What You'll Learn
What You'll Learn
It's always useful to have some sense of
WHY we're asking you to do things. Below are a list of the things that we hope you'll take away from your experience in these Bridge Design sections of ENGR-103.
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Teamwork
- We'll be quite explicit about some of the skills necessary for teamwork
- Planning
- You'll need to plan fairly carefully to design and build your bridges
- Documenting
- Any project needs to be recorded: before, during and after
- Design Process
- Design is very different from solving a math problem. There are almost always many ways to solve a problem. As with the robot competition in ENGR-102 you'll want to explore as many alternatives as possible.
- You'll find that there are many criteria important in a design process. We're emphasizing only one of them, but you'll see that many others could be important (e.g does the bridge bend a great deal even if it's "safe").
- Cost will be included in this process
- Computer Modeling
- You'll design and then test your ideas
- Physical Modeling
- You'll build what you design and then test
- Forensic Analysis
- Figuring out what went wrong when something does not perform as expected
- Static Analysis
- You'll learn basic static (meaning: it doesn't move so F=Ma becomes F=0) analysis
- Computer Software
- As will be the case throughout your career you'll learn to use several new software tools
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