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Engin 103: Introduction to Engineering |
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http://
www.faculty.umb.edu/tomas_materdey/103s05/ Office S-03-110 Phone: (617) 287-6435 |
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Bulletin Board Course TA: Murali Charya Palmoor (charya_umass@yahoo.com) Murali’s office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays To open lecture notes:
download free Adobe Reader Past Announcements Computer
files are required for all assignments,
including project reports (for project reports, a paper copy with signatures
and receipts is also required). These files and their “zipped” files should
be named correctly, e.g. hw2_lastname; pr1_teamX (progress report); p1_team
(project report); etc. You need to notify the instructor immediately
when there is a difficulty in submitting files, a
few-day-late submission due to server problem will not be accepted. |
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Objectives |
In this Natural Science Distribution
course you will find, by doing it, answers to questions like what is
engineering versus science? What is engineering
design? What are the engineering design tools? What is teamwork? What is the
role of the computer? How to keep an engineer logbook? How to write a project documentation? How to maintain a web page? What
are the techniques for effective communication? |
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Learning Activities |
Logbook (a learning journal) is emphasized as an important design and learning
tool: in an active learning approach, students are presented with activities,
after completing these, they are encouraged to
extract their own conclusions about the different activities and their
interconnections. Guidance is available to extract the right conclusions.
These conclusions should be kept in the logbook as their body of knowledge on
engineering and its tools is evolving along the course. There will be
no traditional lectures but class attendance is required. Regular
out-of-class team meetings, either in person, on-line, or by phone, are
needed to work on the projects. Project “competitions” will be scheduled
every month. Project reports are due the next class after these competitions.
Individual engineer logbook is required for each student as well as a final,
very short, oral exam. Students will turn in class works at the end of each
class that will count towards their grades. Weekly homework will be assigned
and will be due the following week. |
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Textbooks
and required materials |
Design
Concepts for Engineers 3nd Ed. Mark
N. Horenstein Prentice-Hall,
2002 ISBN
0-13-146499-X Table of Contents LabView 7.0 Student Edition with CD-ROM National Instruments, Inc. Prentice-Hall, 2003 ISBN 0-13-123926-0 Required materials: a letter-size quadrille notebook,
a CDRW or other form of large
storage media *These materials are
available in the campus bookstore |
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Handouts |
No handouts will be made generally. All
course materials (including homework, class-works, and projects assignments)
are electronically available from this web site. The student should print out
and take a copy of these assignments before leaving the class. Links to all
assignments can be found from the e-syllabus. |
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Assessments |
A project is mature when it has evolved through different improved versions
via a lot of decision making processes in which each team member has
contributed actively. One should be able to tell that one didn’t think about
it, or that one thought it wouldn’t have happened one, two, or three weeks
ago, because of the energy and hard works brought in by each team member
since then. The grade distribution will be class- and home-works 20%
(individually), projects 60% (by teams), and logbook and final exam 20%
(individually). |
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Rules |
Course policies, late penalties, and grades* What you should know about projects *Students who miss three or more
class-works will need to discuss their status with the instructor. |
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Meeting |
The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays
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Office
hours |
Tuesdays and Thursdays, |
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TA
information |
Information on TA such as office
hours and location will be announced. |
