Principles of Engineering (POE)
Mr. Cahoon 2012-2013: [email protected]
Mr. Bernstein 2013: [email protected]
Through problems that engage and challenge, students explore a broad range of engineering topics, including mechanisms, the strength of structures and materials, and automation. Students develop skills in problem solving, research, and design while learning strategies for design process documentation, collaboration, and presentation.
Mr. Cahoon 2012-2013: [email protected]
Mr. Bernstein 2013: [email protected]
Through problems that engage and challenge, students explore a broad range of engineering topics, including mechanisms, the strength of structures and materials, and automation. Students develop skills in problem solving, research, and design while learning strategies for design process documentation, collaboration, and presentation.
- The objective of the Marble Sorter project was to make a sorting system made out of Fischer-Technik parts to sort about 20 -25 marbles of various colors: clear, blue, and black. Also, we are supposed to create a program using the software “RoboPro” for the sorting system.
- The purpose of the project was to have the sorter be based off of a real-life sorting system, used to sort recyclables. We are to base our sorting system off of that.
- We went through a variety of activities in order to learn and get an idea of how to construct the sorter and make a program.
Projectile Motion: Ballistics DeviceMy group's device had a mouse trap that was connected to the base plate by a door hinge. We also had two side boards with a hole drilled into both of them for each angle (10, 20, 30 etc) and
dowel rod would be put in the two holes depending on the desired angle and the mousetrap would be lifted above the rod while still connected to the board by the hinge. Attached to the mouse trap was an object that was spoon-like, with a copper “handle” and a metal mesh “basket”. |
- The point of this project was to create a device that could fire a Ping-Pong ball into a box that was placed anywhere from five to fifteen feet away.
- There were not many restraints for the project. One of the few restraints was that the base of the device had to be 1x1 foot or less. It could be any height and had to be able to fire on many degrees.
- This project taught us how to make our own design from scratch with almost no restrictions.