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Welcome to the EG1003 Online Lab Manual website. This site contains all the academic material you need for the course. For administrative matters such as lab report submission, please visit eg.poly.edu.

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

Course Information

• Comments from Course Director
• The Course
• Structure
• Teamwork
• Ethics
• How to Use the EG1003 Websites
• How to Submit Work to the EG1003 Website
• Safety Guidelines
• Safety Guidelines Presentation
• Keeping a Laboratory Notebook
• Display Case Presentation

EG 1003 Syllabus Content

• Introduction to EG1003
• EG1003 Syllabus
• Introduction to EG for UAI
• Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
• EG1003 Grading Policy
• Absence and Lateness Policies
• Plagiarism
• Software Requirements

Laboratory Experiments

Write-ups

• Lab 1A — Introduction to Microsoft Office
• Lab 1B — Virtual Product Dissection
• Lab 1C — Introduction to 3D Printing
• Lab 2 — Boom Construction Competition
• Lab 3 — Product Evaluation
• Lab 4 — CAD Competition
  • 3D Modeling and CAD Video
  • CAD Guide
• Lab 5 — Prototyping with Microcontrollers, Sensors, and Materials
  • 3D Printing and Prototyping Video
• Lab 6 — Modelshop Session I
• Lab 7 — Introduction to LabVIEW
• Lab 8 — Digital Logic
  • NI ELVIS Tutorial Video
• Lab 9 — Modelshop Session II
• Lab 10 — Sustainable Energy Vehicle Competition
  • Digital Multimeters Guidelines
• Lab 11 — Biomedical Forensics

PowerPoint Presentations

• Lab 1A & 1C — Software for Engineers
• Lab 1B — Virtual Product Dissection
• Lab 2 — Boom Construction Competition
• Lab 3 — Product Evaluation
• Lab 4 — CAD Competition
• Lab 5 — Prototyping with Microcontrollers, Sensors, and Materials
• Lab 6 — Modelshop Session I
• Lab 7 — Introduction to LabVIEW
• Lab 8 — Digital Logic
• Lab 9 — Modelshop Session II
• Lab 10 — Sustainable Energy Vehicle Competition
• Lab 11 — Biomedical Forensics

Semester-Long Design Project

Project Information

Please read the RFP for your project carefully. Any deviation from these specifications must be approved by your recitation professor.

• Introduction to the Semester-Long Design Projects (SLDPs)
• Spring 2020 Configurations
• Open Lab Rules
• Rapid Assembly & Design Challenge (RAD)
• Biomedical Device (BMD)
  • Technical Online Library
• Housing & Innovation in Revit (HIR)
  • Revit How-To
  • How to Make an STL File From a Revit File
• Bomb Disarming Robot (BDR)
• Retrieval & Delivery System (RDS)
• Search & Recovery Robot (SRR)
• Mars Rover Robot (MRR)
  • VEX Building Guide
  • VEX CAD Assembly Guide
  • VEX Library Guide
  • Price list for VEX parts for robot projects

Project Submission

• Submission Guidelines
• Online Submission FAQs

Help & How-Tos

• General SLDP
  • Teamwork Agreement Instructions
  • Microsoft Project Summary Sheet
  • Microsoft Project Student Guide Presentation
  • How to plan the schedule and calculate costs for a project
  • How to Show Cost Data in Presentations
• Prototyping
  • Prototyping Guide
  • 3D Printing Cura Guide
• LEGO EV3
  • Robot Construction Tips
  • Lego Digital Designer Skill Builder
  • Price list for Lego parts for robot projects
  • Sensors (EV3)
  • Sensors Tutorial
  • Sensors Training

Help & How-Tos

Technical Writing

• EG 1003 Writing Style Guide
• WC Lab Report Rubric
• WC RAD FDR Rubric
• WC LEED Report Rubric
• Sample Lab Report
  • Sample Lab Report Write-Up

WC Presentations

• How to Write EG 1003 Lab Reports (including Passive Voice)
• Citing Sources
• Writing as an Engineer (including Introductions, Language, and Paragraphs)
• Sample Lab Report (including Equations, Table, and Figures)
• Storytelling (including Capitalization, Numbers, and Acronyms)
• Data Is Your Story
• Writing as a Professional
• Team Writing
• Resumes
  • NYU Wasserman Resume Guide and Samples
• Writing in Engineering

Technical Presentations

• EG1003 Lab Presentation Format
• How to Give a Recitation Presentation
• EG1003 Project Milestone Presentation Format
• How to give a Milestone Presentation
• How to give the Final Project Presentation
• Giving Effective Presentations
• Effective Slide Formats
• Giving the Presentation
• Blunders to Avoid

Archived Pages

Pages kept for historical purposes can be found in The Archive.

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