Project 0
Engineering
Fields
|
Engineering fields |
Team
|
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Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering |
1 |
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Biomedical Engineering |
2 |
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Chemical Engineering |
3 |
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Civil Engineering |
4 |
|
Computer Engineering |
5 |
|
Electrical Engineering |
6 |
|
Geological/Geophysical Engineering |
7 or 1 |
|
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering |
8 or 2 |
|
Material Science Engineering |
9 or 3 |
|
Mechanical Engineering |
10 or 4 |
|
Naval and Marine Engineering |
11 or 5 |
|
Nuclear Engineering |
12 or 6 |
|
Petroleum Engineering |
13 |
In this project your team
is assigned an engineering field, work in teams to find out as much as you can
about it, then make that knowledge available to the class in a five minute
presentation (in person for part I, via a video clip in part II). The time
limit of five minutes for these presentations must be strictly observed with
a chronometer, since the projects will be disqualified (no credit assigned)
if the team runs more than one minute over time. No change of field is allowed.
Experience indicates that preparation time will be short if you wait until
after the due date for Part I to work on Part II.
Part
1 –Find resources on the Internet, library, personal interviews, make a five-minute
presentation on the assigned engineering field. Check the e-syllabus for due
date.
Each
team is required to make a five-minute presentation to the class on the due
date on the engineering field you are assigned. The content presentation will
be graded based on the following criteria: 1) How well can you convince the
audience of the importance of the field 2) details about the field: how would a
day at work look like 3) how to prepare for it 4) other information you think
of interest to the audience 5) how clearly the information is spoken or shown. It
should run like a TV commercial: very well planned and designed to make your
points very clearly and attractively using all the tools and technologies you
can imagine. These include: the team members (one member’s monologue is much
boring than all members working and adding things as planned to catch the class
attention); the computer projector connected to the Internet; and any other
audiovisual equipments you, as a student, can check out from the University
Media Centers to use on campus (reservations are essential since they may not
be available on the date you need). Your presentation will be examined in
details and graded; peer evaluation by your classmates is also planned. So this
is a project in its own right in which you need to search and brainstorm for
ideas to include (info on the chosen Engineering field), for ways to surf the
web for relevant and cool info, for ways to attract the public attention, for
ways to convey the ideas clearly and attractively in a period of five-minute.
After the team makes the start signal, the presentation will be timed with a chronometer, the team will have to stop after five minutes
(no credit if six or more minutes were used), so plan ahead and rehearse it
carefully. You’ll see how many things you’ll learn by doing this project.
Part
2 –Producing a five-minute video clips on a
proposed project an engineer in your field can do to improve our campus. Check
the e-syllabus for the due date for Part II, usually the next class after the
due date for Part I.
Video cameras can be checked out from the Media Centers for use on campus. As with any big filmmaker before you film you’ll have to brainstorm and produce and improve a script that can convey the idea in an attractive way in the given time frame. Very careful thinking and planning are required, especially when you cannot use any film editing tools (you are not allowed to use them). You will be showing the video clips in class on the due date. This video presentation will also have to stop after five minutes (disqualification if it runs for 6 or more minutes). It will be watched in detail and graded. Same criteria apply as in Part 1 with an added grade for proposal originality and adequacy with your engineering field. We will be using the Media Center video projector (VHS format)*. Turn in the tape after your presentation. Before you start this project (Part II), think why video presentations, what would make a difference with direct oral presentations as in Part II.
*Check the needed equipments before the presentation (e.g. if you use 8mm or mini DV tapes, bring your own camera with video/audio cables to connect to this projector).
For this project each student is required to turn in an individual report –click to submit file (one-page on Part I; one-page on Part II, i.e. two pages in total) telling about the things you found or learned, how you got it, what obstacles you had to overcome and problems you had to solve in working with your team to prepare and deliver the oral and video presentations. Check the e-syllabus for due date. (To see how strict are the due dates, click here for Policies, Late Penalties, and Grades). In addition, the team leader is required to turn in a team report –click to submit file, on the different things the team has learned on the different engineering fields as presented by the other teams in their oral and video presentations. The team report should include a summary report based on the evaluation sheets, to be attached to the report, as filled in by the team members (the blank evaluation sheets will be available from the course website) on the contents and presentations of the other teams. To prepare these reports, follow tips of good writing practice. The individual report will be graded based on the following points: 1) clarity of ideas about what you did and learned in this project regarding engineering field 2) clarity of description about one or more problems you had to solve and how you solved them in doing this project. The team report will be graded based on: 1) details of information obtained from other teams’ presentations and videos clips 2) objective critiques on their presentations
Some links:
Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering , BME at U. Texas-Austin, International Society of Biomechanics
Computer Engineering, Computer.org
Geological/Geophysical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Material Science & Engineering
Petroleum Engineering Women in Petroleum Engineering
Also check appropriate links in Discover Engineering