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Welcome to 7th Grade Engineering and Design

Mr. Kienle’s Contact Information

  • 7th grade Life Science and Engineering Design Teacher
  • Phone: 503-366-7302
  • Email:

Mrs. Charbonneau’s Expectations

  1. Come to class with a good attitude
  2. Keep an appropriate noise level
  3. No horsing around even if it seems harmless
  4. Clean up your area before the bell rings
  5. Turn in your paperwork! No paperwork, no grade.

Grading Policy

Project packets/quizzes …………. 70%

Homework/class work ..………….…… 30%

Absent, Late or Incomplete Work

All work on the projects must be done during

class time.

If a student has been absent it is their job to find

out what they missed and to make it up.

Any student that wishes to finish a packet

or retake a testdue to a low grade is welcome

to do so.

Food and Drink

Food and drink are not allowed in the classroom or the engineering room.

7th Grade Engineering Design Scope and Sequence

  1. Introduction to Engineering
  1. Exploring Different Types of Engineering
  2. The Engineering Design Process and Challenges
  3. Engineering Drawing is Different from Sketching
  1. The Island
  1. The Requirements
  2. Map – Topo and Orthographic and Bird’s Eye
  1. Wind Power
  1. About Wind Power
  2. Build a Wind Powered Generator and Water Pump
  1. Clean Water
  1. About Water Filters and World Water Resources
  2. Build a Water Filter
  1. Greenhouse
  1. About Greenhouses and The Greenhouse Effect
  2. Build a Greenhouse
  1. Raft
  1. About Sails and Buoyancy
  2. Build a Raft
  1. Whirler
  1. Design and Compete in One Class Period

7th Engineering Design

“I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.” Bill Nye- Mechanical Engineer and Science Educator

Course Objectives:

This class is an introduction to engineering design and will emphasize:

  • Engineering vocabulary
  • Engineering careers.
  • Engineering design process
  • Environmental concerns that can be solved with engineering design
  • Group problem-solving

Through a series of increasingly complicated projects students will practice the engineering design process as they find the best solution to a given problem.

Essential Questions

What is the engineering design process and how is it used?

Why is brainstorming important when modifying or improving a product?

What is meant by constraints and criteria?

What are common constraints put on a product?

Why do engineers use drawings to record and communicate and information?

What is the difference between sketching and drawing?

The engineering design process is a series of steps that teams of engineers use to solve problems.

vocabulary / notes

What Do Engineers Do All Day?

Type of Engineering ______

About - Give a summary of what a ______engineer does:

Projects - List 4 projects that a ______might work on.

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Salary - Beginning with a Bachelor of Science ______

Links - Name of link you tried ______

Rating of link

Easy to understand

Easy to navigate

Worthwhile content

People - Name of engineer ______

Give a summary of what the engineer does and what he/she likes best about their job:

Engineers at Work in the Real World

Read the following paragraph, and then answer the questions

Because of the increasing cost of fuel, internet giant Google teamed up with NASA to sponsor theGreen Flight Challenge. Aircraft must fly 200 miles in less than two hours using less than 1 gallon of gasoline per occupant. Aircraft noise must be less than 78 decibels at 250 feet. Aircraft must have upright seats with adequate volume for at least two 6-foot tall, 200 lb people. The plane’s wings must fit inside 44-foot wide hangar, and planes cannot be over 13 feet tall. The planes must be ready to fly by September 25. The first place team will take home a whopping $1.3 million. Thirteen teamsentered unique ideas that might work; most teams were from colleges and universities. The Green Flight Challenge will be held on between September 25 and October 2 at Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport. After 3 days of testing to make sure the planes are safe to fly, the planes that pass will fly 200 miles. They will leave the same airport by 10 am and have until dark to land. The course will fly over unpopulated areas of California and aircraft are required to fly at or below 4000 feet. A team from Google will study the data and use it to decide the winner of $1.3 million dollars. (The prize was won by Pipistrel USA)

Match the phrase from with the step of the engineering process. Answer may be used more than once.

____1. Three days of testing to make sure the planes are safe to fly

____2. Because of the increasing cost of fuel, internet giantGoogle teamed up with NASA to sponsor theGreen Flight Challenge.

____3. Planes cannot be over 13 feet tall

____4. A team from Google will study the data and use it todecide the winner of $1.3 dollars.

____5. Green Flight Challenge videos are posted on You tube

____6. The plane’s wings must fit inside 44-foot wide hangar

____7. All planes must be at the airport, ready to be tested by 8am Sept. 25

____8. Thirteen teamsentered unique ideas that might work

____9. Press conferences are held to announce the challenge and to announce the winner.

Read the following paragraph, and then answer the questions

The Ansari X PRIZE was modeled after the Orteig Prize, won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 for being the first to fly non-stop from New York to Paris and helped create today's $300 billion commercial aviation industry. Dr. Peter Diamandis designed the prize after readingThe Spirit of St. Louisabout the winning of the Orteig Prize. In 1996, he announced the prize in St. Louis, and the race was on. On October 4, 2004, the X PRIZE Foundation captured the world's attention when we awarded the largest prize in history, the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE, toScaled Compositesfor their craft Spaceship One. To win the prize, famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen led the first private team to build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometers above the earth's surface, twice within two weeks.

Match the phrase from with the step of the engineering process. Answer may be used more than once.

____10. Dr. Peter Diamandis came up with the idea when he realized there was no private space industry in the United States.

____11. Tier One Project funded by Paul Allen makes its first test flight on September 29, 2004

____12. After seeing the data that proved both test flights worked Peter Diamandis announced that Tier-On Project had won the $10 million on Nov 6, 2004

____13. 27 teams came up with ideas that might work

____14. The spacecraft had to carry at least 3 people

____15. Tier One Project makes its second test flight October 4, 2004

____16. Press announcements and You tube videos are used to make the public aware.

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Charbonneau 2014