ID101 ITechKnow

Fall 2007 Monday 1:40-4:20 Eng 109

Outline

Reading Assignments

Written Assignments

Student pages/projects

Grading Policy

Lecture Notes

Instructors

Prof. Terry Boult	Morgan Shepherd	Rick Redella	with and Jeremy Haefner

TB: 719 262 3510 (forwards to cell ) Cell/TXT: 719 963 0573 IM (not email) at Dr_Innovaition@yahoo and dr_innovaition@hotmail.com doctorinnovaiton on AIM	262 3641	(847) 494-1590	262 3044
TB: M 12-1, W 11-12 EAS 174 & By appoitment	MS: ???? and By appoitment	RR: By appoitment	JH: By appoitment
JTA: Erica erica @ vast.uccs.edu		JTA: Robert Sikorski rsikorsk @ uccs.edu

A few lectures will have "guest" speakers who will present and then we will lead the discussion of issues. Other classes will be lead by you, the students. Syllabus of topics for each week will be posted here after Preview Daze

Outline and Schedule

This is very approximate. We are working to try an bring outside speakers but their scheduels are still in flux. Everything is subject to change, including based on student feedback.

Date	Topic/Disciplinary Focus	Assignments (Preliminary)	Responsibility

Week 1 8/20	Computers/Internet/Communication	Do the suggested reading.	TBoult
Week 2 8/27	Field trip to the Olympic Training Center	Sports engineering assignment	Morgan Shepherd
Week 3 9/03		No classes Monday or Tuesday this week Read the "Security" secion of the "Great ideeas" web pages for next week.
Week 4 9/10	Security Engineering Secrets from the Library	Write-up of the various student resources available on campus Library Quiz/p>	Rita from Libarary TBoult
Week 5 9/17	Transportation Engineering	Detail the bus schedule on campus, and city. Measure how accurate the busses are. Then, given two destinations map out how to get there from UCCS	Morgan Shepherd and Rick Redella
Week 6 9/24	SpreadSheets Budgets and time to work on Transport Eng
Week 7 10/01	Transportation Presentations
Week 8 10/08	EE
Week 9 10/15	Personal Financials and Games Entertainment and technology.		Rick Ridella, Tim Chammilard
Week 10 10/22	Mechanical/Areospace		Boeing
Week 11 10/30	Team Presentations on Survey of other engineering fields	Student evaluations and surveys

Course Objective

In addition the the standard Freshman Seminar Objectives, this course has addition objectives to Introduce the students to major technologies and engineering and its impacts on society, nation and our world.

Other objectives include:

Students will gain experience in selecting, reading and critically evaluate ideas/opportunities.
Students will gain experience in selecting, reading and critically evaluate ideas/opportunities.
Experience in both oral and written communication

Outcomes

Students will have a basic understanding of how engineering and technology has impacted society and and general overview of different fields of engineering
Students will have experience working in teams
Students will have better understanding of how to address college-level work

Textbooks and other readings

None.
Articles from various magazines and lots of online sources.
Some of these will be posted in the class reading list. The list will be on line and will continue to expand, however not all papers will necessarily be available on line.

Class Participation and Grading

Class will include significant "discussions", which will be a major part of the grade. The class "time" will not all be lecture and extended on-line discussions/blogging will be part of the process.

When A review is for reading, it is due 24hrs before each class, and should be posted as instructed. Some reviews will be individuals, some will be group.
Class participation is a very important part of your grade. If you are going to miss class you should contact us ahead of time via email and probably provide a number I can call you to resolve the issue. Everyone is expected to take part in class having done the reading, written your reviews and taken part in a discussion group. When we have visitors and you are unprepared, it will not be pretty. You should always expect to be called upon to lead part of the discussion in any class, critique any shared reading material, summarize your individual reading material. Your group may want to prepare basic materials so that any one of you can lead the discuss of your "groups" comparative analysis.

Academic dishostesty and plagiarism will not be tolerated. You should be aware of the UCCS academic honor code (in the Bulletin guidelines and the Plagiarsim guidelines. Team assignments are to be done with members of your team. Indivdual assignment turnin are to be your own work.

WORKLOAD and HOMEWORK

We expect students to devote an average of 3-4 hours per week OUTSIDE OF CLASS on the work for this class. When working on brainstorming or other activities its difficult to estimate how much effort some student will need to spend to achieve the results. Ineffective team work can dramatically expand an hour exercise into much more.

Class grading scheme:

15% Class participation/presentations/SII/Calendar from Preview Daze
20% Remaining class participation (attendance, meetings with JTA, questions/answers in class
30% In class presentations
30% "Turn ins", including in classes quizzes, class analysis documents, etc.