Welcome to Engineering 100

Engineering Freshman Seminar

(or "How to Succeed in Engineering")

Spring 2007

Tep Dobry

Course Information

Meetings

• Section 001: Our weekly meetings will be on Mondays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm in POST 214 beginning on 22 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/S07

Syllabus and Assignments

Week 13 (30 Apr 07)

• Pa`ina
• Readings
  • None
• Assignment
  • None
  • Good luck on finals

Week 12 (23 Apr 07)

• Sustainable Design Presentations
• Readings
  • Skim Chapter 6
• Assignment
  • None

Week 11 (16 Apr 07)

• Micromouse
• Readings
  • Skim Chapter 6
• Assignment
  • Prepare for your sustainable design presentations (10 minutes) next week.

Week 10 (9 Apr 07)

• Advising
  • We will do an advising session this week in class.
• Readings
  • Skim Chapter 5
• Assignment
  • Prepare for your sustainable design presentations (10 minutes) in 2 weeks.

Week 9 (2 Apr 07)

• Design Review
  • Your sustainability 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 and 8.

Week 8 (19 Mar 07)

• Sustainability Project
  • We will talk about what you found at Career Day.
  • We will also break up into teams to investigate how engineers can address sustainability on campus.
• Readings
  • Sections 2.8 to 2.10 and Summary
  • Sections 4.1 to 4.3
• Assignment
  • None. Work with your teams on your sustainability ideas. We will take this project through the first four steps of the design process. You will present your ideas in your teams as a design review after Spring Break.
  • NOTE: we will not meet next week (Spring Break). Our next meeting will be on 2 Apr. when your teams will present their sustainability ideas in a preliminary design review.
  • Have a good Spring Break :-)

Week 7 (12 Mar 07)

• Spider
  • I will show a video in class and we will discuss it afterward.
• Readings
  • Sections 2.6 to 2.7
• Assignment
  • Chapter 2: problem 11.
  • Go to Career Day this Friday (16 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 we will talk about them next week.
  • I would also like to schedule a brief meeting with each of you next week to see how you are doing this semester. I will have a signup sheet in class.

Week 6 (5 Mar 07)

• The Engineering Design Process
  • We will talk about the Engineering design process in class and discuss a project for the semester.
  • I will be showing a video next week in class which runs about an hour, and we will discuss it afterwards. So please try to arrive on time next week and plan to run a little longer than usual.
• Readings
  • Sections 2.3 to 2.5
• Assignment
  • Chapter 2: problems 3, 8 and 10.

Week 5 (26 Feb 07)

• Where to go for help
  • Your teams will make their services presentations.
• Preparing for lectures
  • We will discuss your results for problems 15 and 16.
• Readings
  • Sections 3.7 to 3.8 and Sections 2.1 to 2.2
• Assignment
  • Chapter 3: problems 8, 9, and 18.

Week 4 (12 Feb 07)

• 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 13, 14, 15 and 16.
  • 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 (5 Feb 07)

• An example engineering career
• 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.
  • Check this out.

Week 2 (29 Jan 07)

• 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 (22 Jan 07)

• 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.