Course title

Engineering Science

Pre-requisite

Geometry or Algebra 1 Honors W/Teacher recommendation

Course description

Engineering Science Syllabus and Standards

The course is defined under the AZ State Course Catalog as Integrated Science; code: AZ03-201.

PHS has a set of Integrated Science courses that are remedial in nature and which do not/are not intended to qualify as “lab sciences;” while other schools in Arizona have Integrated Science as their capstone science course.  This course (Engineering Science) is interdisciplinary (hence the Integrated Science classification) and is intended to qualify as a “lab science.”

I’ve listed the units with examples of the concepts within each unit.  The course uses a combination of the JTED engineering standards and the AZ science standards.

 

Material Properties (modulus of elasticity; yield stress; stress/strain curves; thermal and chemical properties)

Design Process

Intellectual Property (Patents vs trademarks vs copyright)

Ethics in Engineering and Science

1-Day Building Challenges (build a structure out of spaghetti; newspaper; etc. that meets the given criteria) ~6 throughout the year.

CAD (OnShape) – Ongoing throughout the year.  2 or 3 days per month.

Inorganic Chemistry (Acid/Base reactions; covalent/ionic/metallic bonds; electronegativity; logarithmic scales)

Organic Chemistry (Combustion; natural and synthetic polymers; hydrocarbons/proteins/lipids)

Oil (drilling; refining; distillation; fracking; Deep Water Horizon)

Biodiesel (Chemical reaction to convert vegetable oil into biodiesel; pros/cons; logistics of small batch processing)

Economics (Supply and demand equilibrium; elasticity; monopoly; economies of scale; tragedy of the commons; negative externalities)

Manufacturing Processes (Casting; forging; injection molding; lost mold processes; welding; extruding)

3D Printing Technology (Thermodynamics; glass transition vs phase change)

Analog Circuits (parallel/series resistors; capacitors as energy storage and as frequency dependent resistors; how to use a multi-meter)

Digital Circuits (How a transistor and diode work; logic gates and half-adders made of both switches and transistors; AC/DC converter).

Coding (pseudocode; lego mindstorm; if/then; while loops; positive and negative feedback loops; proportional control systems)

Artificial Intelligence (Search Trees and heuristics; neural nets; backpropogating error; genetic algorithms)

Genetics (connections to AI genetic algorithms; mitosis/meiosis; mutation types; natural selection; barriers to gene flow and speciation; Hardy-Weinberg law of allele frequencies)

Catapult unit (force; torque; conservation of energy; conservation of angular momentum; efficiency; accuracy vs precision)

Ancient Engineering Unit (Work Energy Theorem; levers/pulleys/simple machines; unit conversions; measurement skills; how to document a plan - engineering notebook/lab notebook/Concept of Operations; oral presentation skills) 

 

 

School Country

United States

School state

Arizona

School city

Prescott

School Address

1050 N. Ruth Street

School zip code

86301

Requested competency code

Lab Science

Date submitted

04/4/2019

Approved

Yes

Approved competency code

• LINT
• Integrated science

Approved date

04/10/2019

Online / Virtual

No