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Professor: |
Dr. Peggy Brouse |
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Assignment Submission: |
WebCT
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Work Phone: |
(703) 993-1502 (with voice mail) |
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FAX: |
(703) 993-1706 |
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E-mail: |
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Office: |
GMU:� Science and Technology II - Room 317 |
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Office Hours: |
Mondays |
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Course Description: |
This course is designed to introduce the students to several important topics in systems engineering, provide additional experience to the students in writing and giving presentations, and obtain feedback on the curriculum for the B.S. in Systems Engineering.� Several lectures will be devoted to ethics in systems engineering.� Writing and making presentations for systems engineering will also be covered early in the semester. Lecture series presenters will present material that is not part of the required course load to expand the horizons of the students.� Each student will write a short paper on each of these presentations.� In addition, students will work in teams to critique and redesign the curriculum in Systems Engineering.� Each group will deliver a written product and provide at least one briefing to the class.� The best critique and redesign will be presented to the faculty. |
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Course Hours: |
Monday and Wednesday�
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Text: |
1. Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists (2000) Leo Finkelstein.� McGraw-Hill.����������� ISBN 0-07-237080-7 2.
Preparing
and Delivering Effective Technical Presentations (2000), David Adamy.� Artech House
Publishers; 2nd edition.� ISBN
1-5805-3017-6 3.
Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of
Engineering: Selected |
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Grades: |
On following page |
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Topic |
Lecture |
Deliverables |
Grading |
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Technical Writing |
From Finkelstein text 1 - Introduction, Technical Definition, Description
of a Mechanism, Description of a Process:�
pages 1 - 61 2 � Proposals, Progress Reports, Feasibility
Reports:� pages 63 � 118 3 � Instructions and Manuals, Laboratory and Project
Reports, Research Reports:� pages 119 �
170 4 � Documentation, Visuals, Electronic Publishing:
pages 207 � 232, 251 - 266 |
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Giving Presentations |
From Adamy text |
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Ethics |
From Herkert text |
Individual: Case write-ups (every case except the one your
group presents) Group: Team presentation and discussion lead.� Team paper. |
Individual: 10% Group: students evaluation of others in group 20% |
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Curriculum Review |
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Group: Determine subject of curriculum review Brief subject Interview professors, students Draft review Final review In-class brief Vote on best Brief faculty |
Group: 4 students evaluation of others in group 25% |
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Technology Review |
Attend speaker series lecture |
Individual: Short paper on lecture attended (3 pages) Long paper on bleeding edge technology (20 pages) |
Individual: 10% 25% |
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Professionalism |
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Individual: Evaluated by instructor |
Individual: 10% |
Exact Grade
Breakdown
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Individual |
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Ethics - Writeups (5 at 2%
each) |
10% |
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Bleeding Edge Annotated Outline Presentation |
5% |
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Bleeding Edge Presentation |
5% |
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Bleeding Edge Paper Draft |
5% |
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Bleeding Edge Paper |
10% |
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Seminar Review Paper |
10% |
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Professionalism |
10% |
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Group |
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Ethics Case Presentation |
10% |
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Ethics Case paper |
10% |
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Curriculum
Review Subject |
5% |
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Curriculum
Review Draft Presentation/Paper (2.5% each) |
5% |
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Curriculum
Review Final Presentation/Paper (7.5% each) |
15% |
How To
Access WebCT?
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Go to http://webct38.gmu.edu
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Enter WebCT ID and password:
Students need a WebCT
ID and password to login. Their WebCT ID is their
Mason mail user name (e.g. the WebCT ID for
[email protected] would be jdoe);�� Starting
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If you
do not know your Mason mail user name, go to http://mail.gmu.edu and click on �Activating My Account�
icon, follow the steps.
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All
assignments have due dates and submissions after the due date/time will not be
possible, since WebCT will automatically block
�submit my homework� option.
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From
time to time, WebCT works too slowly. Especially from
a dial-up internet connection, WebCT access may not
be so efficient all the time; students are encouraged to submit their work
earlier than the deadline.
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If you
experience any problem while accessing/using WebCT,
pls. send an e-mail to Dr. Brouse, [email protected]
CLASS SCHEDULE
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Week 1> |
30 August/���������
1 September |
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Background;
Introductions, in-class writing assignment |
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Week 2> |
6 September 8 September |
� LABOR
DAY - no classes � Group work day � Curriculum Review
Subject |
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Week 3> |
13/15 September |
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Week 4> |
20 September 22 September |
� Lecture Finkelstein 3 � Group: 5 min presentation of
curriculum review subject |
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Week 5> |
27 September 29 September |
� Lecture Finkelstein 4 � Ethics case choices due |
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Week 6> |
4 October����������
6 October |
� Lecture Adamy
1, 2 � Individual: Write up (annotated
outline) on bleeding edge paper due |
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Week 7> |
12 October 13 October |
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NOTE: 12 October is a Tuesday class
- �Lecture Adamy 3 �
Individual:
5 min presentations on bleeding edge paper to date |
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Week 8> |
18 October 20 October |
� Individual: 5 min presentations on
bleeding edge paper to date � Lecture: Herkert |
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Week 9> |
25 October 27 October |
� Group Presentation: Ethics Case 1 � Group Presentation: Ethics Case 2, Individual: Write up (draft paper)
on bleeding edge paper due |
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Week 10> |
1 November����������
3 November |
� Group: 5 min presentation of
curriculum review to date, Group: Write up (draft) on curriculum review due � Group Presentation: Ethics Case 3 |
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Week 11> |
8 November 10 November |
� Group Presentation: Ethics Case 4 � Group Presentation: Ethics Case 5 |
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Week 12> |
15 November 17 November |
� Group Presentation: Ethics Case 6,� Individual Ethics Case Write-ups due � Individual: Presentations of bleeding edge paper, Final bleeding edge due |
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Week 13> |
22 November 24 November |
� Individual: Presentations of final paper, Group:
Final curriculum review due � Group work day � Final Curriculum
Review |
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Week 14> |
29 November |
� Group: Presentations of final curriculum review |
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Week 15> |
1 December 4 December (Thursday) |
� Colby Africa> guest lecture � Individual: short paper on lecture attended due � Individual:�
Evaluation of Others in Group due � Group: Presentation to faculty on curriculum review
(everyone attends)> will be coordinated with SYST490 presentations to
faculty |
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