Welcome Back!
Here we go for yet another school year. Welcome to Round Rock High School and to the RRHS engineering program. Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) is the foundation course in this program and serves as a prerequisite to our other engineering classes: Principles of Engineering (PoE), Digital Electronics (DE), Civil Engineering & Architecture (CEA) and Aerospace Engineering (AE). This course will teach you the basics of engineering, teamwork, the design process, brainstorming, and allow you to explore many different fields of engineering. Check this blog page regularly as I will update it with class information as well as other items that will be of interest to students and parents alike.
Be sure that you take advantage of all of the resources available to you in order to keep up with all that is going on in our school, the engineering program, and this course. For starters, give me contact info about yourself and your parents (or your student) using this form. It allows me to collect and use this information much more efficiently than paper forms. The form is also linked in the Helpful Links section to the right of this post.
You will also want to keep an eye on the tabs at the top. Through these, I plan to keep you informed about college recruiter visits to RRHS as well as scholarship and internship opportunities to students interested in an engineering or technical field. You can even browse through the history that is posted there as many of these 'ships are repeated annually.
The calendar on the right is a direct link to the Google Calendar that I use to plan out our lessons. I have also placed a link to Canvas, the Learning Management System (LMS) that we will use this year. PLTW provides this LMS access to all students and provides the latest curriculum via that site.
Be sure to review the First Day Packet (Syllabus) and return the $35 lab fee and required signatures to me by the end of next week. If I can be of any help, please feel free to call or email me. I look forward to seeing all of our parents at the RRHS Open House September 8!
