Online Syllabus



Online Syllabus

1. Course Name – Introduction to Three dimensional CAD with Inventor

2. Course Description – Each course should include a description that clearly defines the scope and content of the course. It should also set forth the learning objectives for the student.

3. Resource requirements – All students taking an online course will be expected to have access to a computer connected to the Internet and loaded with the appropriate Internet access software as well as MS-Office or a compatible package. Students are require to download and run Autodesk inventor on their personal PC. The software is avalible at . This is a free trial version. this version can do everything that is needed through this course. This section should identify any additional hardware or software that will be needed (such as a graphing calculator) as well as textbooks and/or other resources.

4. Introduction to the Textbook - The text book that is required for this course is Learning Inventor 9 by Thomas short, Anthony Dudek, Bill Kramer published by Good-Herat Willcox/

5. Student Learner Responsibilities page - students are required read to complete the exercises at the end of each chapter and email the projects at the end of each week. students will need to complete an on-line quiz every three weeks. Questions will be taken from the require chapters for those weeks only.

6. Instructor information – Mr. Timothy Closs will be the instructor foe this course. he is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a teaching degree in industrial Technology. With Mr. Closs's work experience as an Aerospace engineer he has acquired a vocational certification for drafting and design .

7. Online Office Hours -Mr. Closs can be reached by email at anytime. The email address is : tcloss01@. Mr. Closs will be on Black Board IM for students from 8am to 3pm. The structure of this class is built to allow students to work at their own pace students are required to check in at least twice a week for any announcements or quizzes. students check in by logging on to the class website.

8. Grading Policy and Scale – Each course should include a grading policy and the scale used to assign grades. A typical policy would be:

Attendance @ 1 points each x 15 = 15

Excersises @ 20 points each X 82 = 1640

Quizzes @ 10 points each x 4 = 40 points

Final @ 300 points = 300 points

Total Point Total = 2000 points

With a scale of:

A= 90% or above (1900-2000 points)

B= 80% - 89% (1800-1899 points)

C= 70% - 79% (1700-1799 points)

D= 60% - 69% (1600-1699 points)

Failing - 59% or below (1599 points or less)

9. Number of Lessons – There will be 12 lessons in this course the last few chapter will be longer due to the complexity of the projects.

10. Course outline –Week 1 chapter 1&2: Introduction to inventor & The user interface

Week 2 chapter 3: Sketching, Constraints, and Base Feature

Week 3 Chapter 4: More complex Sketching

Week 4 Chapter 5 : Secondary Sketches

Week 5 Chapter 6 : Adding Features

Week 6 Chapter 7 : Adding More Features

Week 7 Chapter 8 : Creating Drawings

Week 8 Chapter 9 : Dimensioning and Annotating Drawings

Week 9 Chapter 10 : Sweeps and Lofts

Week 10 & Week 11 Chapter 11 : Building assemblies with constraints

Week 12 & week 13 Chapter 12 : Working with Assemblies

Week 14 & Week 15 Chapter 13 : Motion constraints and Assembiles

Week 16 : Final exam

11. Attendance requirements – The expectations for attendance is that you will be logging into the website at least twice this will be recorded through a counter.

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