What are we going to do, and what do we have to learn?

Use the library to get started: search and reading skills

Measure stuff: use instruments, usually through LabVIEW

Analyze data, which means some statistics

Figure out a good question (project, story)

ME 241 Spring 2012

Design experiments to answer the question: instrumentation?

Lab safety

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It is very important to interrupt me

if you lose the thread of the argument

Otherwisewe’re all wasting our time

STAFF

me, Hopeman 330, gans@me.rochester.edu

Scott Russell, Hopeman 120, rorusse@me.rochester.edu

TAs: Kohei Hamano, Jakob Maag-Tanchak

During the project phase Scott and I, especially Scott, are on the move.

See me for science

See Scott for equipment

Scott and I can both approve buying things

See Scott and Ruth for how to buy things

GRADING ALGORITHM(TAKEN FROM THE WEB SITE)

Where are the labs?

They are all in GavettScott will be conducting two tours of the lab space:

January 23 at 1700 (first half of the class)January 25 at 1430 (second half of the class)

Ruth

We plan to teach you what you need as we go along

The library will help with library skills

The Writing Center will help with writing skills

Scott and I will talk about instruments

I will have things to say about statistics

The project page on the web site has a lot of project information

Scott and I can give you more

There will be an hour on lab safety

You’ll need a lab notebook (one per group), which I’ll talk about today.

You’ll need to form groups of three — twos if necessary, no fours!I need this by January 25.

We are going to be using a lot of different rooms and a lot of different starting timesYou’ll need to pay attention to the on-line schedule

http://www.me.rochester.edu/courses/ME241/daily_schedule.htmlIt has a link to a calendar that I hope is accurate

We can breeze through the calendar pages now.

What we are going to do about writing(taken from the web site)