ENGINEERING 493
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION FIELD EXPERIENCE
Syllabus

Spring 2010

Tep Dobry
Director of Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
Phone: 956-8404
Email: tep@hawaii.edu

Iris Takushi
Email: takushi@hawaii.edu

Naomi Arincorayan
Email: naomia@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 2010 you must fulfill the requirements below. You must meet ALL course requirements to be eligible to continue participation in the Co-op Program for Fall 2010, or to receive your Co-op certificate of successful completion, if graduating this Spring. We will be using tools on Laulima to coordinate and build a cummunity of Co-op students and staff. Most of your interaction in the course will take place at the Laulima 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 Laulima by clicking here. Use your hawaii.edu login ID and password to login.

Course requirements

  1. Submit Journal Blogs (See the link for journal contents and suggested format) using the Blogger feature within Laulima. Submit your blogs, which are only accessible by me and your Co-op counselor, Iris Takushi or Naomi Arincorayan, and we will comment on your entries in the blog tool. At a minimum (though you may blog more often if you wish), you should submit a blog entry:

    For your first 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.

  2. Attend and give a mini presentation (10-15 minutes) at the Engineering Field Experience Student Presentations . The presentations are tentatively scheduled for Monday, 26 Apr. from 4:30 to 6:30 PM (location TBD) If you cannot make this time, please let me know right away.
  3. Post to the discussion topics under the Forums in Laulima. We will post discussion topics several times over the semester under the "Forums" on the Laulima 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.
  4. Complete the student evaluation and schedule update at the end of the semester.
  5. 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 May 2010. I would suggest you not wait until the last month of the semester to look into attending a meeting.
  6. You are responsible for email we send you to your hawaii.edu address. You should check this email at least weekly. We will reply to your journals within the Blogger. Of course, you may also correspond with us through our hawaii.edu addresses given above, but please submit your journals through Laulima.

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.