Welcome to Engineering 100
Engineering Freshman Seminar
(or "How to Succeed in Engineering")
Spring 2008
Course Information
- Meetings
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- Section 001: Our weekly meetings will be on Mondays from
1:30 to 3:00 pm in POST 214 beginning on 14 Jan.
- Text
- "Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, 3rd Edition";
Raymond Landis; Discovery Press; 2007.
- Website
- http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~tep/Engr100/S08
- Homework Assignments
- The Assignements given in the Syllabus below will be turned in
this semester using Laulima,
the new course collaboration system.
Syllabus and Assignments
Week 14 (5 May 08)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
Week 13 (28 Apr 08)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
Week 12 (21 Apr 08)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
Week 11 (14 Apr 08)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 6 problems 3 and 5.
Week 10 (7 Apr 08)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Work on your product design. Be prepared to present your
design next week in class.
Week 9 (31 Mar 08)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Write a one page paper on your reactions to Spider. What aspects
of the Engineering Design Process did you see there? Did that motivate
you to succeed in engineering?
Week 8 (17 Mar 08)
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- Activities
- Career Day
- The Engineering Process
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 2: 6, 7, and 8.
- Enjoy Spring Break
Week 7 (10 Mar 08)
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- Activities
- Weekly Schedule: how did it go?
- Prepare for Career Day
- Readings
- Sections 5.4 and 2.1 to 2.2
- Assignment
- Chapter 5: problems 8 and 9. We will discuss these next week.
- Chapter 2: problem 1.
- Go to Career Day of Friday, 14 Mar from 1-4 pm.
Talk to representatives from at least 3 companies. Find out what
their company does; what opportunities are available for
engineers; what they look for in prospective employees.
Come prepared to discuss what you found (and bring any trinkets
you collected) next week in class.
Week 6 (3 Mar 08)
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- Activities
- Reading for Comprehension: how did it go?
- Support Center presentations
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 5: problems 3, 5 and 10. We will discuss these next week.
Week 5 (25 Feb 08)
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- Activities
- Support Center presentations
- Preparing for lectures: how did it go?
- Readings
- Sections 4.4 to 4.5
- Section 5.1
- Assignment
- Chapter 4: problems 5,8 and 14.
- Chapter 5: problem 2. We will discuss this next week.
Week 4 (11 Feb 08)
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- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 4: problem 4. This is a 2 week assignment.
We will discuss what you found in class in 2 weeks.
- Chapter 4: problems 16 and 17.
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.
Week 3 (4 Feb 08)
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- Being an expert learner
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 5 and 6.
Week 2 (28 Jan 08)
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- Getting a good start
- Readings
- Section 1.5
- Sections 3.1 to 3.4
- Assignment
- Chapter 1: problems 6, 11 and 15.
- Chapter 3: problem 4. For this problem,
we will discuss them in class next week.
Week 1 (14 Jan 08)
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- Introductions
- Readings
- Chapter 1 Sections 1.1 to 1.4
- Assignment
NOTE:
The assignments posted here should be completed by the next class meeting.
- Aquire the textbook
- Chapter 1: problems 3,4 and 5.