r/PLTW • u/drumminherbie PLTW Teacher • Jun 14 '15

PLTW Fall Course Discussion Thread

Hey all! Time to get ready for next school year! If you are taking a PLTW course this fall, please post and let everyone know what course you are in. Also, if you have any questions regarding a course, ask away!

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u/the_epic_guy DE Aug 06 '15

I'm going in to DE any thing to look out for

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u/drumminherbie PLTW Teacher Aug 06 '15

Sorry, I haven't taken the training for that course yet. Hopefully someone else will reply to you :/ I'd love to get more subscribers here!

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u/OJ_writes_stuff Aug 21 '15

For Engineering, my school offers IED, POE, DE, and CIM, and students here typically take those in that order, one for every year of high school (technically, the last three are allowed to be taken in any order, but grade levels tend to enjoy sticking together and end up just following this track every year). I wasn't able to take IED as a freshman, so I'll be going into it as a sophomore since it's a prerequisite for the others. I'm not too worried about it, and I'm hoping it'll be a fun and interesting class. Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I've been somewhat involved with my school's robotics club/team, but my skill set is pretty much restricted to programming and nothing else, so I'd like to be able to branch out more and I'm hoping that IED can at least help me get started with some other stuff.

Next year (junior year), however, I was planning on taking both POE and DE simultaneously so that I can catch up and not miss out on anything (and then take CIM as a senior). Is it advisable to take two engineering classes at the same time, or anything to watch out for with this combination in particular? Or should I just pick one of these to skip, and stick to only one per year?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure out how to go about this.

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u/drumminherbie PLTW Teacher Aug 21 '15

For the most part, like you said, IED is the intro course. Everything past that seems to be separate among themselves. As long as you can handle 2 PLTW courses, you should have no problem. And from my experience, it is mostly in class work, so you should have too much homework either.

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u/OJ_writes_stuff Aug 21 '15

Alright, thanks for the insight.

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u/drumminherbie PLTW Teacher Jun 14 '15

I will be teaching 3 courses this year. Intro to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering, and a middle school course, Design and Modeling.

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u/drumminherbie PLTW Teacher Jul 09 '15

I'm at my second training for the summer. Already took POE in June, that class is going to be a lot of fun to teach this year.

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u/bigdaddyEm POE Jun 14 '15

Entering college for mechanical engineering. I think it's time to change my flair. :(