SKILL SESSIONS IN EPICS
Date
9/12/2013
9/26/2013
1/16/2013
Title
PowerPoint
and
Presentation
skills
How to Win
Friends and
Influence
People
Plan with
Microsoft
Project
1/17/2013
Navigating
Sharepoint
2/13/2013
Say What?
Powerpoint
presentation
Inclusive
Design
Excel basics
Summer
2013
9/3/2013
9/5/2013
Basic Tools in
EPICS Lab
Developed and instructed by: Antonette Cummings
Description
Learn to assemble a presentation that tells your
story as you talk about it and continues to tell your
story in print. Obtain some quick coaching on your
oral presentation skills.
Based on Dale Carnegie's popular book, we will
learn and practice the techniques that are offered
in the book. This will be helpful when coordinating
in your team and with your project partner.
Is your team asked weekly what the plan is? Do
you find your team is always behind? Not sure
what a Gantt chart is? Learn the basics of the
software. Helps team leaders group and sort tasks
in the design process, allows persons to be
assigned to tasks, projects expected finish date,
includes milestones.
Especially for new students. Learn document
management with Sharepoint, shared drive, other
online resources. For every time you've heard "it's
on sharepoint".
Getting ready for design review! Organize and
create a great written presentation and practice
oral communication.
Lecture for Inclusive Design as complementary to
human-centered design
For the novice or first time user. Learn to write
equations, draw plots and graphs. It's actually way
cooler than it sounds.
Learn to use available EPICS tools: Circular saw,
drill press, dremel. Learn some basic woodworking
construction techniques. Wear closed toe shoes to
this skill session.
Attendance Supporting Materials and Student Feedback
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Handout slides
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Activity (for instructor to read aloud to students)
SKILL SESSIONS IN EPICS
Developed and instructed by: Antonette Cummings
9/19/2013 Basic
Learn to use available EPICS tools: Circular saw,
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Woodworking drill press, jigsaw. Learn some basic woodworking
Tools
construction techniques. Wear closed toe shoes to
this skill session.
1/23/2014 Woodworking Learn to use woodworking tools available in EPICS
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Tools
lab: circular saw, drill press, jigsaw. MUST wear
closed toe shoes.
1/29/2014 Woodworking Learn to use woodworking tools available in EPICS
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lab: circular saw, drill press, jigsaw. MUST wear
closed toe shoes.
3/5/2014
4/2/2014
4/16/2014
Woodworking Learn to use tools available in EPICS build lab: drill,
Tools
circular saw, jigsaw. MUST wear closed toe shoes.
(This is a repeat of previous skill sessions.)
Woodworking Back by popular demand! Learn to use tools
Tools
available in EPICS lab: circular saw, jigsaw, drill
press. MUST wear closed toe shoes to lab.
Accident Case The AOPA will present an interactive session on
Study
how an aircraft incident was investigated. This kind
of thinking is important when you consider
possible failures in how your users use your
project. This may be related to how your team
writes a Design Failure Modes Effects Analysis
(DFMEA).
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My further email to the students who attended:
Hope you liked the content of the seminar. If it did not seem
to relate to your EPICS project, please allow me to show you
some key points from each case presented: 1) someone may
add on to your design without testing it for its effects on the
whole design 2) someone may ignore a maintenance issue or
"work around" the issue for a very long time 3) someone may
be very confident to use a design for a purpose that it was
not designed for. For your benefit, please consider writing a
reflection in your notebook about anticipating the above
numbered items as you make progress in your designs.