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Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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.)

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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

Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook 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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Available at: – Maintain a Team Engineering Design Notebook Resources  This presentation was put together using the following resource: rials/engr_notebook.pdf rials/engr_notebook.pdf