 Portfolio Design course. During this workshop, attendees are encouraged to bring student examples from their schools and share their own program’s successes (and challenges) as they’ve adapted their portfolio courses to the virtual environment.

Subject:
Design
Graphic design (Graphic arts)
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Julie Evans
Date Added:
09/30/2021
PRESENTING IN THE AGE OF COVID | Danielle Hennis
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The COVID-19 virtual world is here to stay for a while. Let’s make sure we’re planning our classes, meetings, and presentations so that they cater to our audiences and our message is heard. Come with questions, photos of your workspace (if you want feedback), and leave with tips to make your next virtual presentation a success.

Subject:
Design
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Danielle Hennis
Date Added:
09/20/2021
Race to the Top! Modeling Skyscrapers
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Working individually or in pairs, students compete to design, create, test and redesign free-standing, weight-bearing towers using Kapla(TM) wooden blocks. The challenge is to build the tallest tower while meeting the design criteria and minimizing the amount of material used all within a time limit. Students experiment with different geometric shapes used in structural designs and determine how design choices affect the height and strength of structures, becoming comfortable with the concepts of structural members and modeling.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Sara Pace
Date Added:
10/14/2015
Retrofitting a Children's Hospital with a Hurricane-Resistant Shell
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After conducting an assessment that showed their building’s vulnerability to wind damage, the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami looked for a way to improve safety for patients and staff.

Subject:
Architecture
CTE
Design
Material Type:
Case Study
Provider:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Provider Set:
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
Date Added:
08/29/2016
Rooftop Gardens
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Students explore whether rooftop gardens are a viable option for combating the urban heat island effect. Can rooftop gardens reduce the temperature inside and outside houses? Teams each design and construct two model buildings using foam core board, one with a "green roof" and the other with a black tar paper roof. They measure and graph the ambient and inside building temperatures while under heat lamps and fans. Then students analyze the data and determine whether the rooftop gardens are beneficial to the inhabitants.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Carleigh Samson
Denise W. Carlson
Stephanie Rivale
Date Added:
09/18/2014
STAYING AFLOAT WITH GRADING | Julie Evans & Jennifer Cobb
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In this workshop, we will share tips and tricks to stay afloat when it comes to grading. From a Google doc with daily notes to program-wide rubrics to video feedback, there are small changes that you can make to help you provide feedback to your students while reclaiming your weekend! Attendees are encouraged to bring their own grading tips and tricks to share with the rest of the group.

Subject:
Design
Graphic design (Graphic arts)
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Julie Evans
Jenniffer Cobb
Date Added:
09/30/2021
STUDENT RECRUITMENT | Hope Carroll
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Lost for ideas on how to recruit students to your program, especially in the middle of a pandemic? You have come to the right Zoom room! In this workshop we’ll cover how to market your program using social media, mailers, career fairs (virtual or F2F), how to connect with high schools and community, and much more. Bring your ideas to share with others and definitely bring something to take notes.

Subject:
Design
Graphic design (Graphic arts)
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Hope Carroll
Date Added:
09/30/2021
STUDENTS DESIGN FOR SMALL BUSINESS CLIENTS | Carla Osborne
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For three years, AGD students have partnered with Small Business Clients from the Entrepreneurship Initiatives programs at Wake Tech. Join Carla Osborne from Wake Tech to hear about how the process has evolved, lessons learned the hard way, and how the process has streamlined from introducing the students to groups to end-of-the-semester presentations.

Subject:
Design
Graphic design (Graphic arts)
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Carla Osborne
Date Added:
09/30/2021
Service-Based Engineering Design Projects
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This unit describes a general approach to guiding students to complete service-based engineering design projects, with specific examples provided in detail as associated activities. With your class, brainstorm ideas for engineering designs that benefit your community or a specific person in your community. Then, guided by the steps of the engineering design process, have students research to understand background science and math, meet their client to understand the problem, and create, test and improve prototype devices. Note that service-based projects often take more time to prepare, especially if you arrange for a real client. However, the authors notice that students of both genders and all ethnicities tend to respond with more enthusiasm and interest to altruistic projects.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Unit of Study
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Alison Pienciak
Denise W. Carlson
Eszter Horanyi
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Strong as the Weakest Link
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To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo compression and tension students examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building structure using marshmallows and spaghetti to see which structure can hold the most weight. In an associated literacy activity, students explore the psychological concepts of stress and stress management, and complete a writing activity.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Ben Heavner
Chris Yakacki
Denise Carlson
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Sum It Up: An Introduction to Static Equilibrium
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Students are introduced to static equilibrium by learning how forces and torques are balanced in a well-designed engineering structure. A tower crane is presented as a simplified two-dimensional case. Using Popsicle sticks and hot glue, student teams design, build and test a simple tower crane model according to these principles, ending with a team competition.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Alison Pienciak
Nicholas Hanson
Stefan Berkower
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Swamp Cooler
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Using a household fan, cardboard box and paper towels, student teams design and build their own evaporative cooler prototype devices. They learn about the process that cools water during the evaporation of water. They make calculations to determine a room's cooling load, and thus determine the swamp cooler size. This activity adds to students' understanding of the behind-the-scenes mechanical devices that condition and move air within homes and buildings for human health and comfort.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Denise W. Carlson
Landon B. Gennetten
Lauren Cooper
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Date Added:
10/14/2015
Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order: A Practical Perspective
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Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order demonstrates that even the best-laid project plans can be undone by new technologies, financial upheavals, or resource scarcity, to name just a few disruptors. It encourages project managers to focus on learning throughout a project, with the understanding that what they learn could necessitate major changes in midstream. This adaptive, flexible, living-order approach is inspired by Lean in construction projects and Agile in software development. Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order explains how today’s projects unfold in dynamic environments in response to unexpected events. With its practical tips, detailed graphics, links to additional resources, and interviews with engineering professionals, it’s an accessible introduction to the living order for aspiring project managers.

Subject:
Design
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
University of Wisconsin
Author:
Jeffrey Russell
John Nelson
Wayne Pferdehirt
Date Added:
01/13/2021
Truss Destruction
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Students work within constraints to construct model trusses and then test them to failure as a way to evaluate the relative strength of different truss configurations and construction styles. Each student group uses Popsicle sticks and hot glue to build a different truss configuration from a provided diagram of truss styles. Within each group, each student builds two exact copies of the team's truss configuration using his/her own construction method, one of which is tested under shear conditions and the other tested under compression conditions. Results are compiled and reviewed as a class to analyze the strength of different types of shapes and construction methods under the two types of loads. Students make and review predictions, and normalize strengths. Teams give brief presentations to recap their decisions, results and analysis.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Amanda Guiliani
Darcie Chinnis
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Scott Duckworth
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design 2
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This book is for advanced-level architecture and interior design students who have in-depth knowledge and skills with computer-aided visualization software. The author developed a total of twenty-two chapters to teach practical graphic presentation techniques for architectural presentations. Readers will learn these techniques by following step-by-step tutorials. This book includes multiple exercises for the reader's practice. After completing the tutorials, readers will be able to apply these techniques to their design projects.

Subject:
Design
Material Type:
Reading
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Provider Set:
Iowa State University Digital Press
Date Added:
08/22/2022
Type Connection Game
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Type Connection is a game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces.

Start by choosing a typeface to pair. Like a conventional dating website,
Type Connection presents you with potential “dates” for each main character—without the misleading profile photos and commitment-phobes. The game features well-known, workhorse typefaces and portrays each as a character searching for love. You are the matchmaker. You decide what kind of match to look for by choosing among several strategies for combining typefaces. Along the way, you explore typographic terminology, type history, and more. By playing Type Connection, you deepen your own connection with type.

Subject:
Design
Graphic design (Typography)
Material Type:
Game
Interactive
Author:
Aura Seltzer
Date Added:
10/06/2021
Wind-Resistant Construction Key to Rebuilding for Resilience
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After most of the city was flattened by a tornado, Joplin, Missouri’s Mercy Hospital built a new facility, incorporating features to reinforce its resistance to wind.

Subject:
Architecture
CTE
Design
Material Type:
Case Study
Provider:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Provider Set:
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
Date Added:
08/29/2016
Working Together to Live Together
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Students experience civil and environmental engineering by planning a housing development in an existing biome, while also protecting the native species that live there. They conduct research, draw plans, make brochures and give presentations, with each team having a member serving as a project manager, civil engineer, environmental engineer and graphic designer. The best designs creatively balance the needs and resources necessary to support both the native species and human infrastructure.

Subject:
Design
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Marissa H. Forbes
Myla Van Duyn
Date Added:
09/18/2014