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1 Computer Essentials for Engineers GNG1103 – Engineering Design Objective This lab's objective is to teach students how to use three critical tools. The lab is divided into three sections, A, B, and C: A. Microsoft Excel (A): Scientific user orientation, rather than business B. Microsoft Word (B): technical report basics C. Trello (C): Task tracking This lab is not intended to be an exhaustive or even a complete tutorial on all of these programs' features. Rather than that, it focuses on their most pertinent or useful characteristics. As always, "the internet is your friend," and we'll practice using it to help find a desired feature. This skill allows you to continue to be a “lifelong learner”, once you exit the classroom, and this skill is not to be under-appreciated and is worth practicing! Someone else has probably had and has probably already solved your problem. Apparatus and Equipment Overview A PC or MAC computer is needed, with the required tools already installed, if possible. There are a limited number of lab machines available, however, as backups or for users who do not own or who forget their own computers. Do not count on one of these being available, especially in the larger lab sections. Pre-Lab Preparation You will also learn better, if you use your own computer than if you share the one in the lab with a group of other people. More personal “hands - on” time is much better for learning. While using Microsoft applications, install them and try them out to make sure that they are working before the lab period and remember to bring your computer with you to your lab session! Also, take a look at available videos in the specific product folders in Brightspace (e.g. there is one in the ‘ Lab 2 ’ folder). Watch them or take advantage of some of the many tutorial videos for these products that are available on the internet. If you don’t already have Microsoft 365 installed on your computer, you can follow these steps and login with your uOttawa credentials: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/download- and-install-or-reinstall-microsoft-365-or-office-2021-on-a-pc-or-mac-4414eaaf-0478-48be-9c42- 23adc4716658 Note that there is supplementary high-quality video training information about these tools. You can find a large range of tutorials and information on a wide range of subjects. In all likelihood, you will be learning via the internet (or whatever replaces it) for the rest of your life.
2 Much of that information is free. However, getting access to higher-quality material generally has a cost associated with it. This will give you a good running start at the labs here and is very worthwhile, especially for the newer users in the class. However, even power users can improve. Often, such people are power users precisely because they have embraced the challenge of constantly learning and improving their knowledge, in whatever ways that they can! How to “google” Nowadays one of the most important skills to have is how to look for information. Information can be found in different forms (media, blogs, books, journal and magazine articles, web pages, etc). Search engines are used to find information around the world by just a few clicks. You will be using these skills to answer some questions during this lab. Revision Questions (PC) What does CTRL+s (the control key is held down simultaneously with s ) do? ______________________________________________________________________________ (MAC) What does ⌘ +s (the command key with s held down simultaneously) do? ______________________________________________________________________________ For all of the previously-mentioned Microsoft applications (PC or MAC) how does the autosave feature work (Microsoft tools only) and how can it be customized? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What are the basic elements (arranged in a grid) called in Excel? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ What are 3 main parts of a technical document? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Why is a project planning or work planning important? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
3 Submission (40 pts) You will submit the answers to all your questions from each part of the laboratory in 1 single document. In total, you must submit: - A PDF document containing the answers to all the questions from the 3 parts of the laboratory (Excel, Word, Trello) , a template is shown below (23 pts) - Your spreadsheets in .xlsx format (Excel) , both the graph and student ones (3 pts) - Your version of the basic technical document (Word) (8 pts) - Your screenshot of the snapshot email (Trello) (6 pts)
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