May 4-8, 2009

 

Robots to Play ... Robots to Learn!

 

Location 1: Room SITE G0103

Location 2: Lab CBY B02

School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa

800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

 

Saturday: meeting students and parents

 

Monday: in the classroom (English section)

 

SYLLABUS OF THE ENRICHMENT COURSE

Day

Morning

Afternoon

 

Saturday

 

Organizers: teachers and engineering students.

Meeting students and parents in the classroom and visiting the lab.

Theme: How parents can help children with career decision-making? Do you think this event will be important in later job decisions.

Monday

Instructor: Riadh Habash

Location: SITE G0103

Introduction to engineering, math as a tool in engineering.

 

 

Instructor: Dominique Tanguay

Location: SITE G0103

Basic physics principles: fun quiz with short experiments explaining physics.

Introduction to engineering design with short design contest. Teamwork activity.

Tuesday

Instructor: Riadh Habash

Location: SITE G0103

Engineering systems made simple with emphasis on science, math, and design components.

Biomedical Engineer (Antony 10:30-11:15)

Introduction to Lego Mindstorms NXT: sensors, motor block, software languages, connecting the NXT.

Instructor: engineering students.

Location: SITE G0103

Presentations:

Fun with Lego Mindstorms (Adam: 13:00-13:30)

Mechatronics System (Group: 13:30-14:00)

Antennas for Robots (Eqab: 14:00-14:45)

Wednesday

Organizers: engineering students.

Location: Electronics Lab CBY B03

Robotic contests organized and judged by engineering students: Teamwork activity.

Organizers: engineering students.

Location: Electronics Lab CBY B03

Robotic contests organized and judged by engineering students: Teamwork activity.

Thursday

Visit to Museum of Science and Technology.

Cryomagic Session at the University Center.

Friday

Organizers: teacher and engineering students.

Location: Electronics Lab CBY B03

Electronic activity: breadboard construction techniques, basic measurements.

Organizers: teacher and engineering students.

Location: Electronics Lab CBY B03

Electronic activity: Students learn how to build simple sensors and signal conditioning circuits (filters and amplifiers) for robots.

 

Monday: in the classroom (French section)

SYLLABUS DU COURS D’ENRICHISSEMENT

Jour

Matinée

Après-midi

 

Samedi

 

Organisateurs: auteurs et étudiants en ingénierie.

Rencontre avec les étudiants et leurs parents dans la salle de classe; visite des laboratoires et du campus.

Lundi

Instructeur: Dominique Tanguay

Introduction aux Lego “Mindstorms” NXT: senseurs, bloc moteurs, logiciel,  langage et connections.

Instructeur: Riadh Habash

Introduction aux pratiques de l’ingénieur, mathématiques comme outils de l’ingénieur. (Anglais seulement)

Tuesday

Organisateurs: ingénieurs étudiants.

Concours de construction de robots organisée et jugée par les étudiants ingénieurs. Activité de groupe.

Organisateurs: ingénieurs étudiants.

Concours de construction de robots organisée et jugée par les étudiants ingénieurs. Activité de groupe.

Mercredi

Instructeur: Dominique Tanguay

Principes physiques: quiz amusant et petites expériences expliquant la base de la physique.

Introduction au design pour ingénieurs avec compétition en équipe.

Spectacle: “Cryomagie”.

Jeudi

Visite au musée des Sciences et de la technologie.

Préparation au laboratoire d’électronique.

Vendredi

Laboratoire d’électronique: familiarisation avec les instruments de base et de mesure.

Laboratoire d’électronique: Les étudiants apprennent à construire des senseurs simples et autres composantes robotiques

 

Building robots

 

Building robots

 

Building robots

 

Thursday: in the Museum of Science and Technology

 

Thursday: in the Museum of Science and Technology

 

Friday: Building sensors

 

Friday: Building sensors

 

May 5-9, 2008

 

Robots to Play ... Robots to Learn!

 

Welcome to engineering! This is your golden gate to an exciting career! If you like to attend this course, you are most likely interested in engineering. Whatever your reason is, you are exploring a field full of discovery, creativity, and excitement. This course is aimed to provide you with an introduction to this exciting world using Lego Mindstorms as a platform. Our aim is to put the fun and excitement back into engineering. You will learn how to build sensors and other robotic accessories in the lab.

 

The Little Engineers!

 

Beauregard, Eric Belleau, Spencer Blaisdell, Rory Boudreau, Billy Cole, Reid Gareay, Patrick
Habash, Mara Hebert-Arsenault, Dawson Hodgins, Alexander Hubbard, Connor Irwin, Christine Jones, Hannah
Lauzon, Gabriel Lipohar, Jacob Murdoch, Daniel Richer, Michael Safieddine, Rayan Schoular, Jeremy
Simon, Mitchel Trolly, Stephen Vohra, Mohit Wagner, Curtis    

 

Ingénieurs en herbe!

 

Abrishami, Siamak Cheff, Patryk Cobbold, Émilie Corneau, Nicholas Denault, Léo El Hage, Alexandre
Evraire, Philippe Farren-Dai, Marco Fillion, Antoine Finlay, Adam Forget, Michael Labranche, Alexandre
Matta, Jason McKeown, Charles Molnar, Christine Pilon, Alexandre Renault, Didier Sabourin, Eloi
Séguin, Jacob Séguin, Pierre Succar, Stéphanie Suddaby, Paul    

 

 

Tentative Curriculum (30 hours)

 

Day

Period      

Subject

Monday

9:00 - 10:15

What is Engineering?

10:30-12:00

Math for Engineers; Engineering Design

13:00-15:00

Visits to Engineering Labs

Tuesday

9:00 - 12:00

Math for Engineers; Mechanical Systems; Fluid Systems; Thermal Systems; Electrical Systems

13:00-15:00

Lego Mindstorm

Wednesday

9:00 - 12:00

RobotLab

13:00-15:00

RobotLab

Thursday

9:00 - 10:15

RobotLab

10:30-12:00

RobotLab

13:00-15:00

Cryomagic Show

Friday

9:00 - 12:00

Introduction to building electronic circuits in the lab.

Read introduction to the lab    resistor codes    capacitor codes

13:00-15:00

Building Sensors for Robots

 

 

For further information contact: rhabash@site.uottawa.ca

 

Building Sensors

 

Proximity Sensor

 

Enrichment 2007

The Well-Rounded Engineer!