New Announcement Posted on Blackboard Learn

Please review the announcement posted on the course website regarding the procedure for discussion posts.

Alternative to CAEE-201 for Students with Prior Experience

If you have prior experience that you believe makes CAEE-201 redundant for you please contact Prof. Mitchell with a proposed substitute (technical) course.

Your Work in CAEE-201–Requirements

Your Work in CAEE-201–Requirements

The requirements for your work in this course spelled out in detail in the BbLearn pages addressing each.element.  This page summarizes that work.

Weekly Work

• Attendance

  • We will take attendance at all lectures and lab sessions.  You will have a total of three “free” misses to account for illness or other reasons for missing the class.

• Discussions

  • Post a “discussion” in BbLearn each Monday by the start of class addressing the week’s topic.

  • Note that you’re to have read other student’s work and commented on it.

• Labs

  • Go to the Thursday lab each week

    • Download the lab from BbLearn and review it before the start of the lab session.  That lab session will be your only regular opportunity to meet with a TA to ask questions about the lab.

    • The location and duration of the labs will vary through the term.  We’ll announce that week’s requirements in class. Some weeks we’ll have site visits.

  • Submit your completed lab by the 10:00AM the following Thursday

    • The final lab will be due at the end of the last full week of classes.

End-Of-Term Work

• Take-Home Assessment

  • At the end of the final full week of classes there will be an on-line assessment to be completed over the period of several days.  It will consist of questions drawn from the full term’s worth of work as well as short essay on the best or worst aspect of CAEE-201

Memo Writing for Lab Reports

Here’s a blog entry from Fall AY2013-14 on writing memos for Lab reports.  It contains advice on what to include and how to structure the report.

About You

Here are some statistics about this the membership of CAEE-201 this fall.  As expected most of you are from the CAEE department and most are Sophomores, but we have a scattering from inside and outside the College of Engineering.  All the seniors are from the Business and Engineering program.

I’ll say this in the class, but if you’re required to take CAEE-201 and have significant experience in the field please talk to me.  We may be able to allow you to take another class as a substitute that will be more helpful.

About This Blog

We'll use this blog to post announcements and answer questions that are raised throughout this term related to CAEE-201.  We advise you to subscribe to it via an RSS reader – I use Feedly.  That way you won't have to go into BbLearn to see any changes.  There are many many blogs available on interesting topics.  A good place to search for others that may interest you is Technorati.

Here's the course blog from Spring of AY13-14.   You may find interesting things in it.  Remember that we may change the content and the details of assignments from one term to the next.