ENGINEERING 493
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION FIELD EXPERIENCE
Syllabus

Spring 2016

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

Naomi Arincorayan
Co-op Counselor
Manoa Career Center
Email: naomia@hawaii.edu

Brent Fujinaka
Co-op Counselor
Manoa Career Center
Email: bfujinak@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 2016 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 2016, 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 community 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 Clog feature within Laulima (a new tool). Submit your blogs, which you may make open to all or only accessible by me and your Co-op counselor, Naomi Arincorayan or Brent Fujinaka. 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:
    1. Your employer where you are doing your Co-op,
    2. your immediate supervisor's name, title and contact information,
    3. the number of hours you work per week,
    4. your Co-op counselor.

  2. Attend and give a mini presentation (10-15 minutes) at the Engineering Field Experience Student Presentations . (See the link for presentation contents and suggestions) Due to the number of participants this semester, we should be able to do the presentations in one session, scheduled for Thursday, 27 Apr. at 1:30-4:30 pm in POST 214. If you cannot make this time, please let me know right away.
  3. Complete the student evaluation and schedule update at the end of the semester. Student Evaluations will be sent to you via email from the Manoa Career Center.

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 Clog. 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 missing the presentation may result in an NC for the course.