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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

It was Goose’s last class as a teacher and he felt rather weird about that, that he was getting so very close to leaving Fandom.

After the last week, Goose was also more prepared somewhat with his final class.

“Good afternoon,” he began the class, “I thought for our last class this semester that we would do some drawing for the first half of the class and then we’ll work on building the machines that you end up drawing,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, Fourth Period

Goose had definitely forgotten about class this week in the wake of his 21st birthday celebrations so he decided that they were going to have a movie day today.

“We’re going to watch a movie today,” he said about sheepishly as he started the class, “it’s about an astronaut who gets stranded on mars and he has to find a way to survive,”

He was pretty sure he had shown this movie before in one of his classes but he figured it wouldn’t hurt to show it again.

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Good afternoon,” he said when it time for class to begin, “this week I thought we’d look at doing more machine drawing and that’d we’d also have a go at building what we draw,”

“So this lesson is going to focus on two components and the first one is that you will work on drawing a wind powered car and then you will spend the rest of the class building it,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Good afternoon,” Goose began that week’s class, trying not to think of just how few weeks he had left teaching before he left at the end of the semester, “this week we’re going to be taking a look at fluid mechanics which is the response of fluids to forces exerted on them” he explained, “for our class activity in particular, we going to be experimenting with paper planes to test this theory and we'll be recording our results over a series of tests to see how far our planes can go,” he explained.

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Practical Engineering- Friday, 4th Period

“Sorry about last week,” Goose began that week’s class, “I was called back home unexpectedly but for today’s class I thought we would look at
“wedges, which we did cover briefly when we looked at the six simple machines but wedges are still quite useful to learn about in relation to engineering and a wedge is a simple machine that is used to separate two objects through an application of force,” Goose explained, “examples of wedges include knives, axes, forks and nails,”

“For today’s practical we’re going to be using different wedges to cut different materials,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

Goose had actually remembered his class that week and had been organised enough for the topic that they were going to be covering.

“Good afternoon,” he began, “for today’s class we’re going to be working on a Mechanical Pick and Place Mechanism, earlier in the semester we looked at pulleys and this is compliments this component of mechanical engineering quite nicely” he explained.

“So I’d like you to spend the lesson working on mechanical pick and place machines, paying particular note to how it relates to the pulley mechanism,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Welcome back,” Goose had nearly forgotten that he had class after the last couple of weeks but he was back for that week’s class and he was even had a lesson plan prepared, “I thought this week that we would start to take a look at machine drawing and then you can start using the techniques to do your own drawings,” he explained. “In particular I would like you to draw designs for making a Rube Goldberg machine,”

“Then for the rest of the lesson, we’ll be looking at building your designs for the Rube Goldberg machine,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Good afternoon,” Goose began that week’s class, “I thought for today’s lesson we could have a look at this week we’re going to take a look at strength of materials, which looks at how well a material is able to withstand an applied load without being damaged,” he explained.

“A good way to experiment with this is through making rubber band helicopters and that’s what we’ll be doing for our practical today,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Sorry about last week,” Goose began that week’s class, “I got called away unexpectedly on a mission but for this week, we’re going to take a look at the use of springs and the strength of springs using the application of Hooke’s Law,” he explained, “this determines whether or not that a spring can be an acceptable use of weighing an object,”

“For our experiment today we are going to be making a Spring Scale,”

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

Alara found herself standing in front of a classroom for the second time to teach an energineering class, “so Mr. Gooseman asked me to cover his class because he got called away on a mission,” she began, “this week we’re going to be covering Lock picking,”

She was at least familiar with this topic by now and was pretty confident in her lock picking skills now, “he wants us to practice taking apart a lock pick and put it back together again,” she explained.

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Good afternoon,” Goose nodded when he began that week’s lecture, “I thought this week we would try doing the egg drop the egg drop challenge and we’re going to be spending the lesson working on making containers for the eggs so we don’t break them,” he explained.

This time Goose had actually gotten hard boiled eggs so the experiment shouldn’t be as messy, hopefully.

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Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

“Good afternoon,” Goose nodded once it was time to begin the class, “this week we’re going to cover the six simple machines used in engineering - these are the wedge, wheel and axel, lever, inclined plane and pulley,”

“The wedge can be used to separate two portions of an object and examples of these included a shovel, a knife or an axe,” he continued, “the wheel and axel is a type of machine that operates by using mechanical advantage to make tasks easier, examples of the wheel and axel include the bicycle, a windmill and an analog clock,”

“The lever is a rigid body that is capable of rotating on a point on intensely and examples of this include a seesaw, pliers and a hammer,” he went on, “the inclined plane consists of a sloping surface and is used for raising heavy bodies such as a staircase or a sloping ramp, the screw is an inclined plane around a cylinder and finally the pulley is a wheel that is carried by a flexible rope,” he concluded.

“This week we’re going to be experimenting with pulleys,” Goose told them, “and we’ll have a look at building our own pulley,”

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Practical Engineering- Friday, Period 4

It had taken a while for Goose to remember that he had classes on Fridays this semester but he figured he’d keep this week for introductions so he wasn’t too worried about his class this week.

“Good afternoon,” he said when it was time for class to begin, “my name is Shane Gooseman, I’m from West Australia in 2108 and I’m with the Series 5 Galaxy Rangers where I do a lot of machine repairs,” that he was responsible for why they needed fixing in the first place but he wasn’t sharing that.

“We’ll be starting things off simple this week with introductions and then for next week, we’ll begin our first practical,” he explained. “So I’d like your name and what experiences you have with engineering,”

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Mechanics of Engineering - Wednesday, 1st Period

So far Goose hadn’t noticed that there was anything unusual happening in Fandom today and had decided that it would be easier to have a movie day, “so I thought we have a movie day today,” he began that class, “we’re going to watch a movie about explorers who travel through wormholes to find another suitable planet when the Earth becomes uninhabitable,”

Then he went to turn on the TV and only a Yule log was playing, “oh …” he blinked, “I guess we’re not watching a movie today,” he looked around the room as he tried to think of something else that they could do and realised there were sheets of plain paper there, “erm … we can make paper planes and see how far we can throw them,”

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Mechanics of Engineering - Wednesday, 1st Period

“Welcome back,” Goose said when he started class that week, “sorry about last week’s class, I got called away unexpectedly," he added, "I thought that since we’ve covered the six simple machines we’d start looking at other aspects of mechanical engineering and I thought we’d take a look at lock picking today,”

Goose had also not prepared anything for this week’s class so he had once again gone through his old class notes until he had come across this one he’d done over the summer.

“So for today’s class we’re going to have a look at the mechanics inside of a padlock and take it apart and put it back together again,” he explained.

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The Mechanics of Engineering, Wednesday 1st Period

Unlike the last couple of weeks Goose was actually in front of the classroom today, “good morning, sorry about the last couple of weeks,” he said, “I thought we’d continue with covering simple machines and move on to what will be our last simple machine that we need to cover and that is the screw,”

“The screw is actually similar to an inclined plane but it has a cylinder around it,” he explained, “and they can be used in a number of ways, such as holding things together or being used to lift heavy items,”

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

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The Mechanics of Engineering; Wednesday, First Period [11/02].

It had certainly been a while since Ignis had stepped into a classroom, but he had realized that, with Shane currently a goose at the moment, his students would possibly be without a class this week, and, obviously, something like that simply could not stand.

Granted, Ignis was a bit limited on what he could offer. If he'd had more time to prepare, he was certain he could have come up with something good, but, as it stood, he'd have to make do with something a bit more off the cuff.

With Shane to guide him in the right direction, he made it to the classroom with time to spare, and, when it was time to begin class, he stood and greeted the class with a nod. "Good morning," he said. "You may not know me," he certainly couldn't couldn't discredit the possibility that some of his own former students were in this class, but, of course, at the moment, he had no way of knowing, "but my name is Ignis Scientia, and your usual instructor, Mr. Gooseman, is currently...well..." He gestured toward the bird in question, "a goose. As such, I will temporarily be leading your class today. Since this is hardly my field of expertise, however," and he'd barely had any time to prepare! He might have called in Prompto to handle it, if that were the case, really, and perhaps he should have, but Prompto seemed to be dealing with a lot already as it was right now, "we will be taking a little field trip down to the library. Use this time wisely to find a topic of engineering that interests you and start piecing together a presenation on that topic for the end of class. It doesn't have to be anything to elaborate or in depth, just a nice overview of what you were able to find of interest and a cohesive summary to give to the rest of the class of what you've discovered.

"Any questions before we head out? If not, I'll allow Mr. Gooseman to lead the way, and we'll get started."

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Mechanics of Engineering - Wednesday, 1st Period

At first when Goose had woken up this morning, he had been a little concerned when his black vest seemed to be covered in blood, he had thought he had been injured and his healing factor hadn’t kicked in but on closer inspection it seemed to be ketchup.

Which he still didn’t know how he had managed to get that on there either.

So he was now standing in front of the class, with ketchup stained clothes that didn’t seem to come out and because he was wearing all black, it made it all the more obvious.

“Good morning,” he began, “this week we’re going to continue on with our next simple machine and that is the the inclined plane,”

“The inclined plane is a sloped surface that is used for raising heavy bodies,” he explained, “and that it is a higher elevation attached to a lower elevation, examples of an inclined plane include a ramp, stairs and slides,” he paused

“For our practical today we’re going to be looking at experimenting with a marble and see how much distance the marble travels in equal time intervals,”

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Mechanics of Engineering - Wednesday, 1st Period

“Good morning,” Goose began when he started that week’s class, “this week we’re going to be continuing with talking about simple machines and we’ve already covered the lever, the wheel and axel and the pulley and now we’re going to move on to the wedge and we’ve already covered the lever, the wheel and axel and the pulley and now we’re going to move on to the wedge,”

“A wedge is a simple machine that is used to separate two objects through an application of force,” Goose explained, “and examples of wedges include knives, axes, forks and nails,”

“For today’s practical we’re going to be using different wedges to cut different materials,”

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Mechanics of Engineering - Wednesday, 1st Period

Much like last week Goose had been extremely distracted on the weekend and had not done any kind of lesson planning at all, which was not really a surprise to anyone really and so he had resorted to going over his old notes again and found one that he had done a couple of times before.

“So this week we’re going to be looking at Hooke’s Law and how that relates to mechanical engineering,” Goose explained, “in particular it is the theory of the strength of the spring and we’re going to look at whether or not a spring can be accurate for weighing objects,” he paused, “to test that theory today we’re going to be looking at making a Spring Scale,”