Welcome to Engineering 100

Engineering Freshman Seminar

(or "How to Succeed in Engineering")

Fall 2000

Tep Dobry

Course Information

Meetings
Tuesdays, 1:30-3:20, POST 221
Text
"Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career"; Raymond Landis; Discovery Press; 2000.
Website
http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~tep/Engr100/F00

Syllabus and Assignments

Week 14 - 5 Dec 00
Course Evaluation
  • Class activities:
    • Course Evaluation
  • Problem assignment for next time: Good luck on finals :-)
Week 13 - 28 Nov 00
Employment
  • Class activities:
    • Intership and Coop Opportunities
  • Reading assignment for next time: Chapter 6
  • Problem assignment for next time: None
Week 12 - 21 Nov 00
Motivation
  • Class activities:
    • Being a College Student
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 5.3 and 5.4
  • Problem assignment for next time: None
Week 11 - 14 Nov 00
Understanding Yourself
  • Class activities:
    • MBTI
    • Learning Styles
    • Advising Week
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8
  • Problem assignment for next time: None
Week 10 - 31 Oct 00
Personal Growth
  • Class activities:
    • Steps for Change
    • Pizza
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 4.3 and 4.4
  • Problem assignment for next time:
    • Chapter 4 problems 11, 12 and 13.
    • Chapter 4 problems 14, 17, 18, 19, 20 (including the Keirsey Temperament Sorter)
    • Take the Learning Styles questionaire and print out your results. Read the description of your learning style and prepare to discuss it next class.
  • Remember, we will not meet next week due to the holiday (Election Day - go vote!). Our next meeting will be on 14 Nov.
  • Note: As I said last time, I will be collecting your journals at the end of today's class. You can pick up your journals from my office in Holmes 250 from Wednesday, 8 Nov. on.
Week 9 - 17 Oct 00
More Success Strategies
  • Class activities:
    • Career Day
    • Preparing for lectures
    • Skills Survey
  • REMEMBER: there will be no class next week. Our next meeting will be on 31 Oct
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 4.1, 4.2 and 4.5
  • Problem assignment for next time: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,23,24, and 25.
Week 8 - 10 Oct 00
Broadening your Education
  • Class activities:
    • Presentation of companies you found interesting
    • Student Organization discussion
    • Prepare for Career Day
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 3.7 and 3.8
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 3: problems 13, 15, 16, and 18. In addition, attend Career Day on Friday and talk to the representatives of at least 5 companies. Get their business cards and attach them to your journal. For each one, write briefly about what that company does and what opportunities they offer to engineers.
Week 7 - 3 Oct 00
Study Skills
  • Class activities:
    • Studying in groups
    • Study skill survey
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 5.1 and 5.2
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 5: problems 1, 2 and 3. In addition, find out what companies are going to be here for the Engineering Career Fair on Friday, 13 Oct. Pick one of those companies and research it on their web site. Be prepared to give a brief presentation of that company to the class next time.
Week 6 - 26 Sep 00
Academic Success Strategies
  • Class activities:
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 3.5 and 3.6
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 3: problems 3, 5, 6, 12 and 14.
Week 5 - 19 Sep 00
The Engineering Profession
  • Class activities:
    • Journal review
    • How things work
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 3.1 to 3.4
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 3: problems 1, 4, 7, 8 and 9.
Week 4 - 12 Sep 00
Keys to Engineering Success
  • Class activities:
    • Working hard
    • Working smart
    • Thinking positively
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 2.4 to 2.8
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 2: problem 18. In teams we will choose in class today, pick one of the items listed in the problem and prepare a brief oral presentation for the next class. This will not be in your journal, since I will collect them today.
Week 3 - 5 Sep 00
What is Engineering
  • Class activities:
    • "Spider" and discussion
    • "What is engineering" discussion
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 1.5 to 1.12
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 1: problems 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
Week 2 - 29 Aug 00
Keys to success in engineering study
  • Class activities:
    • Name Game
    • Small group discussion of Chap 1 prob 7 and report out
    • Rewards and Opportunities for Engineers
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 2.1 to 2.3.
  • Problem assignment for next time: Chapter 2: problems 1,2, and 3.
Week 1 - 22 Aug 00
What do you want/expect to get out of this course?
  • Reading assignment for next time: Sections 1.1 to 1.4.
  • Problem assignment for next time:
    • Aquire the text.
    • Aquire spiral notebook for Journal
    • Chapter 1: problems 2,3,5,6, and 7.