Engineering Class

At the start of this year, Engineering class has started! The engineering class has been spearheaded by Mr. Olsen this year, the Algebra II teacher, check out his website! This year I expect to learn how to draft drawings and better understand how an engineer may think and work. This class will greatly help me in my future because I hope to become an architect or an actual engineer so I am taking this class very seriously. The grading policy for this class is slightly different for this class and it is as follows:

• Homework/Do Nows: 10%
• Tests/Quizzes/Projects: 90%

There are many interesting aspects to our class. The fact that we design and build almost every week is pretty interesting. Recently, we have designed and built a phone case.

 It is rumored that later in the year we will be building a go kart. I do not think a class trip is planned for this class but maybe we will be surprised with one. This class works very directly with technology.    

Technology plays a huge role in an engineers life. In the architectural sense, the program CAD is used which is the computer based programs that helps draw up blueprints. A lesser version of this program would be Google Sketchup. Engineers also work closely with technology because they often improve upon those things and work on making them better. Such ways could be making something more efficient or designing something with a new material to make it cheaper.