Welcome to Engineering 100
Engineering Freshman Seminar
(or "How to Succeed in Engineering")
Spring 2005
Course Information
- Meetings
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- Section 001: We will have an organization meeting on Friday, 14 Jan
at 12:30 pm in Holmes 242 to determine the best time for regular weekly
meetings for the rest of the semester.
- Based on the schedules everyone gave me, the best time available for
everyone, including me and the room is Mondays from 3:30-5:00 in POST
214. Our first regular meeting at this time will be on Monday, 24 Jan.
- Text
- "Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career";
Raymond Landis; Discovery Press; 2000.
- Website
- http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~tep/Engr100/S05
Syllabus and Assignments
- Week 14 (2 May 05)
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- Pa`ina
- We will do course evaluation and final discussions for the semester.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 13 (25 Apr 05)
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- Open Session
- We will discuss any issues you would like to bring up in this session.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 12 (18 Apr 05)
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- Advising Session
- We will do advising to help select your courses for next
semester. This can be in place of, or in addition to your regualr
advising session with your faculty advisor.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 11 (11 Apr 05)
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- Darpa
Grand Challenge
- We will continue presentations by the teams this week. Each
team will have about 15 minutes to present and should be able to
finish them up this week.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 10 (4 Apr 05)
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- Darpa
Grand Challenge
- We will begin presentations by the teams this week. Each
team will have about 15 minutes to present, so we will spill over
into next week too.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 4: problems 2, 3, 5, and 8.
- Week 9 (28 Mar 05)
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- Darpa
Grand Challenge
- This will be a working session with your teams to research
and begin preparing your presentations. Presentations will begin
next week.
- Also during this session I will continue meeting individually with everyone
to see how you are doing this semester.
- Readings
- Sections 2.8 to 2.10
- Sections 4.1 to 4.3
- Assignment
- None. Work on your presentations. Have a good Spring Break.
- Week 8 (14 Mar 05)
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- Darpa
Grand Challenge
- This will be a working session with your teams to research
and begin preparing your presentations. Presentations will be
a week after return from Spring Break.
- Also during this session I will meet individually with everyone
to see how you are doing this semester.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 2: problems 11 (1-2 pages is enough), 14 and 15.
- Week 7 (7 Mar 05)
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- Example Engineering Career
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 2: problems 8, 9 and 10.
- Check out this web site
and we will talk about it next week.
- Week 6 (28 Feb 05)
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- Spider
- I will show a video in class and we will discuss it afterward.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 2: problems 1, 2 and 3.
- We are goin to give Chapter 3, problem 15 another try for the
two weeks between meetings.
- Week 5 (21 Feb 05)
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- Week 4 (14 Feb 05)
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- Preparing for lectures
- We will discuss the results of your problem 16 assigned in Week 3.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 8, 9, 10, 12 and 18.
- NOTE: Next Monday (21 Feb) is a holiday, so we wont meet
that week. Our next meeting will be on Monday, 28 Feb. I
will show a video that day which last an hour, so please
arrive on time. We will discuss the video afterward, so
that meeting will be one of our longer sessions, till about 5:00.
- Week 3 (7 Feb 05)
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- Where to go for help
- Your teams will make their services presentations.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 4, 5, 6, 7 and 15.
- For Problems 13 and 14, we will divide up into teams during
our week 2 session and pick centers
for each team to investigate. Each team will prepare a short
ppt presentation on what they found out at the week 3 meeting.
- Chapter 3 problem 16 is a two week assignment. Begin practicing
some of these techniques now (week 2) and we will discuss them
and your paper (one page is enough) at our meeting in week 4.
- Week 2 (31 Jan 05)
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- How are you studying so far?
- We will discuss your results from Chapter 1, problem 14.
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 1, 2, and 3.
- Week 1 (24 Jan 05)
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- What is Engineering?
- Readings
- Assignment
NOTE:
The assignments posted here should be completed by the class day were posted.
You will turn them in on paper (written or typed) with your name on the
paper.
- Aquire the textbook
- Chapter 1: problems 3,4,5,14. For problem 14, hand in your list
and try implementing 2 of these for the next two weeks. We will ask you
to present your findings in class in 2 weeks.