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Engin 103: Introduction to Engineering |
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http:// www.faculty.umb.edu/tomas_materdey/103f06/ Office S-03-110 Phone: (617) 287-6435 |
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Bulletin Board Final
exam schedule on Dec. 21, 2006 Please check here for your updated
team and teammate information, along with computer and date assigned. For
example, if you are assigned a 18Tu, you will be the
main user of computer #18 on Tuesdays. Please check class notes from the
e-syllabus to see other items due before the next class. As indicated, perfect attendance is
expected, you may loose your spot in a team if you miss a class. Course TA: Praveen Nittala
(praveen.nittala@umb.edu) Access class notes by clicking on the
corresponding date under E-Syllabus To open lecture notes: download free Adobe Reader |
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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 |
Engin 103 Logbook (a
learning journal) is emphasized as an important design and learning tool: in
an active learning approach, students are presented with activities (which
include classwork and teamwork), 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 (with 7.0) or
0-13-188054-3 (with 7.1) 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
class notes and 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 *All class absence needs to be
justified. |
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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 |
See bulletin above |
