[Ken Leung]

The workshops being offered on the 22nd are:

WORKSHOP CHOICES
***Strength of Materials:
- Tim Craig, Industry Coach, Team #1120; Mechanical & Software Engineer
- Review theory & applications of strength of materials, stress, strain,
torsion
- Review strengths & weaknesses of different materials
- Applications of materials in robotic design

***Electronics & FIRST Robots***
- Harry Garland, WRRF BOD member
- Basics of electronics with respect to robots
- More detail later! Harry has led this successful workshop for WRRF in the
past.

***Robot Physics***
- Eugene Brooks, Mentor, Team #1280; Team 852( prior years); physicist at
Lawrence Livermore.
- Does not require knowledge of calculus, but will require use of algebra &
trigonometry
- Topics Covered: Units; Pressure; Mechanical Leverage as applied to
pneumatics; forces and their components; center of gravity concepts; using
stored energy to mitigate a marginal motor; momentum; and converting
rotational to linear motion.

***Using Excel to a Team's Advantage***
- Ceal Craig, Industry Coach, Team #1120; Project Mgr. & Mechanical Engineer
- Some working knowledge of Excel is assumed
- Bringing a laptop will enable a student to work with instructor along the
way in class, but computer is NOT required for class.
- Power Excel Features to be reviewed: Style sheets, formulas, functions,
graphs, connections between worksheets and workbooks
- Applications to be reviewed in Excel:
-- Running finances for team
-- Keeping track of robot weight throughout build
-- Calculate speed of a motor under a given load
-- Calculate center of mass & tipping condition
- CD provided to workshop participants of above applications