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A rough outline of the lectures.  This will change depending on school holidays.  The last 2-3 lectures typically vary each semester as well

Week 1: Introduction
Week 1: CAD

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Week 2: Hand Sketching and Engineering Drawings

Week 3: The Design Process


Week 4: Sustainable Design: Lightweighting

Week 5: Sustainable Design: Lifecycle Design
Week 5: Document Structure and Formatting

Week 6: Prose

Week 6/7: Trebuchet Design, Equations of Motion, Triggers

Week 8: Actuators

Week 9: The Bio-Inspired Design Process

Week 10/11: Gait Analysis, Body Structure, and Torque Requirements

Week 11/12: Linkages, Motion Simulation in Inventor

​Week 12/13: Engineering and...Law, Work, your future career, ...
Lecture 15: Week 15: Graduate School, what it is about, why you should or shouldn't apply


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