EGN-1002 - Introduction
By Wilmer Arellano
Overview
• Syllabus
• Attrition
• Introduce Yourself
Contact Information
• Instructor:
– arellano@fiu.edu
• Teaching Assistant
– Sadegh Mehdi Aghaei smehd002@fiu.edu
• Course Web Site
– Web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano
Syllabus
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EGN 1002 Engineering Orientation
Spring 20135
Instructor: Wilmer Arellano
Office: EC 3834
Office Phone: X-74905 (during office hours only) (305-348-4905)
Office Hours: T, TR: 9:45 AM- 11:00 AM(by appointment)
Classroom: EC 1104
Class Schedule: T, TR: 11:00 – 12:20 PM
Course Website: web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano
Email: arellano@fiu.edu
Department Phone: (305) 348-2807
Syllabus
• Text Book: Not Required
• References:
• Philip Kosky, George Wise, Robert Balmer, William
Keat. (2010). Elsevier. Exploring Engineering.
(Second Edition) ISBN: 978-0-12-374723-5
• Kirk D. Hagen. (2009). Prentice Hall. Introduction to
Engineering Analysis (Third Edition). eText ISBN-10:
0-13-208484-8 Print ISBN-10: 0-13-601772-X
• William C. Oakes, Les L. Leone and Craig J. (2006).
Gunn. Engineering your Future (5th Edition).
Michigan: Great Lakes Press, Inc./ Sheridan Books,
Inc. ISBN 978-1-881018-86-5
Syllabus
• Course Objectives:
• After completing this course, students are
expected to have learned the following:
1. The specialization areas and professional organizations for
engineers
2. How an engineer plans and completes a project
3. Basic computer tools used by engineers
4. How to write a technical report
5. How to prepare and give an effective oral presentation
6. How to work effectively within a team
7. Professional Ethics
8. Importance of Lifelong learning
Syllabus
Grading Policy
Lab Reports and Classwork. This includes robot building, and
brainstorming sessions.
20%
Robotic Project
35%
Fully Functional Robot
15%
Written Report
10%
Video Report
10%
Engineering Disciplines Report
15%
Engineering Disciplines Presentation
15%
Final Exam
15%
Total
100%
Grading Scale
A
95-100
B+
86-89
C+
76-79
D+
66-69
A-
90-94
B
83-85
C
73-75
D
63-65
B-
80-82
C-
70-72
D-
60-62
F
All assignments are due at the beginning of class. The following deductions apply.
15 Minutes to end of class
After class to 1 day
2 days
3 or more days
10 %
50 %
75 %
100 %
0-59
Missing Test Policy:
Syllabus
1. Make-up tests will be given only with official written confirmation of reasons.
2. Inform Instructor about the problem to make special arrangements by next class. You
may inform instructor about your problem by:
a. Sending an email to arellano@fiu.edu
b. Leaving a message at 305-348-4905
c. In Person
d. By means of a messenger
Failing to follow notification guidelines will make you non eligible for a make-up exam.
All excuses must be submitted in original and include contact .
3. Make-up test will be comprehensive
Homework Policy:
1. See table
Exam Policy:
1. Cheating in an examination will result in "F" in the course.
Departmental Incomplete Policy:
To qualify for an INCOMPLETE, a student:
1. Must contact (e.g., phone, e-mail, etc.) the instructor or secretary before or during missed portion of class.
2. Must be passing the course prior to that part of the course that is not completed.
3. Must have documented circumstances beyond his/her control.
4. Must make up the incomplete work through the instructor of the course.
5. Must see the Instructor. All missed work must be finished before last two weeks of the following term.
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Activity
Introduction. Assignment 1 (introduce yourself).
Students Introductions/Team Formation. Writing your Resume. Lecture available online.
Lost on the Moon (Exercise on team brainstorming). Students research on teams prior to excersise.
Successful Projects. Lecture and Excersise
Circuits.
Circuits.
Field Experience on Solar Cells and Stirling engines
Robotic Project.Hardware and Mechanical Assembly
Robotic Project.Hardware and Mechanical Assembly
Scratch. Lecture
Scratch.
Microcontrollers.
Microcontrollers. Practice
Robotic Project. Lecture and hands on several sessions
Robotic Project. Lecture and hands on several sessions
Robotic Project. Lecture and hands on several sessions
Robotic Project. Lecture and hands on several sessions
Robotic Project. Lecture and hands on several sessions
Robotic project demonstration, video and short report. Does not take class time
Strategy, project planing.
Writing Style.
Engineering Economics \ Cost of losing one semester. Estimating the cost of losing one semester including lost salaries
and interest.
Ethics.
The Power of Persuasion, students association
Body Language / Oral Presentation.
Vehicles. Vehicles as an example for sustainability
Report on the Engineering Disciplines /Students Presentations usually (4 team per day) Takes 1 week.
Report on the Engineering Disciplines /Students Presentations usually (4 team per day) Takes 1 week.
Exam
Tentative
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Lecture
Individual
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Presentations
Presentations
Hardware Project
The Client’s Need
Verbally presented at class time.
Video Samples
Video 1
Video 2
Spring 2015
Introduce Yourself
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Hand in a hard copy of your assignment at the
beginning of your EGN-1002 class on the
indicated day.
You need to have your document printed when
you come to class.
Do not plan on coming late to class and or using
class-time to finish up your assignments.
Your Assignment
Your task for this assignment is to write about
yourself:
You need to write a 600-650-word essay and a
Resume for a job position in a research lab of a
certain company (The Class).
Your Assignment
Please do not provide actual contact
information
– Create fake address, e-mail, telephone numbers.
Etc.
Except for contact information, details provided
must be true and accurate.
Expectations
The employer will be looking for relevant
information about your recent pre-college
achievements, activities, and experiences and
for relevant information about your
achievements, activities and experiences at
FIU.
Support
The employer will be looking for some
statements of your character (hard worker,
excellent team member, leader, software
expert)
Claims about your character must be supported
by details of your achievements, activities and
experiences both as a high school and
engineering student.
Motivations
The employer will be looking for what reasons
motivated you to become an engineer:
Family related,
Designing objects always interested you,
You know an engineer who motivated you
Engineering Challenges Awareness
The employer will be looking for your position
about the greatest challenges that the
engineering disciplines must face in the near
future.
Select one topic and present your position. You
could use as a reference the link bellow. This
section should be at least half of the essay.
– http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenge
s.aspx
Outline
Resume
1. Prepare a resume similar to the “The Student/Entry-Level Resume”.
2. http://web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano/1002/Resume/Writing%20your%20Resume.pdf
Essay
1. Contact Information (do not provide actual contact information).
2. Relevant information about your recent pre-college achievements, activities, and
experiences and your achievements, activities and experiences at FIU.
3. Statements of your character supported by details of your achievements.
4. The employer will be looking for what reasons motivated you to become an
engineer.
5. How you plan to engage in one of the greatest engineering challenges in the near
future.
Presentation
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You have 90 seconds to talk about points 2 – 4 of the Essay.
Attrition
• A factor, normally expressed as a
percentage, reflecting the degree of
losses of personnel or material due
to various causes within a specified
period of time.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/attrition+rate
Attrition. Study Hours.
• The typical engineering major today
spends 18.5 hours per week
studying. The typical social sciences
major, by contrast, spends about
14.6 hours.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/why-students-leave-the-engineering-track/?_r=0
Attrition. Grade Inflation.
• STEM fields (science, technology,
engineering, mathematics) have also
had less grade inflation than the
humanities and social sciences have
in the last several decades.
Attrition. Leaving the Field.
• Roughly fifty percent of the students
who begin in engineering leave the
field before receiving their
engineering degree.
• Typically half of this attrition occurs
during the first year.
Engineering Attrition: Student Characteristics and Educational Initiatives
Larry J. Shuman, Cheryl Delaney, Harvey Wolfe, and Alejandro Scalise
University of Pittsburgh
Mary Besterfield-Sacre
University of Texas – El Paso
Attrition. Causes.
• Its causes may vary widely from student to student
e.g.
– disinterest in the field of engineering,
– lack of fundamental preparation,
– lack of confidence to succeed.
Engineering Attrition: Student Characteristics and Educational Initiatives
Larry J. Shuman, Cheryl Delaney, Harvey Wolfe, and Alejandro Scalise
University of Pittsburgh
Mary Besterfield-Sacre
University of Texas – El Paso
• A recent study of 113 undergraduates who left
engineering in 2004, 2007, and 2008 points to three
key reasons:
– poor teaching and advising;
– the difficulty of the engineering curriculum;
– and a lack of “belonging” within engineering.
http://www.asee.org/retention-project/keeping-students-in-engineering-a-research-guide-to-improving-retention
ABET Defines Engineering as:
• The profession in which knowledge of the
– mathematical and
– natural sciences,
• gained by
– study,
– experience, and
– practice,
• is applied with judgment to develop ways to
use, economically, the materials and forces
of nature for the benefit of mankind.
Engineering at FIU
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School of Computing and Information Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Construction Management
Electrical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Materials Engineering
Review
• Syllabus
• Attrition
• Introduce Yourself
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Questions
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