ENGINEERING 493
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION FIELD EXPERIENCE
Syllabus

Spring 2007

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 Spring 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 Summer or Fall 2007, or to receive your Co-op certificate of successful completion, if graduating this Spring.

Course requirements

  1. 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:

    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.

  2. Attend and give a mini presentation (10-15 minutes) at the Engineering Field Experience Student Presentations. The presentations are scheduled for TBD.
  3. 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 4 May 2007. I would suggest you not wait until the last month of the semester to look into attending your meeting.
  4. Complete the student evaluation and schedule update at the end of the semester. Due 4 May 2007.
  5. 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 may result in an NC for the course.