Welcome to Engineering 100
Engineering Freshman Seminar
(or "How to Succeed in Engineering")
Spring 2009
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 12 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/S09
- 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 (4 May 09)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 13 (27 Apr 09)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 12 (20 Apr 09)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Week 11 (13 Apr 09)
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- Activities
- Your new product presentations
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 6 problems 3 and 5.
- Week 10 (6 Apr 09)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Work on your product design. Be prepared to present your
design next week in class.
- Week 9 (30 Mar 09)
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- Activities
- Readings
- Assignment
- Work on your product design. Be prepared to discuss your
design next week in class.
- Week 8 (16 Mar 09)
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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?
- Enjoy Spring Break
- Week 7 (9 Mar 09)
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- Activities
- Weekly Schedule: how did it go?
- The Engineering process
- Readings
- Sections 5.4 and 2.1 to 2.3
- Assignment
- Chapter 5: problems 8 and 9.
- Chapter 2: problem 1 and 6. We will discuss your ideas for products
after Spring Break.
- Make sure you have access to your wiliki account by next week.
You can pick up or change the password by going the Holmes 250.
- I will be showing a video next week and discuss it afterwards,
so the class will likely run the full 90 minutes.
- Week 6 (2 Mar 09)
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- Activities
- What did you find at Career Day?
- More Support Center presentations
- Reading for Comprehension: how did it go?
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 5: problems 3, 5 and 10. We will discuss these next week.
- Week 5 (23 Feb 09)
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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 8 and 14. Write up what you found in your journal entry.
- Chapter 5: problem 2. We will discuss this next week.
- Go to Career Day
on Wednesday, 25 Feb 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.
Write a paragraph on each company you talked to and
come prepared to discuss what you found (and bring any trinkets
you collected) next week in class.
In addition, you may want to try to attend one or more of the
Info Sessions this week or next.
- Week 4 (9 Feb 09)
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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 (2 Feb 09)
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- Being an expert learner
- Readings
- Assignment
- Chapter 3: problems 5 and 6.
- Week 2 (26 Jan 09)
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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 (12 Jan 09)
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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.