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Revision as of 02:55, 27 September 2006
Table of contents
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.
Perspectives on EG1004
Success in EG1004
- The Course
- Structure
- Missing and Being Late for Class, and How to Make Up Work
- Teamwork
- Ethics
- Plagiarism
Introduction to EG1004
- How to use the EG1004 Web Sites
- How to submit work to the EG1004 Web Site
- EG1004 Grading Policy
- Safety Guidelines
- Keeping Your Laboratory Notebook
Laboratory Experiments
- Lab 1 - Software for Engineers I
- Lab 2 - Hot Air Balloon
- Lab 3 - Product Evaluation
- Lab 4 - Reverse Engineering
- Lab 4a - Mousetrap Car
- Lab 5 - Introduction to LabVIEW
- Lab 6 - Digital Logic
- Preparation for Sensors Lab, due at beginning of Sensors Lab
- Lab 7 - Sensors
- Lab 8 - Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation
- Lab 9 - Lemon Car
- Lab 10 - Electronic Filters
- Lab 11 - Boom Construction Competition
Laboratory Experiment Presentations
- Lab 1 - Software for Engineers I
- Lab 2 - Hot Air Balloon
- Lab 3 - Product Evaluation
- Lab 4 - Reverse Engineering
- Lab 4a - Mousetrap Car
- Lab 5 - Introduction to LabVIEW
- Lab 6 - Digital Logic
- Lab 7 - Sensors
- Lab 8 - Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation
- Lab 9 - Lemon Car
- Lab 10 - Electronic Filters
- Lab 11 - Boom Construction Competition
Instructional Web Pages
- How to Capture PC Screen Images
- How to Compress Your Files
- How to Include Pictures, Equations, and Spreadsheets in Your Presentations and Lab Reports
- Making Good Looking Equations in PowerPoint Presentations
- How to Handle Unusual Data
- How to Show Cost Data in Presentations
- Submitting EG1004 Work to the Digital Dropbox
- [[How to Clean Up Your Initial “MyPoly�? Screen]]
Instructional Presentations
- Introduction to EG1004 (348KB)
- Safety Guidelines (358KB)
- How to Write Lab Reports in EG1004 (93.5KB)
- How to Give a Recitation Presentation (233KB)
- How to give a Milestone Presentation (389KB)
- How to give the Final Project Presentation (356KB)
- Semester-Long Project Presentation (zip file) Warning! 23MB file!
- Writing Consultant Teamwork Presentation (156KB)
- Installing and Using MLCAD (zip file - 2.3MB)
- Exporting MLCAD to AutoCAD (395KB)
Semester-Long Projects
- Bomb Disarming Robot (BDR)
- Retrieval and Delivery System (RDS)
- Ice Station Autonomous Robot (ISAR)
- Railroad Train Guidance System
- Supermarket
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Material to help you with the project
- MS Project Skill Builder
- How to plan the schedule and calculate costs for a project
- Price list for Lego parts for robot projects
Project Forms
Component Testing Forms
- Bomb Disarming Robot (BDR)
- Retrieval and Delivery System (RDS)
- Ice Station Autonomous Robot (ISAR)
- Railroad Train Guidance System (RTGS)
- Supermarket
Commissioning Forms
- Bomb Disarming Robot (BDR)
- Retrieval and Delivery System (RDS)
- Ice Station Autonomous Robot (ISAR)
- Railroad Train Guidance System (RTGS)
- Supermarket
Early Submission Form
Helpful Links
Introduction to Technical Presentations
- Giving Effective Presentations
- Effective Slide Formats
- Giving the Presentation
- Blunders to Avoid
- EG1004 Lab Presentation Format
- EG1004 Project Milestone Presentation Format
Introduction to Technical Communication
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
- Instructions for Preparing your Final Proposal Cover Letter
- Final Proposal Cover Letter Guidelines
- Persuasion
- Team Authoring Strategies
- Editing
- Punctuation
- The Use of Articles