ID101 ITechKnow

Fall 2006 Tues 1-4 Eng 109 Aug 17/18 Sci 244 rest of term

Outline

Reading Assignments

Written Assignments

Student pages/projects

Grading Policy

Lecture Notes

Instructors

Prof. Terry Boult		Dean Jeremy Haefner
Phone :	719 262 3510 (office after 4rings forwards to my cell )	719-262-3543
Email:		haefner@eas.uccs.edu
Office Hours:	TB: Wed 3-4pm & By appoitment	JH: By appoitment
JTAs:	Justina Sokolovaite jsokolov@uccs.edu	Phillip Ratliff pratliff@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

Date	Topic/Event	Visitor	Notes
17 Aug, Thursday
18 Aug, Friday	Conceputal Blockbustering. Powerpoint
22 Aug Tuesday, 1:40 4:40	Imaging	T. Boult
29 Aug	TBA	TBA	Jere traveling;
5 Sept	NO CLASS
12 Sept	TBA	TBA
19 Sept	Mobile Phones/Communications	Jim Crenshaw, Product Manager Motorala	Jere traveling;
26 Sept	Eletronics	Tom Saponas VP Agilent Technologies
3 Oct	Internet/Cybersecurity	Gail Hamilton VP Symantic (retired)
10 Oct	Intellectual Property, Reverse engineering of TBA	Art Nutter
17 Oct	Students TBA		Jere traveling;
24 Oct	Students TBA		Jere traveling
31 Oct	Students TBA		Last Day of Class

Course Objective

In addition the the standard Freshman Seminar Objectives, this course has addition objectives to Introduce the students to major technologies and engineering accomplishments that have shaped our nation and our world.

Other objectives include:

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 in teams
Students will have better understanding of how to address college-level work

Textbooks and other readings

A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements that Transformed our Lives. by George Constable, Bob Somerville, forward by Neil Armstrong , postscript by Aurthur C Clark
Articles from various magazines.
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 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.

WORKLOAD and HOMEWORK

We expect students to devote an average of 3-4 hours per week 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.