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Lectures -
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In-class lectures and activities (tentative) - MON 3pm SECTION ONLY
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- Week 1 (8/24/09):
- Lecture: introduction of the course, instructor, and coaches.
- In-class activity: interviews and presentation of students.
- Week 2 (8/31/09):
- Lecture: video - An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning
- In-class activity: N/A
- Homework #1: create (or update) your resume (due 9/14/09)
- Week 3 (9/7/09):
- Week 4 (9/14/09):
- Lecture: guest lecture - career services overview and writing effective resumes - Kristen Todd.
- In-class activity: project discussion/team formation
- Homework #2: write-up (1 page) project proposal and presentation (due 9/28/09)
- Week 5 (9/21/09):
- Lecture: guest lecture - technical writing and academic integrity - Steve Bucher.
- In-class activity: discussion.
- Homework #3: (a) revise your resume and (b) write a few sentences on what you learned about resume writing that you did not know before (due 10/26/09).
- Week 6 (9/28/09):
- Lecture: guest lecture on intellectual property, entrepreneurial activities - Alex Leshnick
- In-class activity: brief presentations (and discussion) of project proposals (part 1).
- Week 7 (10/5/09):
- Lecture: what is engineering and what do engineers do?
- In-class activity: brief presentations (and discussion) of project proposals (part 2).
- Week 8 (10/12/09):
- Lecture: guest lecture on engineering ethics - Marc Aubertin
- In-class activity: discussion.
- Week 9 (10/19/09):
- Lecture: N/A
- In-class activity: puzzle contest.
- Week 10 (10/26/09):
- Lecture: activity with coaches (surprise).
- In-class activity: N/A
- Week 11 (11/2/09):
- Lecture: discussion - graduate school, to go or not to go?
- In-class activity: time to work on project.
- Week 12 (11/9/09):
- Lecture: problem solving and computational thinking.
- In-class activity: time to work on project.
- Week 13 (11/16/09):
- Lecture: N/A.
- In-class activity: bridge building contest
- Week 14 (11/23/09):
- Lecture: N/A
- In-class activity: groups present projects (part 1).
- Week 15 (11/30/09):
- Lecture: N/A
- In-class activity: groups present projects (part 2).
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Additional information (homeworks, project, etc)
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- Project description:
(PDF)
- Project milestones:
- Project proposals:
written part (1-2 pages) due in class on 9/28/09;
brief presentations (10 min each) done in class on
9/28/09 (with continuation the following week
as needed).
- Final project presentation and report:
written report (5-7 page) due in class on 11/30/09;
presentations (20 min each)
done in class on 11/23/09 and 11/30/09.
- Things to cover in your project proposal:
- Team/Company Name
- Roles/responsibilities of all team members
- Product Name
- Main idea behind your product (what is it suppose to do,
you don't need to necessarily know how, at this point)
- How does your product address some aspect of sustainability
- What is your target market/product users
- Motivation for why some people might be interested in
buying/using your product
- Timeline (set of milestones that you've set for your team,
and who takens main responsibility for those milestones)
- Project final report outline:
(PDF) and
example (note that the
example is just a sample of an executive summary and
your reports are not intended to be exactly like this).
- Resume presentation:
(PDF)
- Material for ethics lecture:
An Ancient Dilemma,
Philosophical Ethics,
NSPE Code 2007 July,
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