Fandom High School

“Good morning,” Goose began that week’s class, “so we’ve covered the pulley and the wheel and axel, this week our class is going to focus on the lever as our next simple machine,”

“The lever is a simple machine where a bar rotates around a fixed point fulcrum,” he explained, “a fulcrum is best described as the support for a bar,”

“There are three different types of levers,” he continued, “first, second and third class levers and the way that each one is classified is that they each have a different applied point - the effort, the load and the function,”

“Some examples of different levers are - pliers and scissors for first class levers, and going back to our lecture last week a wheelbarrow is also an example of a second class lever,” he added, “finally examples of a third class lever are barbecue tongues, a broom and a fishing rod,”

“For our practical today, we’re going to be looking at making levers,”

“Welcome back,” Goose said, he had been a bit a distracted after his conversation with Walsh on Sunday but this time he had least used that distraction to draw up a proper lesson plan to work on for his next class.

“For the next few weeks we're going to be looking at machines,” Goose explained, “a simple machine is a machine that can change the direction or magnitude of a force,” he started to go into a bit in depth as he talked about simple machines.

“There are six simple machines,” he continued, “the wheel and axle, the level, the inclined plane, the pulley, the screw, wedge and lever, this week we are going to be looking at pulleys,”

“For our practical assignment today I thought we would have a go at making a pulley,” Goose nodded as he handed out the instructions and indicated the range of materials they had to work on.

It was the last week of class and to the surprise of no one, Goose was not really prepared for the class at all.

He had considered a movie day but then he’d gone over his notes from previous classes and decided that finishing on machine drawing wasn’t that bad of an option so he decided to go with that for his class.

“Welcome back,” he said softly and then he looked rather sheepish, “so I don’t actually have anything prepared for your final lesson,” he admitted, “I thought we could take the time and go over machine drawing and then you can start using the techniques to do your own drawings,” he explained.

Goose had been spending most of the week being rather sad and distracted and feeling generally awful from the weekend and in the process he had completely forgotten about his class on Thursday until this morning, he had very briefly decided to do a movie day but then he had found a class that he had used from the last session and decided to use it again.

Admittedly he had used it a couple of times now for his classes but it was at least an easy enough class for him to get together on such short notice for times when he forgot about his class.

Which also tended to happen a lot.

“Welcome back,” he said softly, “this week we’re going to take a look at strength of materials, which is a topic that has been covered before but a good way to test that theory is by making rubber band helicopters ,”

This week Goose had been a lot more prepared for classes and had actually written a lot more detailed lesson plan than before and had also spent more time making sure he had all the necessary components needed for the tutorial as well.

“So this week we’re going to be looking at making a Paper Shredder Machine,” he explained once class was ready to go that afternoon, “which is I find to be good example of electromechanical, engineering,” he added as he started to give a brief overview of what electromechanical engineering was before he turned the focus on the rest of the class on making the paper shredders.

It took Goose a while to remember that he had a class later in the day this session but he did in fact remember when his class was and turned up on time.

“Welcome to A Guide to Mechanical Engineering,” Goose nodded to the class, “I thought for our first class we would start with introductions and then for our first practical we will work on making a Coil Winding Machine, to start getting a feel for machines and it’s a good introduction to automation,” Goose explained.

“So I’m Shane Gooseman, most people call me Goose,” he said, “however it is fine if you would rather call me Shane or Mr. Gooseman instead,” he paused, “I’m from West Australia, 2107 and I serve with the Series 5 Galaxy Rangers where I do a lot of engineering work for the team,”

Mostly because he had damaged the machines in the first place and that’s why they needed fixing but he wasn’t going to mention that fact.

Goose had ended up handwavily spending the weekend back home and had asked Niko to have a look at his communicator and see if she could get any kind of reading on it that would give some indication on the progress that they were making or if she could reestablish a connection but even her abilities weren’t able to get that link up and running again and now Goose was running out of ideas that he could try.

He had managed to get a few more communicators for Summer though, so the trip home wasn’t a complete bust.


“Good morning,” Goose began, “I thought we could start expanding and combining the topics that we've been working on for the last few weeks by beginning to work on a Mechanical Pick and Place Mechanism, and we can look at a more detailed way for the mechanical design process of such a machine,” he explained. "in particular, this is also a good introduction to the pulley system as well, which is a prominent component of mechanical engineering,"

Goose was a bit more distracted than normal when he got have to his class that morning, he kept looking at his communicator, hoping that he would hear from Ignis or Prompto, some kind of indication that there was still a line of communication open.

He had decided to revisit a topic that he covered in class last semester, since he had spent the last few days trying to get in contact with Ignis and not been able to do so.

“Good morning,” he began, finally stopping looking at his communicator for a few minutes so that he could begin the lesson, “this week we’re going to look at strength of materials,” and he began to offer a brief overview on where it related to mechanical engineering.

“For this week’s practical, we’re going to rubber band helicopters and see how far we’re able to propel them and how well the material will hold,”

“Good morning,” Goose said when it was time for class to start, “this week we’re going to start looking at the practical component of this class and I thought to get a good feel for mechanical engineering and the process of building mechanical projects, we’d start by looking at machine drawing,”

“So we’ll start this week by getting a feel for the techniques used” and what’s involved before we move on to the building process,”

It was the final class and while Goose did actually have a lesson planned for the last class, it still felt weird that he’d had two semesters of teaching now and that he’d been able to have a final class both times.

“Good morning,” he said when it time for class to begin, “so this is your final class for the semester and I thought since we started machine drawing last week, I thought that’s what we’d finish with and it’s what we’ll work on for our final practical,” he explained.

“So this lesson is going to focus on two components and the first one is that you will work on building a wind powered car but you will also be doing a machine based drawing on it as well based on the lecture from last week,”

After the news that Goose had gotten over the weekend about Walsh, he hadn’t been able to focus on anything let alone a lesson plan and so he decided to have another movie day and hopefully figure out how to act on the information that he had gotten about both Walsh and Max.

He also hadn’t been sleeping properly either since Monday, so the fact that he had even managed to get to class at all this week was probably an achievement in itself.

“So I know we had a movie day last week,” he said rather apologetically, “but well with the past weekend, I thought we’d try something similar this week but we’re going to be watching a documentary on Apollo 11 and we’ll return to our normal lessons next week,”

At least that was what he was hoping anyway.

“Good morning,” Goose began the session when everyone was seated, “for today’s class we’re going to look at Thermodynamics and how it relates to mechanical engineering,”

He began to start going through what Thermodynamics was and then a more detailed version of the different laws of Thermodynamics.

“For this week’s practical, I thought we’d look at making a steam powered rocket boat,” apparently there was a bit of a theme going on with these last few weeks, “and we’ll see how far we can get them to travel,”

Goose had definitely been taking advantage of the coffee being back the last few days and was quite caffeinated and slightly more energetic than he usually was. He had been careful to not go overboard with drinking too much caffeine but he had definitely had more than he probably should have at this point in the morning.

“Good morning,” he said when everyone had turned up and class was ready to begin, “for today’s class we’re going to be focusing on fluid mechanics and hydraulics and how they relate to mechanical engineering,” he explained and he began to start going into what fluid mechanics involved and what the connections to mechanical engineering were.

“For today’s practical,” he continued once he had finished the lecture component of the class, “we’re going to work an an experiment that we covered last semester and that is we’re going to make paper planes and this will also let us test how fluid mechanics work in relation to the thrust and velocity of the paper planes,”

So the last several days had ended up being rather busy for Goose and in that time he hadn’t thought to get a head start on planning for this week’s lesson and by the time it came round for class, he ended up not having anything prepared.

“Good morning,” Goose nodded, “so I know we were supposed to be continuing to talk about mechanical design but I … well don’t have anything prepared for this week…” he said a bit sheepishly, “so we’re going to be having a movie day instead - this one is based on a true story of how NASA got the first man on the moon,”

Goose had even seen this movie as well - courtesy of some of the movie nights that he’d been had for team bonding night.

Goose was not as distracted as he had been in class last week, even though that was really only because his next … well … his dinner date was tomorrow and he still wasn’t entirely sure what he was supposed to bring over.

“Good morning,” he said when everyone was there, “this week we’re going to explore the different disciplines of mechanical engineering and how they relate to mechanical engineering,”

He began to go into detail about the different disciplines, again it was a very similar lecture to last semester but he felt the lectures were a pretty good overall beginning to mechanical engineering before he began to cover other aspects of the course.

“Similar to another topic that was covered last semester, we’re also going to be working on a pulley for today’s practical since this is another good introduction to mechanical engineering overall and how everything is connected and works,”

“Good morning,” Goose nodded when class was ready to start.

“I thought for this week we will look more in depth at trigonometry and calculus based on last week’s test results,” he explained, it was mostly for Jo’s benefit since Sakaki seemed to have a good working knowledge of math but he wasn’t going to mention that, “last week I went through how each discipline applied to mechanical engineering, this week we’re going to focus not he core principles that these disciplines involve and then I do have textbooks that you can take back with you and that way you can refer to the text throughout the course as we start to discuss mechanical engineering concepts,”

Goose realised that text books probably would have been handy from the first lesson but then this was Goose we were talking about, he was lucky to know what day of the week it was sometimes.

“So the key components for trigonometry are the Law of Sines and the law of Cosines,” and he began to go into depth with these laws and started to go through examples of both, “and then we have the Fundamental theorem of calculus for calculus ,” and he began to go through examples relating to caucus to provide a general overview of how these topics worked,”

Once he had gone through the examples, he handed out the text books and also some worksheets with different problems on them so that they could be completed in the rest of the class.

Goose found that having his class first thing in the morning went well because it meant he could do his early morning run around the island and then go over to set up for class. Even though this week he wasn’t planning on anything that required a lot of setting up do he mostly focused on finalising his next few lesson plans while he waited.

“Good morning,” he nodded once everyone had turned up, “I know we’re a small class this semester and I do know Jo from class last semester but I thought we could still do introductions regardless it is the first week and they’re pretty standard around here,” he grinned, “so why mess with tradition? I’d like to know your name, class and your experience with either mechanical engineering or engineering in general so I’ll start,” he said, “I’m Shane Gooseman, most people call me Goose. I’m from West Australia and its 2107 for me, I’m part of the Galaxy Rangers Series 5 Task Force and part of my responsibilities involving fixing machines or help in the building of them, “ he nodded, “who would like to go next?”

Engineering is over here today for the field trip :)

“Welcome back,” Goose was looking a lot better than he had the previous week, having slept for four days straight and that was also due to the fact that he’d had decent food to eat after Ignis stopped by yesterday, which had been rather unexpected.

“This week we’re going to look at the specific elements and sub disciplines of aerospace engineering and aerodynamics,” he explained and then he went into a detailed explanation of what was specifically involved when studying these particular units of engineering.


“For this week’s practical we will be experimenting with frisbees and how the use of force can determine how far they can travel and we’ll record the different results,” he explained, “we’ll be testing the frisbees both inside and outside to see if there are any differences,”

“Welcome back,” Goose said, he was back in his basic black military uniform today, deciding that was just easier for class than figuring out different outfits to wear all the time, “we’ll be continuing on with our environmental engineering module this week,”

The focus of the lecture component went into detail about the specific sub disclipines of environmental engineering and how they related to environmental engineering over all.

He also then covered wind energy and how that related to environmental engineering since both last week’s and this week’s practical activity both made use of wind energy.

“I thought for this week’s project we might try our hands at making a Wind Powered Car,” Goose explained, “and similar to last week we’ll then go outside to give it a test run and see how they hold up,”

After spending the last several days at home Goose once again barely made it back with half an hour to spare and he hadn’t been able to finish preparing for this week’s lesson so it was time for another movie day.

“I did have something else planned but that will have to be next week’s class so this week is going to be another movie day,” Goose explained, “the movie is about a botanist who gets stranded on Mars but he uses engineering skills to survive his situation,”

Again it was one of those rare occasions where Goose had actually watched a movie and again it came courtesy of Captain Foxx’s movie night recommendations.

“Welcome back, our module for the next couple of lessons will be civil engineering,” Goose began that lecture when everyone was seated, “for this class, we will be going over an overview of civil engineering and looking at what’s involved, and next lesson we will look at ”

He started explaining what civil engineering was and then started
covering the history of civil engineering and highlighting key points through its history.

“For our practical today we will have a go at designing construction plans this can include be for any type of project - building, roads, dams, be as creative as you would like to be,”

“Welcome back,” Goose nodded to his class, “for today’s lesson we’re going to start looking into specific engineering modules and today we are going to be looking at mechanical engineering for the next couple of weeks, this week we will look at the general history and overview of mechanical engineering and next week we will look at specific sub genres and disciplines,”


He began to go into a general overview of thehistoryof mechanical engineering, making sure to highlight specific achievements and what it involved.


“For something different, I thought we would also start the practical components of this course and for this project we will look at the mechanics of an old analogue wall clock, which I realise is probably outdated for most of you, myself included but the principles of mechanical engineering still apply here,” he said, “so you have different options for designs and the tools needed to build and see how you go following the tutorial.”

“Welcome back,” Goose said as he started the lecture for the second week and was wearing shoes, he grimaced a bit “I apologise for last week, I can assure you that it wasn’t normal,” they would have been able to tell that by the sudden lack of pauses in his sentences

“Today we’ll begin an overview of engineering and looking at how it’s advanced over time, for the purpose of this class we will be focusing on the history up to present time,” he paused and glanced at Alara, “and this is of course the engineering history of Earth,”

“There are many disciplines of engineering and we will be looking at some of these modules throughout this course but today’s lesson is designed to provide the historical context and noted achievements that have helped shape engineering today,”

He began to go through some of the earliest accomplishments in engineering, making note of early achievements such as those of the invention of the wheel through to the ancient era and how these designs were the foundations for how engineering would later develop and form to how it was studied and applied in modern times .

He also made note of the different kinds of engineering and what was involved with each discipline. The last topic he covered was a look at what was considered to be the greatest achievements in engineering in the twentieth century


“For today’s discussion, I would like to ask what each of you think is in an important achievement in engineering and why,” he nodded at the class to signal they could start the discussion.