Virtual labs can be found at our Virtual Laboratory.

1. Overview: What is Engineering?
   
• lecture - ethics, economics, art, politics, responsibility, teamwork
2. Computer tools: Word and Excel
   
• computer lab - interpretation of temperature and humidity data
• computer lab - reanalysis and presentation of college rankings
3. Statistics, sampling, and estimation
   
• lecture
  
• virtual lab - estimation of how many trees there are in a given area
  
• virtual lab - determination of the topology of a hidden surface
4. Spaghetti/aluminum construction project
   
• lecture - properties of materials
  
• lab - determination of tensile, buckling, and bending strength of spaghetti or aluminum
  
• lecture - principles of statics, forces in equilibrium
  
• lab - design and construction of spaghetti/aluminum trusses to meet load criteria
  
• virtual lab - design of a spaghetti/aluminum truss bridge to hold maximum load
  
• project - construction of a spaghetti or aluminum bridge or dome (multi-day project)
  
• bridge or dome load competition (TBA)
5. Chemical processes, density instabilities
   
• lecture - separations, unit operations
• lecture - principles of diffusion and instability
  
• virtual lab - diffusion processes
  
• lab - paper chromatography, salt fingering, distillation
6. Written communication: A Better Mousetrap?
   
• lab - design a cardboard mousetrap, create construction plans for building it
  
• lab - build a cardboard mousetrap based on construction plans
7. Modeling and scaling
   
• lecture - principles of scaling and dimensional analysis
8. Robotics
   
• lecture - introduction to robotics
  
• virtual lab - control of a two segment robotic arm
9. Logic and circuits
   
• lecture - introduction to boolean logic
  
• virtual lab - creation of complex circuits from primitive logic elements
  
• lecture - introduction to circuits using TTL chips
  
• lab - construction of a TTL circuit to guide a robot
10. Remote measurement and error analysis
    
• lecture - calculus of errors and the total differential
  
• lab - estimation of the distance between two unreachable points

Michael Karweit
mjk@jhu.edu
Dept. Chemical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Last modified by mjk@jhu.edu, 8/31/01