• Design and Drawing for Production (DDP) Pre-Requisite to EA program

Design and Drawing for Production Course Information

Credit: 1 unit can be used to satisfy the Art/Music requirement Length : 40 weeks

DDP provides you with the opportunities to be creative and to apply your decision-making and problem-solving skills to design and solve problems. You'll use powerful computer hardware and software to develop 3-D models or solid renderings of objects. Using a Computer Aided Design System, you will learn the product design process through creating, analyzing, rendering and producing a model. This course is an introduction to the universal language of technical drawing. Through the mastering of this language, utilizing the computer, students will be able to express technical ideas with speed, clarity, and exactness. Designing and Drawing for Productions is a vehicle for world-wide industrial communications and an integral step in the process for designing and producing goods. Students will develop spatial visualization by solving practical design problems. The ideas become working drawings and from the drawings students are encouraged to make scale models of their solution. Thereby, the process of sketching ideas, drawing details of all parts, and the actual production completes the design cycle.

• Digital Electronics (DE)

Digital Electronics Course Information

Credit: 1 unit **** Length: 40 weeks Prerequisite: DDP

Digital Electronics is a course in applied logic. You’ll be introduced to the digital circuits found in video games, watches, calculators, digital cameras, and thousands of other devices. You will study the application of digital logic and how digital devices are used to control automated equipment. You will use the industry standard, electronic design software to build circuits and export designs to a printed circuit auto - routing program that generates printed circuit boards, using chips and other components.

• Civil Engineering/Architecture and Engineering Robotics (prerequisite is Geometry and co-require A2T)
• Principals of Engineering (POE)

Civil Engineering/Architecture and Engineering Robotics Course Information

Credit: 1 Unit Length: 40 weeks Prerequisite: DDP, DE

This course provides an overview of the fields of Civil Engineering and Architecture, while emphasizing the interrelationship and dependence of both fields on each other. Students use state of the art software to solve real world problems and communicate solutions to hands-on projects and activities. This course covers topics such as:

• The Roles of Civil Engineers and Architects
• Project Planning
• Site Planning
• Building Design
• Project Documentation and Presentation

Principals of Engineering Course Information

Credit: 1 unit **** Length: 40 weeks Prerequisite: DDP, DE

 Goals:

1. To survey and simulate interest in engineering and engineering technology careers.
2. To explore the relationship between math, science, technology, and engineering.

Principles of Engineering is a hands-on, laboratory-based experience which will convey concepts and principles, skills, techniques and attitudes of engineering. The course will provide access to tools, machines and materials for individual and small group projects. The course is organized around a set of major concepts, skills and attitudes that are common and necessary to all engineering problems. These concepts, skills and attitudes will be addressed using real world applications as students build projects of their own design.

• Engineering Design and Development EDD (Academy seniors only, prerequisite DDP and Engineering Robotics)

Engineering Design and Development Course Information

Credit: 1 unit Length: 40 weeks Prerequisite:DDP,DE,POE,CEA

In this course, you’ll work on a team with one to three others to design and construct the solution to an engineering problem. The problems will involve a wide range of engineering applications. (e.g., school robo-mascot, automated solar water heater, remote control hover craft, to name a few ides). You will apply the principles you developed in the previous courses. A journal will become part of your portfolio. Each team will be responsible for delivering progress reports and making final presentations to an outside review panel. The completed portfolio will be invaluable when you begin applying to colleges.

Students who score an 85 or above in the course and a 70 or above on the college exam are eligible for 4 college credit hours from RIT.