This portion of the course will focus on analyzing, modeling, building, and testing the equipment required for the Freshman Engineering Honors design project. During the hours allocated for this course, there will be some lectures on the technical approach to design, mathematical calculations required, and various laboratory tools and techniques that might be helpful in completing the design. A portion of the class time will be for open lab where students may work on their projects with instructors available to answer questions. Class Meeting Times and Credit. All class sessions will be held in HI 011.
Course credit is four hours.
Integration of Courses. The design project for this course is a robot. The design and construction of the robot will require the use of at least parts of all of your previous FEH program courses. A separate document will provide the design project guidelines and contest rules. Students will purchase materials for the project in lieu of a textbook.