Day 1: (Wed Jan 19, Week 1) Welcome!

Notes for 2022-01-19.

I will post a daily agenda page for each class; this will be your essential guide to the progress of the class.

Please note the first two weeks of class meetings will be held on Zoom; the Zoom login is always available for logged-in users on the Zoom Meeting page. After that we will meet in Hunt A4, a large classroom which used to be a computer cluster.

New Assignment

• Due before Mon Jan 24 (next class): Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming.

Daily Agenda

1. Introductions

   • Your instructor

   • Brief synopsis of the course objectives

   • Mutual introductions

   • Questions?

2. Administrative

   • Tour of the course site

   • Laser cutter qualification: see IDeATe Laser Cutter Policies

   • IDeATe 3D-printing. 3D CAD?

   • IDeATe lab access.

   • Canvas calendar?

   • Class Session Recordings

   • Quarantine and Isolation

   • S22 Office Hours Poll, Office Hours.

3. Viewings

4. Discussion

5. Anatomy of a research paper (see [R37])

6. S21 student project example: grubo

7. First assignment: Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming.

8. Techniques and skills

   • VPN (Carnegie Mellon University VPN)

   • searching for papers (e.g. IEEE Xplore)

   • citations (e.g. Bibliography of Soft Robotics (S22))

   • DOI

   • Zotero citation export

Viewings

FAU Robotic Jellyfish

MIT Tangible Media Group - Venous Materials

Injecting liquid metal into channels for soft artificial skin