ENGR 101

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ENGR 101

• Academic Life

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Announcements

• There is a student in this class with a
  disability who has requested the services of a
  volunteer notetaker. The student volunteer will
  receive a 100 award at the end of the semester.
  If you would be willing to assist someone by
  sharing a copy of your class notes please contact
  Disability Support Services 618-453-5738 Woody
  Hall B-150 and inform them you would be willing
  to be a notetaker for ENGR 101

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Outline

• Advisement
• Important Dates of Semester
• Contractual Agreement
• Resources
• Grades
• Absences
• Tutoring

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Advisement
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Important Dates of Semester

• Adding
• Classes can be added during the first week using
  on-line registration
• After the first week, or if the class is full,
  you must obtain instructor signature and return
  it to advisement
• Dropping
• If you are struggling in a class, talk with the
  instructor, advisor, or associate dean to see
  what you should do
• If it is decided to drop a class it must be by
  the end of the 8th week of the semester (16 Oct
  2009)
• Not dropping a class and not completing it
  results in a withdraw-fail WF which counts as a
  failing grade
• Preregistration for next semester
• Appointments made starting the 3rd week of each
  semester (8 Sep)
• Registration User Number (RUN) given during
  preregistration and changed each semester
• Monday Sep 7 and Wednesday 11 Nov are Labor Day
  and Veterans Day No classes held
• Saturday November 21 through Sunday November 29
  is Thanksgiving Break No classes held
• December 14-18 is final exams. Leave only after
  taking all finals

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Contractual Agreement

• The College of Engineering will
• Provide knowledgeable instructors
• Teach information in a clear and interesting way
• Provide teaching assistants / tutors / or
  professors office hours to help learn the
  material
• Provide adequate classrooms and laboratories
• The student will
• Understand the importance of a college education
• Be responsible, dependable and mature
• Spend appropriate amount of time studying
• Have proper balance between schoolwork, part-time
  work, family, friends, and social activities
• All syllabi essentially restate this agreement
• Less learning is obtained when the agreement is
  broken

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Resources

• Tangible and intangible resources are required to
  be successful in anything
• Resources needed by a tennis player
• Tangible
• Tennis balls, racquet, and court
• Proper attire such as shoes, shorts, shirts, sun
  visor
• Coach and/or practicing partner
• Proper nutrition and sleep
• Intangible
• Time to practice
• Desire to be successful and understanding the
  importance
• Strategy (during practice and match)
• Knowing the rules

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Resources (cont)

• Resources needed by a SIUC College of Engineering
  student
• Tangible
• Books
• Calculator
• Pens/pencils
• Instructors / Teaching Assistants / Tutors
• Classrooms
• Relatively quiet study places
• Proper attire (coats, shoes, clothing)
• Intangible
• Time set aside to study
• Desire to be successful in school by
  understanding importance of education
• Strategy during studying and tests
• Understanding rules/policies/procedures

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Grading

• Grades are earned, not given randomly by the
  professor
• Earned grades are based on set criteria
• Example What grade would a ENGR 101 student earn
  who received 5/10 for notebook 167/200 for
  homework 280/ 300 for lab reports 52/60 on
  midterm 64/73 on the final and 2 absences?
• Notebook 10 Homework/Lab Assign 25 Lab
  Reports 25 Midterm Exam 20 Final Exam 20 3
  deduction for each absence
• A 90100 B 8089 C 7079 D 6069 Flt
  60
• Please clearly write your name on a piece of
  paper and the solution to this problem and turn
  it in, also write down a famous engineer and what
  they were famous for.

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Grading

• Solution
• 5/10 10 5 pts (50) (Notebook)
• 167/20025 20.9 pts (83.5) (Homework)
• 280/30025 23.3 pts (93) (Lab Reports)
• 52/60 20 17.3 pts (87) (Midterm Exam)
• 64/73 20 17.5 pts (88) (Final Exam)
• Total points 84.1
• 2 absences results in -6 pts
• Final score of 78.1 pts (C)

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Absences

• ENGR 101 faculty members during FA 2007 semester
  discovered that some students need guidance about
  absences
• Short term absence
• What consists of short term absence
• 1 or 2 class periods but not missing tests (minor
  illness)
• After the absence return back to class
• Medium term absence
• What consists of medium term absence
• 2 to 4 class periods (approx 1 week) (noticeable
  illness)
• Email or call professors to inform them of
  noticeable illness
• Long term absence
• 4 or more class periods
• Due to serious illness (broken limb, serious
  accident, appendix rupture, etc.)
• As soon as possible inform College of Engineering
  (618-453-4321) give them your name, illness,
  expected return date
• Obtain documentation from hospital

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Absences

• If you are conscious and because of illness miss
  a test inform the professor ahead of time
• If you are unconscious and miss a test, after
  life threatening illness is over call the College
  of Engineering (618-453-4321)
• If you are too ill to take a test, you are ill
  enough to attend the doctor
• When people in the workforce and athletes are ill
  they put much effort becoming healthy and learn
  how to prevent that illness in the future.
  Students full time job is studying and need to be
  healthy to do well in that job

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Tutoring

• Occurs at Thompson Point
• Math, physics, chemistry, engineering
• Beneficial if used correctly (discussed in
  following slides)

FALL SEMESTER 2009 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
STUDENTS FREE TUTORING STUDY
GROUPS MENTORING (Beginning Thursday, August 27,
2009) WHERE Lentz Hall - Lower Level
(Computer Lab/Study Room) WHEN 700 p.m.
1000 p.m. Monday Thursday SUBJECTS Physics,
Chemistry, Math, Engineering and most other
courses COST FREE TO COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
STUDENTS For more information contact the
Deans office (ENGR E-102, 618-453-4321) or
Advisement (ENGR D-104, 618-453-2261)
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Tutoring

• Tutoring sometimes is not used because
• Feel dumb going to ask for help
• May have to leave where you are studying to
  obtain help
• The tutors may not help to much
• Feel that you truly learn the material better
  without help
• Tutoring is beneficial if correct principles are
  followed such as
• Assistance that provides knowledge to truly learn
  the material and do well in the course
• You (or someone else such as parent, government,
  etc.) are paying for you to receive understanding
  of engineering. Get the most out of your money.
• When we attend other things (stores, amusement
  parks, car dealerships) we always try to get the
  most from our money we should in education also
• Just having a college degree does not mean a good
  job and happy life if you dont understand the
  material you may lose the job and/or the
  organization you work for will suffer

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Tutoring

• Which of the following situations provides
  knowledge to learn the material and do well in
  the course (take 5 minutes in groups of 3)
• Getting stuck at the beginning of the problem and
  your friend tells you what things to write down,
  which you blindly do, to solve the problem
• Getting stuck and trying for 2 hours after which
  time you study a different subject
• Getting stuck and trying for another 15 minutes
  and then receive help and then redo the problem
  after receiving help
• Trying problems and then after getting stuck
  using the answers to the problems and write down
  the correct answer
• Photocopying someone elses problems and changing
  their name to yours
• Trying all the problems and completing many of
  them yourself for 1.5 hours and then meeting with
  friends when you go over the problems and
  determine which ones were done incorrectly, why
  they are incorrect, and redoing them correctly
• Trying the problems and then after getting stuck
  using the answers to understand how the problem
  should be solved and then solving the problem
  completely by yourself
• Giving a review of the math course you are all
  enrolled in and you know well receiving a review
  of physics from a person in the course who is
  doing well in it

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Tutoring

• Correct answers are 3, 6, 7, 8
• Dont be afraid to use tutoring