Project 0
Engineering
Fields
|
Engineering fields |
Team
|
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Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering |
1 |
|
Biomedical Engineering |
2 |
|
Chemical Engineering |
3 |
|
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, please 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 for each of the two parts.
The time limit of five minutes for these presentations must be strictly
observed with a chronometer, grades for project performance will be
affected if the team runs more than one minute over time. No change of field
between Part I and Part II will be allowed. Experience indicates that
preparation time will be short if you wait until after the due date for Part I
to start working on Part II.
Part 1 –Find resources on the Internet, library, personal
interviews, your own knowledge and experiences, etc., put together and deliver
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 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 available in our classroom; 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, 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 short period
of time. After the team makes the start signal, the presentation will be timed
with a chronometer; the team will have to stop sharply at six minutes (no
credit if six or more minutes were used). Please plan ahead and rehearse it
carefully. Let us see how many conclusions you can extract after doing this
project, by writing them down in your Engin 103
logbook and also by submitting the reports.
Part 2 –Present a typical
project engineers in your field would perform, discuss in details and be
prepared to answer questions.
Details should include a
clear definition of the objectives of the project; timeline; how many man-hours
would be needed; estimated costs; and other details about that particular
project. Again a maximum of 5 minutes will be allowed for each presentation.
The presentation will be graded based on: 1)
How relevant is the project described to the assigned engineering field 2) details
that are presented 3)how many questions you got
following the presentation.
For
this Project 0 each student is required to turn in an individual report
(one-page on Part I; one-page on Part II, i.e. at least two pages in total)
telling about conclusions you could extract after doing Part I and Part II, for
example, 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 dates. (click here for Policies,
Late Penalties, and Grades). In addition, the team leader is
required to turn in a team report, about what the team has learned from the
other teams’ Part I and Part II 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