Gateway To Technology (GTT) Detailed Outline
This outline is a living document and will be adjusted at needed for success in the class.
Unit 2: Automation and Robotics
Lesson 1.1 What is Engineering?
Understandings
It is expected that students will:
Understandings
It is expected that students will:
Understandings
It is expected that students will:
Understandings
It is expected that students will:
This outline is a living document and will be adjusted at needed for success in the class.
Unit 2: Automation and Robotics
Lesson 1.1 What is Engineering?
Understandings
- 1. An engineering notebook is used to record original ideas or designs and to document the design process related to an invention or innovation.
- 2. A portfolio is an organized collection of best works.
- 3. Science is the study of the natural world, while technology is the study of how humans develop new products to meet needs and wants.
- 4. Teams of people can accomplish more than one individual working alone.
- 5. Technological change is seen through inventions, innovations, and the evolution of technological artifacts, processes, and systems.
- 6. Technology can have positive and negative social, cultural, economical, political, and environmental consequences.
- 7. Engineers, designers, and engineering technologists are needed in high demand for the development of future technology to meet societal needs and wants.
It is expected that students will:
- Utilize standard procedures to use and maintain an engineering notebook.
- Use guidelines for developing and maintaining an engineering notebook to evaluate and select pieces of one’s own work for inclusion in a portfolio.
- Describe the relationship between science, technology, engineering, and math.
- Identify the differences between invention and innovation.
- Operate as an effective member of a team to complete an investigation.
- Describe engineering and explain how engineers participate in or contribute to the invention and innovation of products.
- Describe impacts that technology has had on society.
Understandings
- 1. Automation is the use of technology to ease human labor or to extend the mental or physical capabilities of humans.
- 2. Robotics is the specialized field of engineering and computer science that deals with the design, construction, and application of robots.
- 3. The use of automation and robotics affects humans in various ways, both positively and negatively, including their safety, comfort, choices, and attitudes about a technology’s development and use.
- 4. Automation and robotics have had an influence on society in the past and present and will influence society in the future.
- 5. Engineers, designers, and engineering technologists are in high demand for the development of future technology to meet societal needs and wants.
It is expected that students will:
- Describe the purpose of automation and robotics and its effect on society.
- Summarize ways that robots are used in today’s world and the impact of their use on society.
- Describe positive and negative effects of automation and robotics on humans in terms of safety and economics.
- Provide examples of STEM careers and the need for these professionals in our society.
Understandings
- 1. Energy is the capacity to do work; the use of mechanisms is necessary to transfer energy.
- 2. Engineers and technologists design mechanisms to change energy by transferring direction, speed, type of movement, and force or torque.
- 3. Mechanisms can be used individually, in pairs, or in systems.
It is expected that students will:
- Use ratios to solve mechanical advantage problems.
- Use numerical and algebraic expressions and equations to solve real-life problems, such as gear ratios.
- Use the characteristics of a specific mechanism to evaluate its purpose and applications.
- Apply knowledge of mechanisms to solve a unique problem for speed, torque, force, or type of motion.
Understandings
- 1. Automated systems require minimal human intervention.
- 2. An open-loop system has no feedback path and requires human intervention, while a closed-loop system uses feedback.
- 3. Troubleshooting is a problem-solving method used to identify the cause of a malfunction in a technological system.
- 4. Comments do not change the way a robot behaves, but they do allow the programmer to remember the function that the code performs.
- 5. Invention is a process of turning ideas and imagination into devices and systems.
- 6. Some technological problems are best solved through experimentation.
- 7. Fluid power systems are categorized as either pneumatic, which uses gas, or hydraulic, which uses liquids. (FT Version)
- 8. Automated systems can be powered by alternative energy sources like solar and fuel cells. (FT Version)
It is expected that students will:
- Know the seven technological resources and how they are integrated into an open and closed loop system.
- Describe the purpose of pseudocode and comments within a computer program.
- Know how to use ratio reasoning to solve mechanical advantage problems.
- Design, build, wire, and program both open and closed loop systems.
- Use motors and sensors appropriately to solve robotic problems.
- Troubleshoot a malfunctioning system using a methodical approach.
- Experience fluid power by creating and troubleshooting a pneumatic device. (FT Version)
- Design, build, wire and program a system operated by alternative energy. (FT Version)
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of mechanical, electrical, and computer engineers who solve robotic problems.