EGN-1002 - Introduction

1. EGN-1002 - Introduction By Wilmer Arellano

2. Overview • Syllabus • Attrition • Introduce Yourself

3. Contact Information • Instructor: • arellano@fiu.edu • Learning Assistants • Fernando Lopez – flope022@fiu.edu • Natalie Alonso- nalon021@fiu.edu • Course Web Site • Web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano

4. Syllabus • EGN 1002 Engineering Orientation • Summer 2013  • Instructor: Wilmer Arellano • Office: EC 3834 • Office Phone: X-74905 (during office hours only) (305-348-4905) • Office Hours: T, TR: 2:00PM - 3:15 PM (by appointment) • Classroom: EC 1109 • Class Schedule: T, TR: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM • Course Website: web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano • Email: arellano@fiu.edu • Department Phone: (305) 348-2807

5. 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

6. 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

7. Syllabus

8. Syllabus

9. Tentative

10. Hardware Project All Terrain Robot

11. The Client’s Need Verbally presented at class time.

12. Team 1

13. Team 2

14. Team 4

15. Team 5

16. Video Samples • Video 1 • Video 2

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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. • 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. 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 http://www.asee.org/retention-project/keeping-students-in-engineering-a-research-guide-to-improving-retention

22. 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.

23. Engineering at FIU • School of Computing and Information Sciences • Biomedical Engineering • Civil Engineering • Environmental Engineering • Construction Management • Electrical Engineering • Computer Engineering • Mechanical Engineering • Materials Engineering

24. Introduce Yourself

25. 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.

26. 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).

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. 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

31. 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/challenges.aspx

32. Outline • Resume • Prepare a resume similar to the “The Student/Entry-Level Resume”. • http://web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano/1002/Resume/Writing%20your%20Resume.pdf • Essay • Contact Information (do not provide actual contact information). • Relevant information about your recent pre-college achievements, activities, and experiences and your achievements, activities and experiences at FIU. • Statements of your character supported by details of your achievements. • The employer will be looking for what reasons motivated you to become an engineer. • Your position about the greatest engineering challenges in the near future. • Presentation • You have 90 seconds to talk about points 2 – 4 of the Essay.

33. Review • Syllabus • Attrition • Introduce Yourself

34. & Questions Answers