This is going to be my 3rd year in the VRC competition (plus one year in FTC), and the past two years I have felt like my teams Engineering Notebook has not been very good. I am just wondering what type of format or layout you guys use for your engineering notebook. What do you add each meeting, an…

If you’re not eligible for the Design or Excellence award, should you bring a design notebook anyway?

My team uses a combination of both. We have a engineering notebook (composition bound) for documentation of when our team is together and our design process. We also have a binder for diagrams of our autonomous modes, pneumatics, and wiring. Plus we put our internet discussions, which is over fifty…

[image] mediumdave: If you’re not eligible for the Design or Excellence award, should you bring a design notebook anyway? This might be a good idea; it might help you win other awards.

[image] Pastoral_Invasion: Does anyone know if there is any preference between binder and bound options? I know bound notebooks are usually the standard, however feel as if it might be easier to work in a binder format. Also, is an electronic format recommended? How about a notebook with an elec…

For ours, we have drawings of our robot being built. We also have descriptions of how its being built and what we did for each day.

Thank you all for your help so far. I believe I have a good idea for what I am going to do. Keep the good information coming :wink:

Go here ( http://jesseroboticstechsite.weebly.com/ ) and you can download the Word Document which has my rough outline for my engineering notebook. Tell me what you think of it. Thanks!

[image] X-Factor: My team uses a combination of both. We have a engineering notebook (composition bound) for documentation of when our team is together and our design process. We also have a binder for diagrams of our autonomous modes, pneumatics, and wiring. Plus we put our internet discussions…

[image] bgambsky: That sounds like a very nice notebook you got there X-Factor. I hope you do very well in worlds. :rolleyes: lol. Your on the same team :smiley: I hope you do well at Worlds :stuck_out_tongue:

Bot-E Builders: Go here ( http://jesseroboticstechsite.weebly.com/ ) and you can download the Word Document which has my rough outline for my engineering notebook. Tell me what you think of it. Thanks! This would be a great binder, but in my notebook I do everything by date instead of secti…

Format of an Engineering Notebook

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MarkO April 11, 2012, 12:19pm 33

I remember reading about that, and it appears there is a small delay before it becomes effective.

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