Assignments Overview

Assignments Overview

There will be four assignments and two competitions throughout the term. They will replace the project requirements for ENGR-103 as a whole. Each of them is defined below, and will be developed further during the term. Announcements about further developments and details will be made as posts on this blog.

ID	Topic	Due	Indiv/Team	Points	Overview
A1	WPBD	Wk-3 4/18	Individual	15	Each individual on a team will develop a different bridge design in WPBD within the overall constraints. Each will create a blog post about their design.
Comp1	WPBD	Wk-3 4/18	Individual	5	Each individual will submit the results of their design to an online spreadsheet (link will be here). Those with the lowest cost will get extra credit points
A2	Knex Design	Wk-5 5/2	Individual	15	Each individual will develop a Knex design and document it, with a prediction of how much weight it will hold. The documentation will be a post about their design.
A3	Truss Analysis	Wk-8 5/23	Individual	15	Each individual will analyze a simple truss using the "Method of Joints". They will also perform an approximate analysis of their first Knex truss using the Bridge Designer software. They will comment on whether the analysis provides understanding of the failure mode of their first truss design.
Comp2	Knex Design	Wk-9 5/30	Team	10	Each team will submit the characteristics of their competition bridge to an online spreadsheet (link will be here). The instructors will later insert the results of the bridge testing. The low teams will get extra credit points.
A4	Knex Report	Wk-10 6/6	Team	40	Each team will submit a report on the design, testing and results of their Knex bridges, defining their characteristics at each stage and the improvements from one stage to the next.

 

Here's a listing of what's due each week for the entire term.

 

Here's the Entire Schedule for the term - Note that it may be updated without changing this image