As MEEG101 Convenes

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As MEEG101 Convenes

• Pick up your name tag, handout, SCANTRON sheet
• Take a seat near the front
• Introduce yourself to nearby students
• Share something you have heard about this class

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Session Agenda

• 3 minutes
• 15 minutes
• 10 minutes
• 15 minutes
• 10 minutes
• 2 minutes

• Contact before work
• Introduction to MEEG 101
• Introduction to Concepts
• Review Welcome.doc
• Practice quiz
• Assignments

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Contact Before Work

• What Is It?Contact before work is the
  transition from the activities associated with
  getting to class to starting the actual class
  work for the day
• What Do You Do?Typically you quietly discuss
  with your colleagues what was on your mind as you
  came to class or was of particular interest to
  you that you want to share

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Todays Learning Goals

• Become aware of who I am
• Achieve Knowledge about MEEG 101
• Achieve Knowledge about the Concepts Session
• Become aware of change and the role it will play
  in this class

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Who Am I?

• Ph. D in Aero Engr from U of Oklahoma
• 17 yrs in aircraft industry
• General Dynamics (Fort Worth, TX)
• Composites Research Development
• F-16 Composites Fatigue Fracture
• 5 yrs as Director of CCM at UD
• 2 yrs as 1st President of DE Tech Park
• 7 yrs teaching Intro to ME Sr Design
• Chair of ME Curriculum Committee
• Now College Assoc Dean for ABET preparation

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MEEG 101 Mission

• To make students so excited about mechanical
  engineering that they will enthusiastically
  master the knowledge and skills needed to be
  successful.

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MEEG 101 Content
Self-Regulation Time Mgmt Learning
Decision-Making Structure Creativity
ME Profession Engr Method ME Elements
Teamwork Stages Assessment
Modeling Computing Sketching
Quality Customers Variability
Communication Written Oral
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PREFERRED DEFINITION

• The Engineering Method
• is the use of heuristics
• to cause the best change
• in a chaotic situation
• within the available resources.

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Required Course Books

• Strategies for Creative Problem Solving
• How to Model It
• Introduction to Engineering Design, The
  Workbook (a.k.a. the Orange Workbook)
  
• For individual sections, try ASU _at_
  http//www.asu.edu/courses/ece100/about/workbook/
  
• After UD Bookstore, Check Delaware Books on Main
  St, or check out overnight from RESERVE Desk in
  Morris Library

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Course Documents

• Serf http//udserf.udel.edu
• http//www.me.udel.edu//meeg101/00/
• welcome.doc, xxx_policies.doc - stuff you need to
  know ASAP
  
• calendar.doc - topic(s), whats due, and next
  weeks assignment for every session
  
• con1.ppt, mod1.ppt, lab1.ppt, etc.

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Home Page
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Serf Logon
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Ticket Validation
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Preamble
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Preamble, Contd
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Navigation Links
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Register your email
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Type your Preferred Address
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Preamble
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Coordination
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Times
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Home Page
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class-materials directory
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course
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MEEG 101 Environment

• The Learning Environment
• active ( as opposed to passive )
• team-based
• workshop facilitators ( not lecturers )
• requires everyone (including the instructors) to
  change

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In The Classroom

• Active learning, teams, continuous improvement,
  and constructivist problems are used thus, you
  can expect
  
• to participate in small group discussions and
  make presentations to the class
  
• to be team leader, member, and recorder
• to help other students learn
• to make suggestions for improvement
• that some classroom instructions may be unclear

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Focus on Facilitator Signal

• The facilitator needs your attention
• Raise your hands to inform your neighbors
• Finish your sentence
• Do NOT finish your paragraph
• Turn toward the Facilitator

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Change

• Every aspect of this class requires a change in
  the way you think and react!
  
• Change affects everyone differently
• Students who actively participate in the
  classroom activities will become productive
  learners
  
• These students will also develop the skills and
  abilities that employers are looking for in
  todays changing workplace

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Professional Behavior

• Academic Integrity Issues
• referring to materials or employing devices not
  authorized by the instructors
  
• depending on the aid of others to the extent that
  the work is not your own
  
• providing inappropriate aid to another person
• plagiarism
• allowing someone to plagiarize your own work
• See UD Code of Conduct

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Professional Behavior

• Engineers are expected to effectively communicate
  their ideas
  
• Offensive or inappropriate language (written and
  oral) does not effectively communicate the
  desired ideas to the audience
  
• Inappropriate language not only includes words
  that are biased or slanted (racially, sexually,
  ethnically....) but can also include informal
  (slang) words
• Work that is full of grammatical or spelling
  errors also does not effectively communicate ideas

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Professional Behavior

• In this course, you are expected to conduct
  yourselves in a manner that is considered
  professional and ethical, which includes
  
• written communications (assignments)
• oral communications (presentations, conversations
  with peers, instructors, TAs)
  
• electronic communications (forums, email)

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Professional Behavior

• In MEEG 101 you are expected to
• come to each class
• be on time for each class
• work on class assignments (not work for other
  classes)
  
• stay awake
• avoid disruptive side conversations
• Some amount of inappropriate behavior is
  tolerated, but repeated occurrences will result
  in a reduction of your grade

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Course Grading

• Earn Letter Grade in each Session
• Lab, Concepts, Modeling
• Average of 3 for Course Grade
• EXCEPT, Final Course Grade can be no higher than
  1 letter above lowest
  
• So AABA, but AACB, and AADC

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Session Grading/Assessment

• You must first MEET Expectations before you
  can EXCEED Expectations
  
• The faculty is responsible for defining
  expectations (i.e., what is required to MEET
  customer expectations)
  
• Students are responsible for determining what is
  required to EXCEED customer expectations!
  
• Work can be resubmitted ONCE to MEET (but NOT
  EXCEED !! ) Expectations

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Grading Flow Chart
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Session Grading
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Typical Concepts Session

• Begin with a Quiz on the assigned reading
• Discuss the assigned reading
• Practice one or two of the skills in the assigned
  reading
  
• The Laboratory builds on topics learned in
  Concepts.

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Engineering Journal

• Purpose - to help you truly learn the material
  before the Quiz.
  
• Operational benefit - refer to it while you take
  the Quiz!
  
• See con-policies.doc
  sample-journal.doc

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Quiz Grading
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If you make NI on a Quiz...

• Instructions for the Correction Process are in
  con-policies.doc, page 4.
  
• Checklist is in con-chklsts.doc, page 2.

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If you miss a Quiz...

• Instructions for the Makeup Process are in
  con-policies.doc, page 5.
  
• Checklist is in con-chklsts.doc, page 3.

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con1
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For Friday Modeling Session
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For Wednesday Concepts
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Instructions for SCANTRON
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Practice Quiz

• How many Exceeds for an A?
• a) 1
• b) 2
• c) 3
• d) 4
• What day is Modeling on?
• a) Monday
• b) Tuesday
• c) Wednesday
• d) Thursday
• e) Friday

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When Finished...

• Stack completed SCANTRONS at the front table
• See You Friday at 116 Pearson...
• Please gather in the hallway so we can prepare
  the chairs in the room