Week of Feb 16

This Week in IED
If you are attending the Edison Lecture, be sure to be at the 700 bus loop by 10:15 Tuesday morning.  We will return by 2:00, so you will be back for C lunch on campus.

IED classes will update their portfolios with the recent Inventor designs as well as correct the formatting.  Remember that the structure should be:

• Main page (About You)
• IED
      Engineering Field Presentation
      Product Innovation Presentation
      Sketches
      Puzzle Cube
      CAD Modelling (add this one this week)
• Other Engineering Classes

Be sure that you  have detailed descriptions of these assignments for what you were supposed to do and what you learned to do as a result.  Remember that the audience is not me but a future recruiter who wants to know about your abilities.  They will likely not be familiar with our class and need to know what the assignment was about and how you improved your skills as a result. 

Thursday and Friday, we will conduct some experiments to calculate density of some irregular shapes.

Reverse Engineering
Following that, we will continue working on the Reverse Engineering project by doing a structural analysis (how it is built) and functional analysis (how it works), which will occur next week. 

I did not complete the journal check this weekend but will do so this week.  Be sure that you have things up to date and add the visual analysis charts from last week (and this week) to your journal.  Remember that a journal should be a daily digest of your work and not just notes that you take for class. 

Semi High Tech U

Semi High Tech U is an excellent opportunity for a few fortunate students to interact with high-tech industry engineers and see how what they are doing at school relates to highly demanding and rewarding jobs in the semiconductor industry.  It is 3 fun-filled and intense days of activity, tours, interactions with engineers and more that help to reinforce your understanding of the basic STEM concepts.  It would require you attending all 3 days (away from school), so you would have to make up the work that you will miss.  However, it is counted as a school-related activity, so it won't affect your exemption eligibility.  If you are interested, you need to apply at the Semi web site as soon as possible.  The application and selection 

This week at RRHS

It is hard to believe that this is the start of the FIFTH six weeks.  It always seems fast, but this year seems to have flown by even faster than most.  (Of course, it is a little deceiving since these grading periods are a little more than six weeks long.)  Look for report cards to come home this week.

Normal schedule this week at RRHS - no late starts or pep rally schedules.  I should be available for tutorials in my room each afternoon and each morning except for Thursday, when we have a faculty meeting scheduled.

College Visits This Week
Thursday - The University of Texas at Dallas
Friday - The University of Texas at Arlington (good engineering school)