*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Monday: Introduce Rough Sketching and sketching techniques
Tuesday-Wednesday: Practice Sketching
Thursday-Friday: Introduce drawing tools

CADD 2
Monday-Friday: Begin new set of 3-4, three-view AutoCAD drawings using proper dimensioning, text, and layout.

Architectural Design

Monday-Friday: Work on and finish sustainable architecture research and lesson. Students must have presentation and handout finished and turned in by Friday at the end of class.



Engineering Design

Monday-Friday: Bridge research project, Each student will be assigned a bridge, they must complete the associated research and prepare a presentation and handout to present and teach the class about their chosen bridge.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Monday: Introduce rough sketching
Tuesday-Wednesday: Practice Sketching
Thursday-Friday: Introduce drawing tools

CADD 2
Monday-Wednesday: AutoCAD review drawings
Thursday-Friday: Introduce and practice using layers

Architectural Design

Monday-Tuesday: Introduce sustainable architecture and it's importance in today's society.
Wednesday-Friday: Begin sustainable architecture technique research.


Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Bridge introduction lessons
Thursday-Friday: Bridge research project.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Tuesday: View DVD and complete assignment.
Wednesday-Friday: Review syllabus and begin introduction to technical drawing.

CADD 2
Wednesday: Begin with course syllabus and class expectations.
Thursday-Friday: Review AutoCAD and it's basic level functions.

Architectural Design

Tuesday: View DVD and complete assignment.
Wednesday-Friday: Begin formulating plan for dream home.


Engineering Design

Tuesday: View DVD and complete assignment.

Wednesday-Friday: Groups will finish energy projects. They will then complete a report on what they did and how it works/ didn't work and their plans and material lists.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Monday: Students will review 3-view drawings, they will now be asked to transfer 3 dimensional objects/images into 3-view drawings using the skills they have learned using AutoCAD.
Tuesday-Friday: Students will begin working on the first 3-view drawing.

Architectural Design

Monday: In class we will go over and discuss the web-quests that were finished last week and how these things affect construction costs and procedures.
Tuesday-Friday: Begin exploring dream homes and begin to formulate a plan for their dream home design.


Engineering Design

Monday-Friday: Groups should be building their alternative energy sources. Students will have class time to complete this project as well as whatever resources are available here. Any other resources/materials will be supplied by the students. Students should have their projects built and began testing by Friday.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Tuesday-Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book. New set of drawings including 419-26, 594-7, 605-25, 413-14, and 412-12 will be due Friday.

Architectural Design

Tuesday-Friday: Students will complete web quests on various home construction systems including, electrical, plumbing, framing, and roofing. These webquests will be followed by discussion concerning these topics in residential home construction and their importance in drawing these homes and plans.


Engineering Design

Tuesday-Friday: Groups should be building their alternative energy sources. Students will have class time to complete this project as well as whatever resources are available here. Any other resources/materials will be supplied by the students. Students should have their projects built and began testing by Friday.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Monday-Thursday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book. New set of drawings including 419-26, 594-7, 605-25, 413-14, and 412-12 will be completed this week.

Architectural Design

Monday-Thursday: Students will complete web quests on various home construction systems including, electrical, plumbing, framing, and roofing. These webquests will be followed by discussion concerning these topics in residential home construction and their importance in drawing these homes and plans.


Engineering Design

Monday-Thursday: Groups should be building their alternative energy sources. Students will have class time to complete this project as well as whatever resources are available here. Any other resources/materials will be supplied by the students.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Monday-Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book. Current 3 drawing set will be due at the close of class Tuesday


Architectural Design

Monday-Friday: Students will complete web quests on various home construction systems including, electrical, plumbing, framing, and roofing.


Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Begin preliminary design work. Sketches, drawings, plans etc. in order to have a complete plan when building begins.

Thursday-Friday: Begin group building of different alternative energy experiments. Must have complete plan and drawings to reach this stage.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Monday-Tuesday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book. Current 3 drawing set will be due at the close of class Tuesday

Wednesday-Thursday: Students will review CAD functions thus far and be introduced to making new layers, this will include layers in which hidden, phantom, center etc lines will be located. We will also begin looking at 3D objects and how they can be portrayed to dimensionally

Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book.


Architectural Design

Tuesday-Friday: Students will continue research and analyze human needs and wants as it pertains to garages, and different scenarios in which different types of garages might be warranted. They will use Autodesk Revit Architecture to begin to layout their garage design. This is a relatively simple project that will allow the students to become familiar with the program. Students should be assigning materials and textures, and beginning to Render and save the rendered version of their drawing.


Engineering Design

Monday- Tuesday: Students will begin brainstorming needed materials and items that will be required to build the models that they came up with and voted on last week.

Wednesday-Friday: Begin preliminary design work. Sketches, drawings, plans etc. in order to have a complete plan when building begins.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1
Tuesday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book. Drawing #'s 261-4, 262-6, 260-1, and 263-7 will be due by the close of class on Tuesday.

Wednesday-Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book.


Architectural Design

Tuesday-Friday: Students will continue research and analyze human needs and wants as it pertains to garages, and different scenarios in which different types of garages might be warranted. They will use Autodesk Revit Architecture to begin to layout their garage design. This is a relatively simple project that will allow the students to become familiar with the program. Students should be assigning materials and textures, and beginning to Render and save the rendered version of their drawing.


Engineering Design
Tuesday-Wednesday: Students will brainstorm and research what types of energies they can build models/replicas of.

Thursday-Friday: Begin to formulate plan to build replica/model alternative energy.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1

Monday-Wednesday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book. Drawing #'s 261-4, 262-6, 260-1, and 263-7 will be due by the close of class on Wednesday.


Architectural Design

Monday-Friday: Students will continue research and analyze human needs and wants as it pertains to garages, and different scenarios in which different types of garages might be warranted. They will use Autodesk Revit Architecture to begin to layout their garage design. This is a relatively simple project that will allow the students to become familiar with the program.


Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Students will begin looking at alternative energy sources and formulate opinons based on information they find through research and exploration. Students will be expected to be able to describe, and possibly demonstrate the use of certain alternative energies. Students will view Documentary entitled " Who killed the electric car". This gives a sneak peak at what inventors and innovators are dealing with as far as resistance against new technologies.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1

Monday-Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer, tangent, and offset. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book.


Architectural Design

Monday-Friday: Students will continue research and analyze human needs and wants as it pertains to garages, and different scenarios in which different types of garages might be warranted. They will use Autodesk Revit Architecture to begin to layout their garage design. This is a relatively simple project that will allow the students to become familiar with the program.


Engineering Design

Monday-Friday: Students will begin looking at alternative energy sources and formulate opinons based on information they find through research and exploration. Students will be expected to be able to describe, and possibly demonstrate the use of certain alternative energies.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1

Monday: Review quiz and introduce new CAD commands, Fillet, copy and paste, chamfer.
Tuesday-Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print, as well as new functions, fillet, copy/paste, and chamfer. Continue working on and finish drawings in the Auto Cad book.


Architectural Design

Monday-Tuesday: Students will be introduced to the architecture program we are planning on using which is Auto-desk Revit. They will have time to explore the program and self discover different aspects in which they will use in future projects.

Wednesday-Friday: Begin garage design project. Students will research and analyze human needs and wants as it pertains to garages, and different scenarios in which different types of garages might be warranted.

Engineering Design

Monday-Friday: Students will continue to analyze their Rube Goldberg systems in order to produce a successful model. Students will be using scrap materials from home, school, etc to produce a working Rube Goldberg experiment.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1

Monday: Wednesday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print. Continue working on and finish drawings in the AutoCAD book. These are on page 112 and 113 #'s 8,9,10,11. These 4 drawings will be due at the close of class on Tuesday.

Thursday: Review for CAD functions QUIZ, including Line, mirror, object snaps, polar tracking, etc.

Friday: Quiz


Architectural Design

Monday-Wednesday: Identify foundation construction techniques and concepts. Identify and describe wall framing techniques and styles. As well as insulation and energy efficiency.

Thursday: Review foundation, wall, and roof construction and prepare for quiz.

Friday: Quiz

Engineering Design

Monday-Tuesday: Rube Goldberg brainstorming and material collection

Thursday-Friday: Begin Rube Goldberg contraption construction.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1

Monday-Friday: Continue CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print.


Architectural Design

Monday-Wednesday: Identify foundation construction techniques and concepts. Identify and describe wall framing techniques and styles. As well as insulation and energy efficiency.

Thursday-Friday: Explore exterior design, and wall coverings.

Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Rube Goldberg Research and discussion

Thursday-Friday: Begin Rube Goldberg contraption construction.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
site in time. I will do my best to post them promptly. Thank you.


CAD 1

Monday-Tuesday: AutoCAD introduction

Wednesday-Friday: Introduction CAD drawings in 2D, using basic commands such as line, and circle. Also, basic CAD functions, such as zoom, save and print.


Architectural Design

Monday-Friday: Explore design concepts both interior and exterior. Identify design features and reasons for creating layouts and floorplans in certain ways.

Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Materials Research Project

Thursday-Friday: Presentation of materials.

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Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
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CAD 1

Monday-Tuesday: Final Hand drawing practice completing orthographic projections.

Wednesday-Friday: AutoCAD introduction


Architectural Design

Monday-Friday: Explore design concepts both interior and exterior. Identify design features and reasons for creating layouts and floorplans in certain ways.

Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Explore Materials and their classes as well as uses in real world applications.

Thursday-Friday: Materials Research Project

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Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
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CAD 1

Monday-Tuesday: Orthographic Projection practice

Wednesday-Friday: Final Hand drawing practice


Architectural Design

Monday: Architectural Research Project, Construction planning and building process. Students will explore the process of choosing a piece of property, what they must do as far as utilities and permits to build and then the step by step process of building a home

Tuesday-Wednesday: Present Architectural Research projects

Thursday-Friday: Explore design concepts both interior and exterior.

Engineering Design

Monday-Wednesday: Present Cell phone design to class

Thursday-Friday: Explore materials and their uses.

*NOTE: Assignments, projects, quiz times and dates are subject to change.
Students will be notified but the changes may not show up on this
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CAD 1

Monday-Tuesday: Introduce Orthographic Projection and how to visualize objects.

Wednesday-Thursday: Orthographic Projection practice

Friday: Video assignment

Architectural Design

Monday-Thursday Architectural Research Project, Construction planning and building process. Students will explore the process of choosing a piece of property, what they must do as far as utilities and permits to build and then the step by step process of building a home

Friday: Video Assignment

Engineering Design

Monday-Tuesday: Cell Phone Design Project. Students will design a Cell phone with new/creative features

Wednesday-Thursday: Present Cell phone design to class

Friday: Video Assignment