E5 Schedule

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

1
8/30-9/5

Intro to Engineering / Artifacts / resumes
Brainstorming

lecture 1 slides

"Intro to PC" Lab /
Begin Your Web Page

Resume is due

list of student helpers

2
9/6-9/12

Intro to the Galumphing Robot Project

ASCE, ASME, IEEE, SWE, NSBE, SSE

lecture 2 slides

Machine Shop 1 (and servo controller)
Assignment 1 (Initial web Page) is due
Tennis Ball Drop on Friday

3
9/13-9/19

Digital Representation of Data: lecture 3 slides

Intro to Matlab: Matlab Reference Summary (.doc file)

Arrays / Matlab Ref 1/ Matlab Examples

Andy Bastian, 3D Printing

Machine Shop 2 and Robot Assembly

Matlab 1

Reading responses and tennis ball summary on website due

4
9/20-9/26

More on Matlab: transformations, functions, and serial communication: lecture 4 slides

Matlab examples

data acquisition in Matlab

Machine Shop 2 and Robot Assembly

Matlab 2
Matlab 1 is due

5
9/27-10/3

Nancy Burkett, Director of Career Services

Learning Styles and Engineering courses

lecture 5 slides

please take the survey and save your results

Machine Shop 2 and Robot Assembly

Matlab 3

Matlab 2 is due

5
10/4-10/7

lecture 6 slides

Prof. Tali Moreshet - Computer Engineering and computer architecture

Examples of string manipulation in Matlab

assemble robot arm

10/7-10/17

Fall Break...
Relax!

6
10/18-10/24

Trigonometry of robotic arms: forward and inverse problem

lecture 7 slides

Matlab 4 and getting robot to galumph properly

Matlab 3 is due (finally!)

10/25-10/31

lecture 8 slides

Aritificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms

ethics examples

Matlab 5

Work on Robot

Matlab 4 is due

8
11/1-11/7

Prof. Lynne Molter - Electrical Engineering/Optics

Prof. Erik Cheever - Bio and Electrical Engineering

Work on Robot

9
11/8-11/14

Youngmoo Kim '93 - Music Information Processing