by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 30, 2018 | Distance Learning HS, Introduction to Engineering
This has been hailed by parents as the best lesson they have seen. Getting your students to understand it is okay to fail is going to be your biggest challenge. Show them how professionals deal with it every day and allow your students to explore their own...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 30, 2018 | Distance Learning HS, Introduction to Engineering
Engineering is problem solving, plain and simple. However, how you solve the problem requires information, analysis, and the ability to see where the problem lies. This unit allows students to explore how this can be done with a simple stress test that will get your...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 30, 2018 | Distance Learning HS, Introduction to Engineering
Communication is not just spoken and this unit hammers it home. Students must use technical drawings, technical reports, and an oral presentation to show how they are adept at all facets of Engineering communication. Technical Writing-Directions Technical Reports-...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 30, 2018 | Distance Learning HS, Introduction to Engineering
Taking up where the last unit left off, now the student is ready to communicate using drawings. The following lessons give the student a wide array of practice in how they can show what their design should look like. These two units form the basis of how students...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 30, 2018 | Distance Learning HS, Introduction to Engineering
Product testing and planning and succeeding does not sound like important units. However, students will be exposed to product testing, skills of a Systems Engineer, and an Experimental Drug Developer through this unit. Not to mention the fun of playing with products...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 30, 2018 | Distance Learning HS, Introduction to Engineering
Input, process, output, and feedback is the corner stone of what an Engineer does in testing the solutions they are working. Technical and Engineering Communication is reinforced here as students must defend their solution to the class. Systems and Optimization...
