ENGINEERING 493
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION FIELD EXPERIENCE
Syllabus
Fall 2006
Tep Dobry
Director of Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
Phone: 956-8404
Email: tep@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
The Cooperative Education Engineering Field Experience Course (ENGR 493)
provides formal recognition for your field experience on your official
transcript. It also provides Cooperative Education students with a formal
vehicle to report their work experience to the Cooperative Education Office
and the College of Engineering. The course is repeatable, carried for one
credit, and graded as credit/no credit. To receive credit for
this course for Fall 2005 you must fulfill the requirements below.
You must meet ALL course requirements to be eligible to continue participation
in the Co-op Program for Spring 2007, or to receive your Co-op certificate
of successful completion, if graduating this Fall.
Course requirements
- Submit Journal entries (See the link for
journal contents and suggested format) by email to me
(tep@eng.hawaii.edu) with a cc to your Co-op counselor
(Arleen Fujimoto-Ikuma (afi@hawaii.edu),
Wendy Sora (wendytak@hawaii.edu),
or Iris Takushi (takushi@hawaii.edu)
at the following times:
- Weekly for those in Engr 493 for the
first semester.
Weekly journal entries are due
every Friday beginning no later than 1 Sep, and
every week after that until 1 Dec 2006.
- Monthly for those in Engr 493 for the
second semester.
Monthly journal entries are due on the first Friday of each month from Sep
to Dec 2006.
For your first journal submittal, please include the following information:
- Your employer where you are doing your Co-op,
- your immediate supervisor's name, title and contact information,
- the number of hours you work per week,
- whether you think you should be submitting weekly or monthly journals,
- your Co-op counselor who you will cc on your journals.
- Attend and give a mini presentation (10-15 minutes)
at the Engineering Field Experience Student
Presentations.
The presentations are scheduled for
Tuesday, 14 Nov. from 5:00-7:00 pm.
in POST 214.
- Attend one meeting of the professional engineering society
appropriate to your discipline (NOT the student branch). The
Hawai`i Council of Engineering
Societies (HCES) monthly publication,
"Wiliki o Hawaii", lists the societies with chapters in Hawai`i with
contact and upcoming meeting information.
Wiliki is now published electroncially at the HCES web site.
Write a one page paper describing the meeting you attended, including
the topic(s) discussed and what you learned from the meeting.
Regular attendance at these meetings is a good opportunity to
meet practicing engineers in your discipline. You paper is due
no later than 8 Dec 2006. I would suggest you not wait until the
last month of the semester to look into attending your meeting.
- Complete the student evaluation and schedule update at the end of the semester.
Due 8 Dec 2006.
- You are responsible for email I may send you to your
hawaii.edu account. You should check this
email at least weekly, or forward it to an address where you
do check your email.
Missing more than one, on-time, journal entry, or the paper or presentation
will result in an NC for the course.