Syllabus ENGR 201WA S10

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MESSIAH COLLEGE
ENGR 201WA - Water Group Orientation


Classroom

  • Combined - Frey 150
  • Group Specific - F051


Time

  • Combined - Mondays at 1:50 - 2:50 PM
  • Group Specific - 2:50 - 5:10


Advisor - Ariela Vader

  • E-mail address - avader@messiah.edu
  • Office Phone - 766-2511 ext. 7105
  • Home Phone - 796-0586
  • Office hours - by appointment

 

Advisor - Timothy Whitmoyer

  • E-mail address - whitmoye@messiah.edu
  • Office Phone - 766-2511 ext. 6810
  • Office Hours - MWF 9:30 AM - noon, or by appointment


Group Leader - Jaime Emberger

 

VWOS Team Leader - Grant Kruppenbacher


FAPA Team Leader - Dan Ross


Contents

Overview

What is Group Orientation?

Group Orientation is the first of 7 courses that make up the integrated projects portion of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering program at Messiah College. In this Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) you put the knowledge content of other classes to work in creative hands-on problem solving. The IPC brings you and other students together with professors and other advisors to solve real-world problems brought to us by off-campus clients. Through these projects we also seek to live out our Christian faith as God's stewards over the resources of the engineering discipline.

The IPC courses are challenging, but not like other courses. Innovative features include shared project leadership by students and educators, project teams of students from all years of study, and sustained effort between academic semesters to achieve tangible results for clients. The IPC functions within the Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research, so you gain practical work experience in a real organization. Some students decide to pursue voluntary service and leadership in the Collaboratory, but the IPC gives every engineering major some practical experience and an opportunity to consider how their work and Christian faith connect.

In Group Orientation you learn how to work in the the organization called the Collaboratory, and how to work on a project teams. You also gain technical knowledge and competencies specific to your Group. In other words, this is where the Group advisor and current student leaders equip you to be useful in the fall semester on a project team. All of your other classes are general to the engineering discipline; they serve many but no particular industry or class of project. This class is focused specifically on what you need to know to contribute to the work of your Group.

Goals of this class

Students who successfully complete Group Orientation will be able to:

  1. Describe the mission, core values, and operating principles of the Collaboratory.
  2. Discuss the basic principles of project management.
  3. Apply the practices of productive teams and team members.
  4. Write and complete SMART goals, specifications, and deliverable statements
  5. Describe 7 phases of application development.
  6. Name features of good project documentation.
  7. Build a page in the Collaboratory wiki.
  8. State your Group's mission statement, and how it advances the mission of the Collaboratory.
  9. Discuss your Group's history, lessons learned, work culture, and core values.
  10. Name your Group's projects, their clients, and their global objectives.
  11. Research and write a review of the literature on a topic relevant to your Group.
  12. Pass quizzes on technical material specific to your Group.
  13. Satisfy certification requirements for the use of shop and laboratory equipment strategic to the work of your Group.
  14. Demonstrate proficiency in material and part selection for applications important to your Group.


Policies

  1. If you are absent due to illness or emergency, please call or leave a message so that your professor can determine if the absence is excused or unexcused. If your professor does not hear from you within 48 hours of the missed class then the absence is unexcused.
  2. If you miss a quiz and your absence is excused, the professor will probably ask you to take it later. In rare cases you may be excused from the quiz, meaning the quiz will not count for or against your final grade. If your absence on the day of a quiz is unexcused then you have earned a score of zero.
  3. The professor will accept late work if you have an excused absence. The length your extension will depend on the assignment and circumstances. You must make arrangements for an extension when you see your professor about the absence.
  4. Assignments will be collected at the beginning of class on the due date. The professor will accept late work up to one full day after the due date with a 10% penalty, and work that is more than a day but not more than a week late for 1/2 credit. You can not excel in this course if you don't keep up. The goal of this late-work policy is to encourage you to keep up with the work, while providing some flexibility for the occasional emergency. Finally, if you miss an assignment, get something in. Half credit is much better than a zero!
  5. You may submit work that is assigned on a day that you are absent from class. There will be no opportunity, however, to make up in-class assignments. If you have an excused absence the professor will excuse you from in-class assignments; they will not count for or against you on the day of your excused absence. If the absence is unexcused, you have earned a score of zero for class exercised on that day.
  6. The standard for all assignments is professional documentation prepared for your peers. Write for persons who know as much but not more about engineering than you. This is because when you write about your IPC project it will be for the next generation of students!
  7. As part of the documentation requirement for this course, you will be required to keep a logbook. Your logbook will stay with you throughout all the IPC project courses, so take care of it and use it wisely.
  8. Plan on Group Orientation class running for three hours. The actual class length will vary from week to week, but please do not commit to other activities in anticipation of routinely finishing class early.


Grades

Serving as your assistant in a time of personal growth and development is your professor's motivation for teaching. We are not here primarily to rank you according to ability. Your value as a person is independent of class performance. Whether you excel or struggle, you are an important part of our lives this semester and beyond.

Grades for the course should, however, reflect individual progress as engineering students. A fair and thorough evaluation is important, both to you and to the reputation of the Engineering Program at Messiah College. Since your achievement must eventually be reflected in a grade, we have established the following basis for determining grades in this course:

  • 25% Combined
    1. 50% Quizzes
    2. 50% Assignments
  • 75% Group Specific



Schedule

Group Orientation is a 3-hour laboratory class. Some learning activities in this class are Combined, that is they are for all students in Group Orientation this semester. Be there! Other learning activities are specific to your Group.

All Combined class sessions are on selected Mondays at 1:50- 2:50PM in Frey 150. All assignments for combined sessions will be available on the Sakai page for the course. Our group will meet at the following time for our group specific activities: 2:50 - 5:10 in F051.

February 1 - 5

  • Introduction to Group Orientation: Meet at 1:50 in F143
  • Combined (February 1): The Collaboratory & IPC - Dr. Fish
  • Group specific: Introduction and schedule shop certification

February 8 - 12

  • Combined (February 8): Research - Prof. Erikson & Beth Transue, Librarian
  • Group specific: History and Future of the Water Group

February 15 - 19

  • Combined (February 15) Documentation, Wiki, & Logbooks - Dr. Fish
  • Group specific: TBA

February 22 - 26

  • Combined (February 22): Working on Teams - Drs. VanDyke and Whitmoyer
  • Group specific: VWOS Overview, FAPA Overview

March 1 - 5

  • Combined (March 1): Introduction to Program Management I - Dr. Fish
  • Group specific: Water Purification Activities -
  1. inventory of available (pertinent) water tests
  2. list of needed tests (to be ordered today for class next week)
  3. sample collection (3 different samples) to run available tests
  • Assignment for next week: write SMART goals for one of the following. You will write the SMART goals for one of your classmates to complete the following tasks on March 8. Post your goals on the Water GO SMART Goals Assignment page
    • list of contaminants to test for in Managua and trial tests to be performed here (on March 8) - Tori (for Wes)
    • list of contaminants to test for in Puerto Cabezas and trial tests to be performed here (on March 8) - Dan (for Tori)
    • procedures for new tests (#2 above) - Wes (for Dan)

March 8 - 12

  • Combined (March 8) Introduction to Program Management II - Dr. Fish
  • Group specific

March 15 - 19 - SPRING BREAK

March 22 - 26

  • Group specific: Fluid/Pump/Purification Calculations, Reverse Osmosis System, Systematic Handpump overview

March 29 - April 2 Short week due to EASTER BREAK

  • Group specific: Pump Activities

April 5 - 9 Short week due to EASTER BREAK

  • No class on Monday April 5 due to EASTER BREAK

April 12 - 16

  • Combined (April 12): Outside Speaker on Special Topic
  • Group specific: Handpump Activities

April 19 - 23

  • Group specific: Project Work

April 26 - April 30

May 3 - May 7 Short week; last week of classes

  • Group specific: Project Work

FINAL EXAM PERIOD (Monday,May 10th, 10:45AM-12:45PM in F110)

  • Combined : Discussion and recommendations for improving this course


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