Making You a Better Maker - Jim Brenner of Florida Tech

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Preface

Table of Contents

If clicking on Chapter X in the left column, there is a web site that is specific to that particular chapter.

Links to pictures go outside the Making You a Better Maker electronic textbook.

Chapter 1: The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) (external KEEN card)

Chapter 2: What Should Entrepreneurial Makers Be Able To Do?

Chapter 3: Florida Tech KEEN Grant Goals (external link to FIT site)

Chapter 4: Surveying KEEN Makers

Chapter 5: Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) Focused Maker Education Literature Outside the KEEN Network (external KEEN card)

Chapter 6: Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) Resources for Makers: Card Decks and Subdecks (external KEEN card)

Chapter 7: Six Tools for Making (external KEEN card; external link to FIT site)

Maker/Fabrication Tool Scavenger Hunt with Can Crusher by Susan Henson of Lawrence Tech, https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/653

Custom Design Using 3D Scanning by John Peponis of Lawrence Tech, https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/2325 Generate Good Times (Come On!) by Ben Guidice of George Fox University, https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/233. ArtDuino Make-A-Thon by Chad Stillinger and Chris Sharp of George Fox University, https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/1152

Chapter 8: Inspirations for The Basics of Making Course

Chapter 9: Weekly Lab Lectures

Chapter 10: Link to Basics of Making Course Content

General Engineering Lab Skills: National Instruments LabView Computer Programming, Wiring, Soldering,

Arduino (Blink, Temperature, Load Cell, pH, Salinity), Motors (DC, Servo, Stepper), Robotic Control,

3D Printing, Laser Cutting, Avoiding/Correcting Misprints, Editing G Code, LabSmith Microfluidic Flow,

Electrochemical Concentration Monitoring, Bucknell University Speaker Box (ref.)

Chapter 11: Online Learning, Homework, & Quizzes: Kit Item Identification, Questions & Issues Sheets,

National Instruments LabView Computer Programming, Python Computer Programming,

TinkerCAD Circuits, KiCAD Wiring Diagrams, Bill of Materials, OnShape Computer-Aided Drawing (CAD)

Chapter 12: Project Work, Literature Review and Business Case, Final Design Report, Examples of Student Work, Design Showcase

Students Harry Sale and Jessica Peterson present their nitrogen narcosis sensor and accompanying poster. A robotic Dalek. Daleks are the enemies of the title character in the BBC's Dr. Who TV show.

Chapter 13: Project Engineering, Work Breakdown Structure, Preparing Projects for Venture Capitalists

Chapter 14: Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams, Sensors & Controls, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Equipment,

Optics & Spectroscopy, Maker Equipment Purchasing & Training, Bioprinting

Chapter 15: How This Course Can Help You Improve Yourself, Your Students, and Your University

Chapter 16: How Florida Tech's Nanotechnology Minor Evolved into This Book

Chapter 17: Building Nanotechnology, Materials Characterization, Microfluidics, and Tissue Engineering Research Equipment

Chapter 18: Concluding Thoughts