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Board Copy of Guitar Engineering Course of Study Basic Course Information Course Title: Guitar Engineering Transcript Title(s)/Abbreviation(s): Guitar Engineering Course Code(s): 5863S1, 5863S2 Length of Course: ❏ Semester ✓ Full Year Subject Area: Science Discipline: Interdisciplinary Honors Designation: Not Applicable Grade Levels: ❏ 9th ❏ 10th ✓ 11th ✓ 12th Course Learning Environment: ✓ Classroom ❏ Online Is this an integrated Career Technical Education course? ❏ Yes ✓ No If yes, please name the Industry Sector and Career Pathway: Course Description This course looks at the design elements, manufacturing and assembly of solid-body electric guitars. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts that relate directly to guitars are used to help students make an applied learning connection. Each student will construct their own electric guitar. The course will cover wood Guitar Engineering Course of Study 1 species and the environment, guitar headstock design features, chemistry of finishes, math applications in a guitar, physical science aspects of the guitar such as concepts of sound waves, string tension, fretboard layout, intonation, and electronics. Studio-style class, lecture and lab time combined throughout the course. http://catalog.fairfield.edu/courses/eg/ A large component of the course involves building skills in the shop and life skills. Students will be in an environment that fosters confidence and encourages students to take risks. For example, designing and building a speaker will allow students to practice soldering, making circuits and using the laser cutter before they utilize these skills on their guitars. Students need practice so they can take risks in a controlled environment prior to their build. Throughout this course, students will engage with phenomena and design challenges to make sense of abstract physical principles, such as sound waves, tolerance, circuits and electromagnetic fields. The rigor of this course will prepare students for creating their own musical instrument design. Students will demonstrate their ability to use this knowledge through their working instruments. Tentative Guitar Engineering Calendar for 2021.22 Piedmont High School students will have the opportunity to learn all of the engineering practices (SEPs) in the NGSS framework. These engineering performance expectations are addressed throughout the course. o Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants. HS-ETS1-1 o Design a solution to a complex real-world problem by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable problems that can be solved through engineering. HS-ETS1-2 o Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts. HS-ETS1-3 o Use a computer simulation to model the impact of proposed solutions to a complex real-world problem with numerous criteria and constraints on interactions within and between systems relevant to the problem. HS-ETS1-4 Prerequisite(s) ✓ Required: Chemistry in the Earth System, Integrated Math 2 ❏ Recommended Co-requisite(s) ✓ Required: Integrated Math 3 ❏ Recommended Course Content: For each unit of the course, provide: ● A brief description of topics to be addressed that demonstrates the critical thinking, depth and progression of content covered including alignment to standards. ● A brief summary of at least one assignment that explains what a student produces, how the student completes the assignment and what the student learns. ● Also, include a detailed description of end-of-semester and end-of-course assessments. Guitar Engineering Course of Study 2 Table of Contents COURSE OF STUDY 0 BASIC COURSE INFORMATION 0 COURSE DESCRIPTION 1 COURSE OVERVIEW 1 PREREQUISITE(S) 1 CO-REQUISITE(S) 1 UNIT 1 3 OVERVIEW: INTRODUCTION TO THE FABRICATION LAB AND GUITAR ANATOMY 3 Unit description Learning Objectives 3 Example assignments Detailed assignment description 3 Industrial Arts Skills Unit 2 4 GUITAR BODY AND HEADSTOCK DESIGN 4 Unit description 4 Example assignments 5 Industrial Arts Skills 5 UNIT 3 5 ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE WOODS 5 Unit description 5 Example assignments 6 Detailed assignment description 7 UNIT 4 7 NECK ASSEMBLY AND FABRICATION 7 Unit description 7 Example assignments 8 Detailed assignment description 8 UNIT 5 8 ELECTRONICS 8 Unit description 8 Example assignments 9 Detailed assignment description 10 Unit 6 10 ASSEMBLY 10 Unit description 10 Example assignments 10 Detailed assignment description 11 Guitar Engineering Course of Study 3 Unit 7 UTILIZING CNC TECHNOLOGY 11 Unit description 1 Example assignments 10 Detailed assignment description Unit 8 12 CAPSTONE PROJECT: EFFECTING CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH MUSIC 12 Unit description 12 Example assignments 12 Detailed assignment description END OF SEMESTER AND END OF COURSE ASSESSMENTS 11 COURSE MATERIALS 11 Unit 1 Overview and introduction to various musical genres and plucked instruments Unit description Students will begin the year by exploring the shop and guitar anatomy. Beginning with an initial build of a “diddley bow,” students will learn how to use electric drills, the drill press and laser cutter for the creation of cigar boxes. Through a series of labs, readings, lectures, and videos, students will demonstrate their ability to explain guitar parts, cost and body shapes for specific music genres. They will apply their knowledge in the development of a podcast or TED talk regarding music and critical analysis of models and by constructing explanations of their developing physics knowledge. Learning Objectives: 1. Students will identify all the parts and components of an electric guitar. 2. Students will compute the cost of purchasing the components necessary to build an electric guitar. 3. Students will construct an Excel spreadsheet that uses formulas to calculate the total cost of the components necessary to build an electric guitar Example assignments How to Build a Diddley Bow- students will build a diddley bow either by using recycled materials or designing a cigar box with the laser cutter. Shop skills: cutting with hand saw or band saw, use electric drills, power sander and laser cutter Detailed assignment description: Cost Estimate and Guitar Anatomy Activity - Students will engage their research skills to find credible sources of information in multiple modalities of text to investigate real world costs for guitar building. Students will engage in peer critique and feedback during group discussion to determine the most realistic range of products. In order to successfully estimate the cost of building an electric guitar, students must calculate the cost and quantity of the following components: body, neck, fretboard, jack, potentiometers, capacitors, pickups, strap Guitar Engineering Course of Study 4 buttons, bridge, volume/tone knobs, ferrules, neck plate, screws, tuning machines, fret wire, fretboard, nut, truss rod, fret dots, bridge, and strings. In doing so, students will learn basic business math computation; how to create and use an Excel spreadsheet with formulas; how to search and locate specific items online; how to compare/contrast the quality vs. cost of different options for purchasing one specific part over another; make final selection decisions for each part; and identify each component of the electric guitar anatomy. Guitar Body Shape and Material Project - Student choice will drive this activity. Students may choose to research their favorite guitar musician, different types of plucked string instruments (ukulele, bass guitar, bluegrass guitar, electric guitar or acoustic guitar) or a specific fashion of music. Students will derive a relationship between favorite types of woods for the guitar body (extension for the fret board) and shapes for the best sound. Students will develop a “claim” for the best composition of parts for their given choice. In all projects, the guitar body will be defined and a laser cut model will be produced for props during the gallery walk. Digital skills that will be focused on in this assignment are utilizing tutorials on how to create a multimedia product for sharing information via a Podcast or TED talk Industrial Arts Skills: Laser cutter and accompanying software Unit 2 Guitar body and headstock design Unit description In this unit, students will select a guitar body and design a headstock design for their initial guitar build. The importance of uniformity and tolerances will be applied based on their prior research and additional resources provided. Students will review videos on how to best sculpt guitar bodies in order to make sound decisions regarding the tools and skills they want to utilize for their design. Resources will be provided to inform students regarding the variety of body and head shapes. Learning Objectives: 1. Students will identify the various ways that tolerances are specified on a technical drawing. 2. Students will calculate the minimum and maximum size of a part or location based on the specified tolerance. 3. Students will specify dimensional tolerances based using available engineering information. 4. Students will apply polygon properties and scale by creating a scaled drawing of a guitar shape, dividing the irregular guitar shape into polygons and circle sectors, then measuring, calculating, and combining the individual areas. 5. Students
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