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Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook
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Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook
Performance Objective: Given a VEX Robotics Challenge, maintain a team engineering notebook that contains all material outlined in the lesson.
Enabling Objectives: explain the purpose of an engineering design notebook list the items that should be in an engineering design notebook explain when entries should be made in an engineering design
notebook explain when an engineering notebook should be finished
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Engineering Design Notebook
The purpose of an engineering design notebook is to provide documentation for the teams: Thought process Activities Ideas Sketches and other graphic representations
of the design process
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Engineering Design Notebook
An engineering design notebook is also used to provide a chronological record of: Notes Research Sketches Journal Entries Forms and extraneous information
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Guidelines for an Engineering Design Notebook
An engineering design notebook should be started when a project is started
The notebook should not be finished until the project is over
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Guidelines for an Engineering Design Notebook
On the front of the notebook enter the project title, your name and other information needed to return the notebook to you in case it is lost
Keep a table of contents at the front of the notebook
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Guidelines for an Engineering Design Notebook
Design notebooks do not have to be neat but they must be legible Do not be overly concerned with neatness at the
expense of recording everything as it happens Do not crowd the materials on the pages
Make your entries at the time you do the work Include all results and learned information whether
favorable or unfavorable. Include all information even if you do not fully
understand it at the time of entry
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Guidelines for an Engineering Design Notebook
If you make errors, just cross them out with an X or a single line Do not mark through anything so that it can not be
read Do not erase anything Never tear a page out of the notebook
All data must be in their original form (calculations, charts, pictures, sketches on scrap paper, etc.)
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Guidelines for an Engineering Design Notebook
Rough drawings should be done directly in the notebook
More careful drawings such as computer-generated plots should be made and entered in the book
Information on loose sheets of paper should be entered into the notebook by: Taping the loose paper to the next available blank page in the
notebook Taping each corner of the loose paper
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Guidelines for an Engineering Design Notebook
Information that can be retrieved easily (such as information from VEX) should not be entered into the notebook
Enter only the needed information and the location and the location of the information in case you must retrieve it again.
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Resources
This presentation was put together using the following resource: http://www.coe.uga.edu/engineer/materials/engr_notebook.pdf
