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=Overview=
This page contains worksheets related to various topics.
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==Notes==
==Notes==


Each of these worksheets could be tailored to a particular class.
Each of these worksheets, and each particular topic, can fairly easily be tailored to the content of a particular class. (Consists of finding an aspect of the problem and boiling it down.)


Teaching them the pattern - you learn an abstract concept, you're confronted with a problem, you apply your new concept (together with everything you know up to this point)
Teaching them the pattern - you learn an abstract concept, you're confronted with a problem, you apply your new concept (together with everything you know up to this point)


Teach them the name of the game in engineering - it's not how closely you follow the rules, it's the creativity and and outside-the-box thinking you bring to the problem
Teach them the name of the game in engineering - be ready to use everything you know for creative, outside-the-box problem-solving


The greater your diversity of tools, the more prepared you are to come up with ideas (increase raw material)
The greater your diversity of tools, the more prepared you are to come up with ideas (increase raw material)
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Engineering design process and engineering design thinking should be weaved into each worksheet.
Engineering design process and engineering design thinking should be weaved into each worksheet.


 
==Calculus II==
==Calculus Topics==


[[Worksheets/Archimdes Dont Disturb My Circles]]
[[Worksheets/Archimdes Dont Disturb My Circles]]
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[[Worksheets/Civil Engineering Road Planning]]
[[Worksheets/Civil Engineering Road Planning]]
* Civil engineering application of Simpson's Rule to centroids
* Civil engineering application of Simpson's Rule
* Building a highway going through a town
* Building a highway going through a town
* Cross-sectional design of highway - arc length, volume, centroids
* Cross-sectional design of highway - arc length, volume, centroids
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* Solving a differential equation  
* Solving a differential equation  
* Different right-hand sides, different time steps
* Different right-hand sides, different time steps
==Calc III==
[[Worksheet/Infinite Series Convergence]]
* convergence of an infinite series
* implementation of calculations of a series in a for loop
* introductory programming topic: for loops


==Topics==
==Topics==


Ideas for topics for worksheets:
Ideas for topics for worksheets:
[[Worksheet/Hanford B Reactor]]
[[Worksheets/Poynting Vector and Electromagnetics]]


Rockets
Rockets
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Apple power supply teardowns, plus high voltage, power transmission, etc.
Apple power supply teardowns, plus high voltage, power transmission, etc.


[[Worksheets/Hidden Complexities of Power]]
Power/electricity


[[Category:Engineering]]
[[Category:Engineering]]

Latest revision as of 21:59, 19 February 2017

Overview

This page contains worksheets related to various topics.

Template:WorksheetFlag

Notes

Each of these worksheets, and each particular topic, can fairly easily be tailored to the content of a particular class. (Consists of finding an aspect of the problem and boiling it down.)

Teaching them the pattern - you learn an abstract concept, you're confronted with a problem, you apply your new concept (together with everything you know up to this point)

Teach them the name of the game in engineering - be ready to use everything you know for creative, outside-the-box problem-solving

The greater your diversity of tools, the more prepared you are to come up with ideas (increase raw material)

Engineering design process and engineering design thinking should be weaved into each worksheet.

Calculus II

Worksheets/Archimdes Dont Disturb My Circles

  • area, volume, surface area
  • sphere and cylinder shapes
  • geometric thinking

Worksheets/Simpsons Rule

  • numerical integration
  • approximating the area under a curve
  • spreadsheet formulas

Worksheets/Civil Engineering Road Planning

  • Civil engineering application of Simpson's Rule
  • Building a highway going through a town
  • Cross-sectional design of highway - arc length, volume, centroids

Worksheets/Eulers Method Circuits

  • electrical circuit
  • Solving a differential equation
  • Different right-hand sides, different time steps

Calc III

Worksheet/Infinite Series Convergence

  • convergence of an infinite series
  • implementation of calculations of a series in a for loop
  • introductory programming topic: for loops

Topics

Ideas for topics for worksheets:

Worksheet/Hanford B Reactor

Worksheets/Poynting Vector and Electromagnetics

Rockets

Motors, motor currents, motor control

insect populations - logistic equation, chemical treatment, population dynamics equations

insect motion and dynamics, work, force, energy - insect drones, batteries

droplets, slow motion, aerosols, force balances

piston cylinder systems, integrating ideal gas law

solid mechanics, rotational forces, warped CD drive, slow motion

arc length calculation

root-finding using midpoint method

studying convergence of series sum_{1}^{infty} 1/n^2 = pi^2/6

Insect drones: mass, power, force, work, distance, batteries

Feedback and control systems (1D control problems?)

Rocket propellant, P dV, casing and curing and consistency and chemistry

Apple power supply teardowns, plus high voltage, power transmission, etc.

Power/electricity