Last Updated: 8/15/06
Beginning-of-Course
Memo
ENGR
162, INTRODUCTION
TO ENGINEERING, Fall ‘06, Workshop Sect. 14
Workshop:
3:30
p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in MEC 215.
(NOTICE: You must also register and fulfill all
requirements of the ENGR 162 Lab! )
Professor: R.
J. Ribando (office: MEC 310, e-mail: rjr@virginia.edu, phone: 924-6289)
Texts:
1.
Engineering Design, a
Project-based Introduction, 2nd
Edition, by Dym & Little, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2004, ISBN
0-471-25687-0.
2.
Spreadsheet Tools for
Engineers Using Excel, 3rd Ed.,
Byron Gottfried, McGraw Hill, 2007.
3.
ENGR 162 Package, Prentice Hall
ESource.
Recommended:
The New Way Things Work, David
Macaulay, Houghton-Mifflin.
(The
first one is predominately for the design workshop; the latter two are mostly
for the computer laboratory portion of the course. What you learn from those two books is
to be applied in this design workshop.
Catalog Description:
Integrates problem solving and design
practice. Encourages the
development of skills in using computer applications packages for web page
design, modeling and visualization, spreadsheets and a math solver. Applies
these skills to computer assignments and team design projects that feature
conceptual design, analytical design, and design and build activities. Topics include methodologies for
computation, problem solving, and design; linear regression; plotting
functions; matrix manipulation; modeling and visualization and engineering
optimization.
Course Goal:
To
introduce students to engineering design and the challenges and excitement of the
engineering profession; to develop written and oral communications skills; to
develop an appreciation and ability for teamwork, creativity and time/project
management; and to develop skills in using computer applications in engineering
design and analysis.
ABET and MAE Department
Objectives
Course
Outcomes:
At
the conclusion of the course students will be able to:
1.
Work in teams to define engineering problems,
develop specifications, perform information searches, apply concept selection
techniques and develop a final design.
2.
Present their analysis, development and
results in both oral and written form.
3.
Formulate problems for computational
solution and use computer applications for solving analytical problems, data
analysis and graphical presentation.
4.
Design, build and demonstrate/test an
engineering solution.
5. Address cost, safety, health
and ethical issues in one or more engineering designs.
Grading:
The course is driven by the computer assignments and design
projects, with course grades being based upon:
Computer Laboratory Assignments: 40%
Design Project 1: 16%
Design Project 2: 16%
Design Project 3 (incl oral, comp, rept) 20%
Misc.,
Quizzes, etc. 8%
I.T. Requirements:
Since we will be meeting in
one of the ITC classrooms (MEC 215, which has
had a computer upgrade since this VR tour) and will, when appropriate, be using
the computers, you must have an active Instructional
Toolkit account, Home Directory account (or other means to save work from
class) and an Eservices
account.
Honor
System:
Homework for the
"laboratory" part of this course is to be prepared as specifically
directed by the instructor, Mr. Cahen.
For the "workshop" part of the course (with Mr. Ribando), you
are required to collaborate with your assigned team only. This means no use of
old reports from fraternity/sorority files or elsewhere. When you turn in your
design projects, you will be required to sign a pledge to that effect! Make
sure you understand the difference between the two parts of this course!
Collaboration with others is known to be
educationally beneficial, but The Fundamental Canons of Engineering Ethics does
provide for engineers to give proper credit for engineering work to those to
who credit is due (See, e.g., this IIT
Repository of Online Codes of Ethics, which includes those of all the major
professional societies.) Therefore, references should be cited on all written
work to acknowledge the aid of other individuals and both published and
unpublished references.