Week of Feb 8

This week in IED
All Inventor work should be finished by now.   If you have not finished any of the parts from unit 5, please come in to tutorials this week to complete all of your work. Tuesday and Wednesday in class will include a test on part creation from Inventor before moving on to the Reverse Engineering unit, beginning with visual and then functional analysis.

Update your notebooks for a journal check this week.  You should have the portfolio instructions and the calculating properties of shapes.  Be sure to sign, date, and number all of your pages as well.

CTE has duty this week, so I will not be available for morning tutorials.  I will be here, however, every afternoon.  You can work on Inventor in Mrs. Saksena's room 603, if you need to work in the morning.

Agendas: 
Tuesday - Inventor Quiz + Visual Design Elements & Principles
Thursday - Visual Design Elements - Automoblox

You can download a copy of Inventor for academic use at the Autodesk web site.  The program is very graphic intensive, but many home computers are capable of running it.  Be aware that it takes several hours to download and install.

Edison Lecture
 On Feb 17, next Tuesday, engineering students can attend the Edison Lecture Series  at UT.  The buses will leave RRHS at 10:15 so that you will have time to visit UT engineering students and faculty showing off their current projects and activities.  Following that, we will attend the lecture on the topic of Big Data, which I can only guess has to do with the technology of storing data; how that has changed; and how it has enabled much of the technology we know today.  We should return to campus in time for C lunch (2:00).

If you are interested, be sure that you sign up on this form, so that I have the needed information.  You also need to complete the RRISD permission form, which requires signatures from your parents, teachers, and yourself.  You can print the linked copy or get one from me.

This week at RRHS
This is the final week of the 4th six weeks.  The year is really flying by quickly.  Be sure that you have all work caught up and turned in to me by Friday so that I have time to get it  graded before grades are due next Tuesday morning.

College Recruiting Visits
Tuesday - Oregon State
Wednesday - US Navy
See your counselor for specific information or to sign up.