Welcome to Engineering 100

Engineering Freshman Seminar

Meetings

Section 001: Our regular weekly meetings will be on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Holmes 389 beginning on 17 Jan.
Section 001: We will have an organization meeting on Wednesday, 11 Jan at 4:30 pm in POST 214 to determine the best time for regular weekly meetings for the rest of the semester.

Text

"Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career"; Raymond Landis; Discovery Press; 2000.

Website

http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~tep/Engr100/S06

Week 15 (2 May 06)

Week 14 (25 Apr 06)

Week 13 (18 Apr 06)

Week 12 (11 Apr 06)

Design Review
- Your product teams will present their designs for feedback.
- We will do an advising session next week in class.
Readings
- Sections 4.4 to 4.8
Assignment
- Chapter 4: problems 2, 3, 5, and 8.

Week 11 (4 Apr 06)

Week 10 (21 Mar 06)

Raytheon visitors
- Some of our alumni from Raytheon will visit to talk about their engineering careers and answer any questions you have. So come with questions.
- If there is time, we will talk about what you found at Career Day.
Readings
- Sections 2.8 to 2.10 and Summary
- Sections 4.1 to 4.3
Assignment
- None. Work with your teams on your inventions. You will present the preliminary design as a design review after Spring Break.
- NOTE: we will not meet next week (Spring Break) or the week after (Science Fair). Our next meeting will be on 11 Apr. when your teams will present their inventions for a preliminary design review.
- Have a good Spring Break :-)

Week 9 (14 Mar 06)

Using The Engineering Design Process
- We will REALLY talk about problems 6 and 7 in Chapter 2 in class today, so bring your books.
- For those who didn't meet with me this past week, I would still like to schedule a brief meeting to see how you are doing this semester.
Readings
- Sections 2.6 to 2.7
Assignment
- Chapter 2: problem 11.
- Go to Career Day this Friday (17 Mar, from 1-4 pm) and talk to the representatives of at least 2 companies that look interesting to you. Find out what their company does, what kind of engineering jobs they offer, and what their engineers do. Write up what you found out in your email journal this week, and if we have itme, we will talk about them next week.

Week 8 (7 Mar 06)

The Engineering Design Process
- We will talk about problems 6 and 7 in Chapter 2 in class.
- I would also like to schedule a brief meeting with each of you to see how you are doing this semester. I will have a signup sheet in class.
Readings
- Sections 2.4 to 2.5
Assignment
- Chapter 2: problems 8, 9 and 10.
- Check out this web site and we will talk about it next week.
- This one might be interesting too.

Week 7 (28 Feb 06)

Week 6 (21 Feb 06)

Preparing for lectures
- We will discuss the results of your problem 16 assigned in Week 4.
Readings
- None
Assignment
- None
- I will show a video next week which lasts 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 5 (14 Feb 06)

Where to go for help
- Your teams will make their services presentations.
Readings
- Sections 3.7 to 3.8
Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 8, 9, 12 and 18.
- We will discuss the results of your problem 16 assignment next week.

Week 4 (7 Feb 06)

Studying Smart
- Everyone will report back about their experiences with Chaplter 1 problem 14
Readings
- Sections 3.4 to 3.6
Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 4, 5, and 15.
- For Problems 13 and 14, we will divide up into teams during this 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 5 meeting.
- Chapter 3 problem 16 is a two week assignment. Begin practicing some of these techniques now (week 4) and we will discuss them and your paper (one page is enough) at our meeting in week 6.

Week 3 (31 Jan 06)

How are you studying so far?
Readings
- Sections 3.1 to 3.3
Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 1, 2, and 3.
- We will discuss your problem 14 in Chapter 1 next week.

Week 2 (24 Jan 06)

Getting a good start
Readings
- Sections 1.5 to 1.12
Assignment
- Chapter 1: problems 6, 11 and 15.
- For the problem 14 you did this week, we will discuss them in class, and have you try to implement 2 of these for the next 2 weeks. We will discuss what you did to "study smart" and how you found these things to work in class in 2 weeks.

Week 1 (17 Jan 06)

Introductions
Readings
- Chapter 1 Sections 1.1 to 1.4
Assignment
NOTE: The assignments posted here should be completed by the next class meeting. You will turn them via email to tep@eng.hawaii.edu.
- Aquire the textbook
- Chapter 1: problems 3,4,5 and 14.