ENGINEERING 493
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION FIELD EXPERIENCE
Syllabus
Fall 2007
Tep Dobry
Director of Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
Phone: 956-8404
Email: tep@hawaii.edu
Wendy Sora
Email: wendytak@hawaii.edu
Iris Takushi
Email: takushi@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 2007 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 or Summer 2008,
or to receive your Co-op certificate
of successful completion, if graduating this Fall.
NEW this semester!
We will be trying something different this semester; using
WebCT
to coordinate and build a cummunity of Co-op students and staff. Most of
your interaction in the course will take place at the
WebCT
site set up for Engr 493. By enrolling in the course, you have been added as
a member of the site. You can login to
WebCT
by
clicking here.
Use your hawaii.edu login ID and password to login.
Course requirements
-
Submit Journal Entries (See the link for
journal contents and suggested format) using the Mail feature within
WebCT. Send your journals
to me and to your Co-op counselor,
Wendy Sora
or Iris Takushi,
at the following times:
- Weekly for those who have not completed
one FULL semester or summer in Co-op.
Weekly journal entries are due
every Friday beginning no later than 7 Sep, and
every week after that until 7 Dec (13 journals).
- Monthly for those in Co-op for their
second FULL semester or summer.
Monthly journal entries are due on the first Friday of each month from Sep
to Dec 2007 (4 journals).
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
(we will let you know if we agree),
- your Co-op counselor to whom you will also send your journals.
- Attend and give a mini presentation (10-15 minutes)
at the Engineering Field Experience Student
Presentations.
Because there are so many of you this semester, we will be doing the
presentations in two sessions tentatively scheduled for
Tuesday, 13 Nov, and 20 Nov. from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in POST 214.
I will post a schedule of who will present in which session later.
If you cannot make one or the other of these, or if you have a
preference for a session, please let me know right away.
You are required to attend the entire session in which you
present, and are encouraged to attend both sessions.
- Post to the discussion topics on
WebCT.
We will post discussion topics about every other week under
"Discussions" on the WebCT site for the course. You are required
to make at least one posting providing your input/opinion/thoughts
for each topic posted, but we hope you find at least some of the topics
interesting and continue a discussion with the other members of the
course.
If you have an additional topic you would like to open a discussion about in
the class, let us know.
- Complete the student evaluation and schedule update at the end of the semester.
Due 7 Dec 2007.
- OPTIONAL this semester:
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.
Exercising your option to attend and write up
a professional meeting MAY compensate for one missed journal or
discussion posting for the semester.
If your choose this option, your paper is due
no later than 7 Dec 2007. I would suggest you not wait until the
last month of the semester to look into attending a meeting.
- You are responsible for email we send you in
WebCT.
You should check this email at least weekly.
We will reply to your journals within
WebCT.
Of course, you may also correspond with us through our hawaii.edu
addresses given above, but please submit your journals in
WebCT.
Missing more than one, on-time, journal entry, or posting
to the discussion topics,
or missing the presentation may result in an NC for the course.