Lab in Last Week of Classes - Senior Design

The last lab of the term requires you to attend two senior design presentations, writing about them afterwards. Note that it is due during that same week so that there is a definite advantage to attending your sessions earlier in the week.

When and Where are the Presentations

Here’s a google calendar showing the presentation schedule http://goo.gl/VFdH0

· Change to the “Week” view to see the times graphically

· To see the details for each presentation, including the location, student names and the advisor click on the calendar entry.

· Note that the room for the presentations changes between morning and afternoon and on different days. Check the location carefully. The general info is below.

o The garden level is down at the lowest level in One Drexel Plaza, across from LeBow engineering building.

· The presentations are 9-12 and 1-5 Tuesday through Friday (12/4-12/7). If your calendar shows other times your google account probably doesn’t have EST set as the time zone

· Dr. Brehm, the senior design coordinator, advises me that he is going to be very strict about access to the rooms:

o No standing in the room.

o The door will be closed at locked at the beginning of presentations – no late arrivals

Room Locations

When	Building	Floor	Room	Capacity
Tues AM	One Drexel Plaza	Garden level	15	38
Tues PM	One Drexel Plaza	Garden level	13	45
11/30 AM; Wed All	Alumni Engineering	2	275	30
Thus AM	One Drexel Plaza	Garden level	20	42
Thus PM	Randel	3	327	124
Fri AM	Curtis	3	340	139
Fri PM	Curtis	2	231	81

 

Note:  There is still a lab the week before (week-10).  I’m just giving you advance notice.

Memo for IAQ & HVAC Lab

Question

“You had mentioned that there wasn't a memo associated with the tour but I have completed the lab and the lab itself doesn't say anything on the grading scale about a write up or memo.  I just watned to double check that we don't need to write one since every other lab had a memo associated with it?”

Response

You are correct that there is no memo required for this lab.  I guess you can count that as a Thanksgiving gift.

Revit Lab–PDF Printing and Submitting

Questions:

1. Hello, I have one question about Lab 7. I followed the videos, made the Revit model and the output sheet. How do I convert the sheet to a PDF file from Rivet?
2. Also, we're supposed to submit the actual Rivet model, meaning we have to submit the actual file we made upon starting the Rivet videos? Just a little confused, hope you can clear that up thank you.

Response

#1 You need to “Print to PDF”.  On the machines in the lab there is a PDF printer installed – just choose it when you’re printing.

If you’re doing this on your own machine you’ll need to install a “PDF Printer”.  There are multiple free one available.  TechSupportAlert is a good recommendation source – Here’s their link to PDF Printers and tools.

#2 You are to submit three things for this assignment

• The actual Revit File
• The PDF of the “Sheet” that you’ve created
• The Word document defined in the assignment.

Week-8 Rec Center - Lab Locations and Times

This week we’ll be touring the Rec Center AND having time in the lab to address the calculation assignment of the week.  You should plan to be involved the whole two hours of your lab period.

Note that we will meet outside the East entrance to the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (inside if raining).  Here’s a map showing where we’ll meet and where we’ll go.

Wear flat shoes (NOT heels) – we’ll walk on sensitive surfaces.

 

Time & Location

Lab	Last Name	Time	Location	2nd Hour
060	A-Kelly	10:00	Papadakis ISB	Randell-121
060	Kerr-Z	10:00	Randell-121	Papadakis ISB
061	A-K	12:00	Papadakis ISB	Randell-121
061	L-Z	12:00	Randell-121	Papadakis ISB

Revit–Adding Families for Assignment

Question

I was wondering if it would be okay to download doors/windows to include in our project.
Would this affect compatibility while opening the file on another computer that may not have these add-ons?

 

Response

Yes, you may add families to your Revit file. 

So far as I’m aware they will be usable on other computers.

Term Grade Calculations

Question

“I read on the syllabus that students can miss up to 1 lab report. If all lab reports are completed throughout the term, I was wondering how the grading would work. For example, does the lowest grade get dropped? If you could explain that would be very appreciative. Thank you very much for your time. “

Response

When calculating the final grade for the term we will drop the lowest grade for the discussion and for the lab report.  If you miss a lab or discussion you will have received a “0” for that work and thus it will, in effect, be dropped.

Be aware that this calculation will NOT be performed in BbLearn.  What’s on BbLearn will be the starting point for calculations performed in a spreadsheet afterwards.  The BbLearn grade will be lower than your final grade.

Number of Flushes Per Day - 200

Question:

On the TA's slides its says there are 250 flushes per day however in the excel worksheet it says there are 200, which value would you like us to use? Also my calculations are showing that there is no overflow on any day, could this be correct?

Response:

Use the information given in the spreadsheet.  The TA’s information is about methods, not specific numbers.

Lab-6–“Site Visit” Grading Criteria

Question:

“What is meant by relation to site visit in the yellow rubric box on the memo worksheet? I mean which specific site, the rec center and how this impacts the school's water usage?”

Response:

In years past we have had the site visit to the Rec Center in the same week as this calculation exercise.  That was the intent of this grading criteria.  Since we haven’t yet visited the Rec Center the graders will ignore this criteria and give everyone who attempts the memo an automatic 6 points.

You are welcome to anticipate the visit and comment on what you expect will be the the connection, but that is not required.

Lab-7–Revit –Times and Locations

Location

This week’s lab will again be located in the CAEE CadLab in CAT-167.  It’s on the ground floor in the Southeast corner of the building.  CAT is the building to the North of Ludlow (where the food trucks are located)  - Link to Google Maps

Time

Because there are only a limited number of computers in the lab we’re again splitting each section in half, so each comes for only 1 hour.  You may exchange with a student from another section, but please do not come at a time different than the one to which you’re assigned.

Section 060 Last Names
A – Kelly	10:00
Kerr - Z	11:00
Section 061 Last Names
A-K	12:00
L-Z	1:00

 

Revit

We’ll be using the program Revit in the lab.  You’re welcome to download it for your laptop for free from http://students.autodesk.com.

• It’s a 3GB download and a 5GB Install
• You’ll need to register with Autodesk
• It’s for Windows Machines only

11/6/2012 Link for Revit downloaded updated thanks to Nicole Carey

Weekly Discussion Grading - Clarification

Hey all,

Just a reminder that in order to receive full credit, you have to read and respond to at least 3 of your classmates' discussion posts (unless of course you are in the first 3 to post for your department).

Besides that, everything looks good. A lot of you are contributing some great stuff to the weekly discussions. Keep up the good work!

~Mitch & Adrian