Welcome to Engineering 100
Engineering Freshman Seminar
(or "How to Succeed in Engineering")
Spring 2010
Course Information
- Instructor
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- Tep Dobry Holmes 250 or 443, tep@hawaii.edu
- Meetings
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- Monday, 1:30-3:00, POST 214
(tentative)
- 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/S10
Course Objectives
The objectives of Engr 100 are as follows:
- Provide academic support for all students in science and engineering
gateway courses such as Math 140, Math 241, Math 242,
Chem 161, Chem 162 and Phys 170
- Provide an understanding of the study of engineering and what
it takes to succeed as a student.
- Provide and understanding of the engineering professions and its
impact in Hawai`i and society at large.
- Develop opportunities for students to pursue the resources available
through mentorships, internships, and scholarships.
- Increase academic community.
Course Procedures and Policies
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The purpose of this course is to introduce you to engineering,
inform you about the engineering process and the different disciplines,
motivate you to work hard and give you some tools to help you
succeed.
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The course is 1 credit with the Cr/NC grading option. As a Rule of Thumb,
earning a Cr is equivalent to at least a C in a course. Your grade will
be determined primarily by your attendance class sessions,
participation in class activities,
and completion of weekly reading and assignments.
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Weekly readings and several questions from the text will be assigned
below. You should do the reading BEFORE the class meeting each week.
Answers to assigned questions may be written up in a .doc file, .pdf file,
or in plain ole text in the assignment itself.
You will submit your assignments on Laulima
(login at http://laulima.hawaii.edu)
using the Assignments tool. There you will be able to write your repsonses
or upload your file.
Please name your files for the week of the assignment
(e.g. your first assignment will be named week1.doc or week1.pdf).
These files will NOT be posted to the rest of the class, but will be reviewed
by the instructor before class.
Your files are due to be submitted by midnight on the SUNDAY before the
class session (to give me a change to review them before class).
I suggest that you keep a copy of the files you submit in a folder for
this class on your computer (or flash drive) for your record.
Grading Rubric
Your grade (Cr/NC) in this class will be determined by your
attendence and participation in class (50%),
and completion of the assignments (50%).
I will use the following rubrics to score your work each week:
- Participation:
- Good (1 Point):
- Present and participates in the class session.
- Bad (0 Points):
- Absent or non-participating in class activities.
- Assignments:
- Excellent (3 Points):
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- Well written and complete responses to all assigned questions.
- Includes a statement of the problem/question.
- Follows the assignment specification: submitted on-time, in the correct
place, file named as specified.
- Good (2 Points):
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- Makes a good effort to answer all problems/questions with complete
sentences and paragraphs.
- Missing a statement of the problem/question.
- Assignemt not submitted in the correct place,
or not named as specified.
- Just Okay (1 Point):
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- Some effort to answer most, if not all problems/questions.
- Missing a statement of the problem/question.
- Answers are terse statements that get the idea of reply.
- Late.
- Bad (0 Points):
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