The Greeks 2500 years ago used this for extending their brains. Our brain has a huge section reserved for geography (location).

can express and work through frustration with more variety (drawings, writing fast, slow, carefully, scribbling, switching from drawing to writing, changing font (cursive, block, upper, lower)) than hitting a keyboard or mouse.

The goal of this course is to begin writing in the notebook in a way that: The pattern of writing and what is written about is constantly changing. Trained as an electrical engineer, he kept a procession of spiral notebooks filled with the details of every step he'd ever taken, with time and date.Įngineering notebooks vary tremendously. This is why engineering notebooks can be seen in movies and TV shows (like the Numb3rs) and are even referenced in modern science fiction:įelix was a type-one admin, with an extra seventy or eighty pounds all around the middle.Van was reliable and methodical. all start with a strong narrative in the notebook.Įngineering is about reproducible methods and practices. The engineering deliverable documentation of knowledge, problems, failures, starting points, decision trees/matrixes, safety, tests, success, theory of operation, troubleshooting guides, recycling, disposal, storage. Tesla museums are just now being created in cultural crowd sourcing areas leveraging the sometimes magical, often anti-scientific, personal creativity of the crafts. Tesla is only remembered for 'AC power, electric motors, and demos.' Museums today house Edison's notebooks. Tesla did not improve any human institutions. Edison's research lab was the prototype for the most respected engineering labs. Notebooks are still important.Įdison had approximately 2500 engineering notebooks when he died. Do you want to be famous? Perhaps you just want to be an engineer. Then he did them again before publishing his 1936 paper that made him famous. According to Einstein's notebooks, in 1912 he first did the gravitational lensing calculations. The history of formal engineering notebook writing traces way back into history. GoingToDo Doing RANT (Reflect Analyze Next sTeps) The engineering notebook format here focuses on capturing the strongest possible narrative during the experience of frustration, writing before doing, while doing and learning to take breaks from doing: reflect, analyze and be intentional about the next steps. Notebooks have turned away from repositories of corporate data and into an intensely personal experience. The mere act of searching or clicking on google 'revision history' or wiki 'view history' forces one out of the relaxed 'absorbing the universe, looking for a muse' into a determined, goal oriented, inward driven experience. Computers are not good at capturing geography (where a drawing is made in a notebook) or versions. It appears that notebooks are a desirable difficulty. An NPR Story dated 6/2015 describes a large statistical difference between those taking notes on a computer and those writing notes. Requires a Microsoft login to use PowerPoint.Quiz An Open Engineering Notebook. Microsoft PowerPoint (if Google is not available to you)įree to use templates for Microsoft PowerPoint. These links will prompt you to make a copy of this file in your Google Drive Requires a Google login to use Google Slides.

Part images are available in scales of 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3 and include multiple views. We also have Digital VEX Parts ready to copy into your notebook, including all the IQ and V5 wheels, gears, structural parts, electronics, and much much more. ideas for collaborating with multi-user notebooks.game field top view with moveable objects.game field top view with objects in the starting position.multiple styles of grid pages at scales of 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3.

Send suggestions and comments about these Digital Notebooks and Digital Parts to Template Details See to learn more about paper and digital notebooks.Each template also has an example notebook with tips for teams. Just add your thoughts, ideas, strategy, robot designs, and code and document your iteration process.

VEX has prepared templates for engineering notebooks, which make starting your first digital Engineering Notebook as easy as possible.

Engineering notebooks