ENGINEERING 10B SYNOPSIS |
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What is this course about? If you want to read the catalog description, it can be found here However, I wish to point out that I am attempting to make this course as practical as possible. Not only do I want it to be applicable to your college career, but I want to give students the idea of what engineers do in the "real world". There are 5 learning objectives for Engineering 10B 1) Design I feel that design is at the heart of engineering. Solving problems is well and good, but there must be an overarching purpose which requires a measure of creativity. 2) Teamwork You must learn how to make teams constructive. You will be on many teams over your career. Working together professionally is a must. 3) EXCEL/Matlab Microsoft EXCEL or other spreadsheet programs are used in many engineering courses as well as out in industry. Matlab is a mathematics program used in high level engineering research. It's good to have a handle on these programs. 4) Documentation/Presentation Skills Get used to writing engineering reports. Get used to presenting to a customer (or upper management) what it is that you’ve done. 5) Analytical Thought Many problems that you have in college have specific answers. By contrast, once you are in industry, oftentimes you may not know the answer. Problems are open-ended. Setting up the problem is the problem in itself. |