First a note to all of you from me:  Each and every one of you has been a great pleasure this year.  I am amazed at your creativity and energy, and as I look over the roll, I can think of one special way in which each of you has excelled this year.  Thank you for being flexible as I tried out and evaluated a variety of instructional techniques through our year!

Monday: Professor Williams is overseeing class.  Work on your final project.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Report to 512 for active listening and review of Senior Research at Internship presentations.
Thursday and Friday: Final days to work on your projects in the Engineering Room
Sunday at midnight: Project link or file or picture is due in Google Classroom or via email.
Monday: Presentations of final project, and our last day together in Engineering.
Tuesday: Presentations of final project, and our last day together in Engineering.

Mon 5/9 - Room 510
Tue 5/10 - LL1 as usual
Wed 5/11 - 2040
Thu 5/12 - 2040
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MAJOR CHANGE:
Due to our class being displaced for the majority of this week, there will be NO small business project.  Instead, you will:
1. Edit and update your resume with me for a final submission
2. Attend, grade and write a reflection on one session of Senior Research at Internship Presentations
3. Complete your speaker
4. Do one of the options for the Final Exam - see rubric and directions below.

SBA website
Business Plans
Sample Business Plan
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Thermo Test is Tue/Wed.  I hope you tried and took notes on the review examples for psychometrics and the ideal gas law!  You will need to conversions for pressure, temp and vol to match the form of R I will give you.

Thermo Test: Mon and Tue

1.  Sign up for class Google classroom.  You will need to use your first name.last name@wheelerhigh.com or first name.last name@wheelermagnet.com email address.  Use code: 2fjjl2u
2.  Today's assignment is to use the resources listed in Google classroom and below to create a first resume for yourself.  Submit in Google Classroom by the end of class.  Work in a small group of 2-3 and have your resume peer edited by at least one peer before submission.

Resume Link 1
Resume Link 2_

Once you're done with that, go to www.sba.gov and click on Starting and Managing.  For your final small business project, you will create a business plan for a small business idea that you would like to propose.  Check out each part of the Writing a Business Plan sections.  You will create and present your idea, asking me and a panel of shark tank investors for a capital investment to get your business started.  

I apologize for the confusion last week.  Between STEAM Symposim, STEM recertification, a long meeting for me, and robotics/band/Latin Convention for you all, the week did not progress exactly according to plan.

Last Friday, Prof Williams and I lectured surveying, and I will do the same for Monday's class.
Tue/Wed: survey small group will present and classes will try out doing a level survey with our dumpy levels.  Do you think our classroom is level?
Thu/Fri: Small groups for thermo/heat transfer/PV=nRT will present and I will fill in any needed info
Mon/Tue: Small groups will present combustion engines and other apps of thermo
Wed/Thu: Psychrometrics/review for quiz
Fri/Mon: Surveying/therm quiz (yes, I will give different quizzes!)
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Skinny B Padlet

The usual topics in this unit are:

internal combustion engine: http://questgarden.com/81/18/9/090504103403/index.htm

psychrometrics: the best chart ever and how it is used

surveying: the transit and theodolite, maps of the earth, Buckminster Fuller (we have survey equipment to try out)

PV=nRT: the best party small-talk equation to know and dimensional analysis

​and topics that you suggest.

On Monday/Tuesday, we will form small groups based on interest to research the topic, answer specific questions, and direct a class activity.  I will meet with each group to go over the specifics that I want you to include in your presentation on Friday/Monday.  

By Topic and Project:
In the remaining weeks of April, we need to finish speakers (have you learned the essential lesson that engineering projects take far longer than expected?), 3-D printing (I am starting one pack tomorrow), and learning some thermo topics via lecture/notes and active learning.

In May, you will create a resume and a 60-180 sec video of you in Engineering.  You will also create a business plan for a small business of your choosing, using the SBA outline for proposing a small business, and you will present your idea via a Shark Tank scenario (I'd love volunteers for the judge panel, if any of your parent are interested!)  

By Week:
Apr 11: Intro to Thermo and Surveying Unit
Apr 18: Thermo 
Apr 25:  Thermo Unit Test early this week
May 2:  Small Business, Resume and AAM in Engineering Project Learning and Work
May 9:  Small Business, Resume and AAM in Engineering Project Learning and Work
May 16-19: Small Business and All About Me in Engineering Project Presentations
May 20, May 23-24: Final Exams

1. CAD this  for max of 100    this for max of 90.

2. Create and print an A size sheet with 3 orthographic projections and an isometric with dimensions and an appropriate label.
3. Create a .stl of your project for my flashdrive.
4.  Have a 2.75" circle marked on your box.
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