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Enrichment Program

 

Robots to Play! Robots to Learn!

English and French Sessions

May 5-9, 2008

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Welcome to engineering! This is your golden gate to an exciting career! If you like to attend this course, you are most likely interested in engineering. Whatever your reason is, you are exploring a field full of discovery, creativity, and excitement. This course is aimed to provide you with an introduction to this exciting world using Lego Mindstorms as a platform. Our aim is to put the fun and excitement back into engineering. You will learn how to build sensors and other robotic accessories in the lab.

For further information contact: rhabash@site.uottawa.ca

 

The Well-Rounded Engineer! 2007

Faculty of Engineering
170: The Well-Rounded Engineer
Location: MacDonald Hall, Room 146, 150 Louis Pasteur

Welcome to engineering! This is your golden gate to an exciting career! If you like to attend this course, you are most likely interested in engineering. This is probably because of your strong skills in science and mathematics. May be you like to take things apart and see the way they work. Whatever your reason is, you are exploring a field full of discovery, creativity, and excitement.

This course is aimed to provide you with an introduction to this exciting world through the enormous accomplishments including electronics, the Internet, life-extending biomedical engineering, household appliances, transportation systems, and the so-called system-on-a-chip.

Tentative Curriculum (30 hours)

Day

Period      

Subject

Monday

9:00 - 12:00

What is Engineering?

10:30-12:00

Engineering Design

13:00-16:00

Math for Engineers

Tuesday

9:00 - 12:00

Mechanical Systems; Fluid Systems; Thermal Systems

13:00-16:00

Electrical Systems

Wednesday

9:00 - 12:00

RobotLab

13:00-16:00

RobotLab

Thursday

9:00 - 10:15

Simulation exercises in the lab using MULTISIM.

10:30-12:00

Simulation exercises in the lab using MULTISIM.

13:00-16:00

Mechanical Workshop

Friday

9:00 - 12:00

Introduction to building electronic circuits in the lab.

Read introduction to the lab    resistor codes    capacitor codes

13:00-16:00

Building electronic circuits in the lab.

The Little Engineers

Bond, Clinton Coax, Mitchell Gan, Lin Genest, Celine King, Dylan
Lau, Colin Lorius, Sophie Lowe, Jenna Mac Rae, Pier Dominic Macdonald, Peter Ian
Montroy, Joshua Prosper, Michael Reid, Blake Renaud, Alexander Riordan, Joel
Rosewarne, Alexander Sebastiao, Eric Smith, Tessa Tilson, Stuart Visser, Mathew
Watson, Hareesh Zhang, Nan