ENGR 111 – FALL 2015 FOUNDATIONS OF ENGINEERING I INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION: [Individual Instructor fills in contact information here] COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course introduces you to the engineering professions through multidisciplinary, societally relevant content. You will learn how to develop approaches for comprehending engineering systems and generating and exploring creative ideas and alternatives. You will be introduced to engineering fundamentals, problem solving methodologies, creativity and innovation. You will learn, through experience, the process of design and analysis in engineering including how to work effectively on a team. Finally, you will develop skills in oral communication, logical thinking, and usage of modern engineering tools such as LabVIEW and MATLAB. Successful completion of this course will enable you to: 1. Describe the engineering disciplines at Texas A&M and the interrelationships among them as well as know what graduates of at least three disciplines of engineering do; 2. Individually, or as a member of a technical team, understand and apply a structured engineering problem solving using a design process. 3. Develop algorithmic thinking by implementing simple algorithmic forms of engineering models/problems using MATLAB. 4. Communicate technical information via written, oral, and visual communication tools. 5. Recognize the advantages and challenges of problem solving using a team. COURSE EXPECTATIONS: You are expected to: • Always use your @tamu.edu e-mail account to send correspondence between yourself and the teaching team. • Learn how to use your eCampus account (http://ecampus.tamu.edu/) to access course information, assignments and your grades. • Be an active problem solver, contributor, and discussant in class. • Be prepared and accountable for class by reading the assigned material ahead of time and be able to answer simple questions over said material. • Be held accountable for the material that is, or is not, explicitly discussed in class. • Have a public presence in the class. • Attend class as a community expectation. • Be cooperative with your team and work with them, not compete against them. • Learn interdependently and complete assignments with your team and your peers. • Learn to be accountable to your team and have your team accountable to you. • Rely on and trust, your peers, as well as the faculty and staff to help you learn the course material. COURSE PREREQUISITES: Co-requisite: MATH 150, or higher numbered MATH course COURSE GRADING: Exams (2) + 30% Daily Assessments (RAT, CFU, HW, etc.): 34% ENGR 111 – Syllabus.v5, Fall 2015 1Project: Subtask 1 2.5% Subtask 2 5% Design Notebook 5% Demo 7.5% Presentation 5% Report 5% Attend one (1) “Industry Seminar” ++ and submit three (3) short essays on department videos +++ 6% + Administered in Class 100% ++ The Student Engineering Council (SEC) sponsors the “SEC Industry Seminars (SEC-ISs).” These are informational events featuring different companies that hire engineering graduates. You are REQUIRED to attend one (1) SEC-IS. Advanced registration for a seminar is required for attendance to count. Failure to attend a seminar for which you are registered will jeopardize your ability to complete this requirement. For each seminar you attend you should be prepared to write a 1 page (less than 250 words) summary of the presentation and how it affects your perceptions of engineering. +++ The 13 academic departments in the College of Engineering have produced short videos that describe their field of engineering, what types of work engineers in their field do, and the paths to a successful career in their field. You will be shown all the videos in the first 9 weeks of the term, in an order and at times determined by your individual instructor. You are REQUIRED to submit essays (~250 words each) on three (3) of these video presentations by the end of the 10th week of classes. This course will make extensive use of student teams. As such, homework, activities, ready assessment tests (RAT’s), activity check for understanding’s (CFU’s), and project grades may reflect some combination, in part or as a whole, your individual effort and teamwork. Exam grades will, in their entirety, represent your individual understanding of the course material. In general, your final course grade will consist of approximately 70% of your own individual contributions. You are reminded that learning team accountability (your accountability to the team and the team's accountability to you) is an essential element of this course. As such, the course instructor reserves the right to use: materials submitted by your team to reflect your individual effort (in the form of a grade); materials submitted by individuals to reflect your team's effort (in the form of a grade); materials randomly collected by individuals to reflect your team's effort (in the form of a grade); the weakest material submitted by individuals to reflect your team's effort (in the form of a grade); or materials submitted by pairs of team members to reflect your individual or team effort (in the form of a grade). This list is not intended to be completely exclusive, but representative of the possible options. The following grading scale will be used to determine your semester course grade: 90% ≤ A < 100%, 80% ≤ B < 90%, 70% ≤ C< 80%, 60% ≤ D < 70%, and F <60% COURSE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK / BOOK CHAPTERS: The course has one required textbook: 1. Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach, 3rd ed., ENGR 111 – Syllabus.v5, Fall 2015 2Authors: Elizabeth Stephan, David Bowman, William Park, Benjamin Sill, and Matthew Ohland Publisher: Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0133808483 Important! – This book can be purchased either as a package consisting of a hardcopy book with an electronic access code to the ebook, or as an electronic access code alone. Do not buy both the book-code package and also code-only package – this is one code too many! You can purchase the book and code or code alone at the campus bookstore. You can purchase the code alone through the course website. It is not recommended to purchase a book and code package from other retailers, since their codes will not give you proper access to the publisher’s online materials. OTHER REFERENCE MATERIALS: 1. MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications (recommended but not
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