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Professor: |
Dr. Peggy Brouse |
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Assignment Submission: |
WebCT
usage is required in the class; instructions are below. |
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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 (2005), 2d edition, Leo Finkelstein.� McGraw-Hill.����������� ISBN 0-07-246849-1 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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Disabilities Statement: |
If you are a
student with a disability and you need academic accommodations, please see me
and contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at 993-2474. All
academic accommodations must be arranged through the DRC. |
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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% |
Writing Intensive Statement
This course fulfills
all/in part the Writing-Intensive requirement in the Systems Engineering
undergraduate major. It does so through the five ethic write-ups, bleeding edge
paper outline, bleeding edge draft paper, bleeding edge final paper and the
seminar review paper.� The bleeding edge
paper will be completed through a draft/feedback/revision process. The due date
for each is below; I will provide comments on each.
Disabilities Statement
If you are a student with a
disability and you need academic accommodations, please see me and contact the
Disability Resource Center (DRC) at 993-2474. All academic accommodations
must be arranged through the DRC
How To
Access WebCT?
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Go to http://webct41.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