Elementary General Engineering & Design

The Elementary General Engineering and Design (EGED) is a program that has been offered to high schoolers to engage with engineering at the university level since Fall 2010. Over many years, the program has transformed quite a lot through feedback from the students and their school.

Over longest running partner school, the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women (UAI), has been with the program since Fall 2011, pausing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just like our college classes, students in the EGED program also use our Course Website at https://eg.poly.edu.

Course Grade Breakdown

Table 1. EGED Course Grade Breakdown.

Item	Breakdown
Professional Development	10%
Benchmark Completion	10%
Milestone Presentation	20%
Project Completion	15%
Final Design Report	20%
Final Presentation	25%
Total	100%

Note that there is neither a midterm nor a final exam for this course.

Table 1 shows the grade breakdown for the EGED course offered beginning Spring 2023.

Course Schedule

The course schedule details the class meeting dates and times, along with the planned topics of each session.

Labs

Anyone in one of our Lab rooms are to follow established Safety Guidelines.

General Engineering offers a number of workshops that target different skills engineers use to complete projects. For more information on these workshops, see Technical Workshops. The EGED program offers a subset of these workshops as Labs:

• Circuitry
  • Circuitry Handout
  • Love-O-Meter Video
  • Love-O-Meter Code
  • Motorized Pinwheel Video
  • Motorized Pinwheel Code
• Arduino
• Computer-aided Design (CAD)
• Manufacturing

Projects

• Welcome to Elementary General Engineering & Design
  • Self-watering Flowerpot
  • Wearable Technology
• List of available materials
• Additional project resource slides

FDR Scaffolding Assignments

There may be references to a LEED Accreditation Report that is for a project not available to this program. Please ignore them.

• Scaffolding Assignment 1
• Scaffolding Assignment 2
• Scaffolding Assignment 3

Recitations

• Orientation: Welcome to Elementary General Engineering & Design
• Recitation 1: Emerging Global Topics
• Recitation 2: Engineering Design Process and Teamwork
• Recitation 3: Writing and the Final Design Report
  • Final Design Report Template
• Recitation 4: Professional Presentations
  • How to Give a Recitation Presentation
  • How to Give a Milestone Presentation
• Recitation 5: Milestone Presentations & Scaffolding Assignment 2
  • Sign up for Makerspace Training!
• Recitation 6: How to Give a Final Presentation
• Recitation 7: EG1004 Poster Session
• Recitation 8: EG1004 Project Showcase