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- Course Information
o Professor: Carl G. Schaefer, Jr.
o MW,
o Syllabus, 
- Land Sailor Project
- The performance specification for the semester project contains design constraints, project administration, funding line, documentation requirements, grading criteria, and a sheet of reference material.
- Here is a helpful AMYA (American Model Yachting Association) reference that provides excellent guidance on construction techniques and radio-control system design: “U.S. One Meter Construction Guide”, by Bob DeBow and Bob Jansen, copyright 2000. This is an Adobe Acrobat file.
- Group assignments:
- Team 1: TBA
- Team 2: TBA
- Team 3: TBA
- Sail and Rig Design and Manufacturing: Here is a link to a source for Coverite Micafilm, a Mylar-type material that some model yacht builders have used for sail material. This is only one alternative; obviously, there are other materials that might be just as effective. Here is a link to Sailcut4, a CAD package for designing sails.
- Controls Design and Manufacturing: Here is a link to information about the Futaba 2-channel radio and sail servo’s supplied to you for this project. Please note that this web page includes specifications for servo torque and other pertinent information required for your design. Radio systems and servos will be distributed to the three teams in Week 2.
- A list of URL’s to land sailing Web sites and resources. Many of these web sites include design guidelines, construction guides, and software for assessing land sailor performance.
- Yacht diagram from CNN Sailing.
- Racing Rules of Sailing in brief
- Introduction to sailing and sailing terminology.
- Lecture Slides
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Lecture 1: Introduction to the Engineering Profession (Updated)
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Lecture 2
& 3: Engineering Ethics
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Lecture 4: The Engineering Method
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Lecture 5: Video presentation on
the design and development of the Harley Davidson V-Rod
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Lecture 6: The Systems Engineering Process
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Lecture 7: Tradeoff Analysis in Engineering Design
Decisions. Yacht design spreadsheet
supplement.
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Lecture 8: Civil, Environmental,
and Infrastructure Engineering Lecture
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Lecture 9: Data Acquisition
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Lecture 10: Data Analysis: Basic Statistics
- Announcements and Other References
- Peer advisor roles
and responsibilities memo from the Dean’s Office.