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Welcome to the EG1004 Online Manual Web site. This site contains all the academic material you need for the course. For administrative matters the Web site is eg.poly.edu.

You can click on anything underlined on this page to link to the material.

Lab Menu

Introduction to EG1004

• Safety Guidelines
• Keeping Your Laboratory Notebook

Laboratory Experiments

• Lab 1 - Introduction to Engineering Computing Skills
• Lab 2 - Hardware Analysis and Synthesis
• Lab 3 - Reverse Engineering
• Lab 4 - Introduction to LabVIEW
• Lab 5 - Digital Logic
• Lab 6 - Sensors
• Lab 7 - Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation
• Lab 8 - Hot Air Balloon Races
• Lab 9 - Electronic Filters
• Lab 10- Boom Construction Competition

Independant Projects

• Bomb Disarming Robot (BDR)
• Retrieval and Delivery System (RDS)
• Ice Station Autonomous Robot (ISAR)
• Railroad Train Guidance System
• Supermarket Sweep

Skill Builders

• AutoCAD Skill Builder
• MS Project Skill Builder

Success in EG

• The Course
• Structure
• Your Assignments
• Guidelines for Success
• Teamwork
• Ethics
• Plagiarism

Introduction to Technical Communication

• What Is It?
• Your Audience and Purpose

Technical Communication

• Introduction
• Specifications for Writing Your Lab Reports
• Introductions and Conclusions
• Active and Passive Voice
• Creating a Logical Argument
• Descriptions - Mechanism and Process
• Writing Numbers, Units of Measure, and Equations
• Graphics in Technical Reports
• Writing Software Documentation
• Specifications for Writing Your Proposals
• Proposal Specifications - House
• Proposal Specifications - Robot
• Persuasion
• Team Authoring Strategies
• Editing
• Punctuation
• The Use of Articles

Tutorials

• MLCAD Guide