Semester Exams

We are now at the end of the semester, and it is hard to believe.  All classes will review for semester final exams on Friday & Monday.  Exams start next Tuesday, which is a full day of school.  Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are all half days, where students are dismissed at 1:15.  No lunches are served on the short days.  Here is a link to the schedule for exams. 



The CEA exam will be during on Friday from 11:15 until 1:15. 

Note that no one will be able to exempt the spring exam as PLTW requires us to give an end of course exam to all students.  If you want to exempt anything in CEA, this would be the one. 


Students who wish to exempt may pick up the forms in the office today or tomorrow after school.  Completed, signed forms are due back in the office Monday afternoon by 4:30.  Don't be late! 

Week of November 14

We will finish up the Habitat for Humantiy house design this week.  Students should finish up the electrical plan, and then we will look at the plumbing plan.  Both of these can be done by diagraming the wire (or plumbing) routing by hand on a clean copy of the floor plan. 

Remember that he required products from this project are:
  Construction Drawings

o   Site Plan

o   Rendering

o   Floor Plan (fully dimensioned)

o   4 Elevations

o   Interior Elevations of bathroom and kitchen (Optional)

o   Typical Wall Section including foundation(with labeled components)

o   Window Schedule

o   Door Schedule

o   Room Schedule

o   Electrical Plan

o   Plumbing Plan

·         Support Documents

o   2 Alternate Floor Plan Bubble diagrams in your journal

§  These sketches should be created during the client consultation.

o   1 Floor Plan Preliminary Rough Sketch in your journal

o   Final Floor Plan Sketch in your journal

§  This sketch is should be created during the consultation with your client and is the option selected. The sketch should be reviewed after feedback, approved and signed by the client.

o   Electrical Plan sketch

o   Plumbing Plan sketch

 Calculations

o   Water Supply Calculations (checked by peer)

o   Storm Water Runoff calculations (checked by peer)

o   Wastewater Calculations (checked by peer)

By request, we will then move on to allowing students to design their "dream home". 

Open (School) House & Lab Fees

Please remember to have the $35 lab fee to my by this Friday (Sep 2).  If you need to work out arrangements, just please speak with me so that I will know.  I definitely understand that you have gotten a lot of fees right here at the first of the year and will be happy to work with you.

Mark your calendars for RRHS Open House on Monday September 12.  The evening will start with a PTSA meeting.  Afterward, you will go through the student's entire schedule.  I hope to see you in person and meet you then.  Watch the school page or check back here for more information.

Finally, I use Moodle quite a bit.  I like that I can post assignments and even lessons for students to access from home.  In that way, you have access not only to what you need to complete a homework assignment, but you can review the material in which it is taught as well.   Unfortunately, RRISD is experienceing some difficulty with the servers that support MOODLE at this time.  It is subject to going down and may not be available at all times.  Please bear with us as our tech team works to improve the uptime and bandwidth.  This is not the norm, and I believe that they will find a solution for us soon.    

Howdy!

Welcome to back to the RRHS engineering program, Civil Engineering & Architecture, and my CEA blog. I plan to use this site to keep students and parents up to date on what is happening. The Google Calendar on your right will list out assignments and other events related to our class. Details and other information regarding the assignments will be on the Moodle site . You will log in to Moodle using your school computer ID and password.

Once in Moodle, select "All Courses" on the left side and surf to RRHS then Electives and finally find my name.  Select the Civil Engineering & Architecture course from the list.  The enrollment key is "Thursday".

 Use these links to download the course syllabus and computer-use contract. 

I look forward to a great year!