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ENGR 328 -- Controls SystemsInformation for ENGR 328
WEB SITE328 Web site http://chem.engr.utc.edu/328
On that site is a link to "Class Syllabus"
E-MAIL & TRANSFERING FILES
You'll get e-mail via a "Generic-E-Mail" address that UTC has for you.
It looks like this: jim-henry@GEM.UTC.EDU
That address is really a pseudonym (fake name) for your REAL e-mail address.
You need to tell the UTC registration system what your REAL e-mail address is.
Change the e-mail address on file from the online registration system (http://www.utc.edu/online_reg/on_reg1.html). If you follow the links to Register or check status of Confirmation of Attendance, you will eventually come to a screen that says:
"SELF SERVICE REGISTRATION VERSION 1.3" and if you choose #1, you can change your e-mail address on file with the University.
Your professor will use "BlackBoard" for grades and receiving files from you and your Group.
There is a link to our BlackBoard site on the 328 web page.
See instructions at http://www.utc.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/BB4Students.html
You can use BlackBoard for sending files to a Group "File Exchange" for Groupmates or the professor to get.
Your professor wants you to send a file to your Group's "File Exchange' before next Tuesday.
TEAMS
We will work in Groups this semester. The Groups will be assigned on the first day of class. They will be changed once, after three weeks. If everybody in your Group requests, in writing, after three weeks, to leave your Group unchanged, that request will be granted.
EXAM 1
Approximately, Tuesday, Feb. 11
Team Assignments:Team roles rotate with each assignment. Johnson et al. (1991) suggest
(1) the coordinator
(organizes assignment into subtasks, allocates responsibilities, keeps group on task),
(2) the checker (monitors
both the solutions and every Group member's comprehension of them), and
(3) the recorder (checks for
consensus, writes the final group solution).
Heller et al. (1992) propose
(4) the skeptic (plays devil's advocate,
suggests alternative possibilities, keeps group from leaping to premature conclusions).
Only the names of the students who actually participated should appear on the final product, with their Group roles for that assignment identified.
Minute Write:
End of each class, Two questions
(1) What is the most significant thing you learned today?
(2) What question is uppermost in your mind at the end of this class session?
Special Services:
Your success in ENGR 328 is vital to me. If you have a disability which may require assistance or accommodations, or if you have questions related to any accommodations for testing, note takers, readers, etc..., please speak with me as soon as possible. You may also contact the Office of Student Affairs (755-4534) with questions about any such services.
If you have any special request of me to help you this semester, please ask me.
Special Opportunity:
A small amount of money is available to sponsor something that will improve the learning in this class. If you have an idea for something that will do this, submit a letter that describes how you propose to accomplish this and your idea may be funded. Ordinarily the limit for an idea is $25. Submit your letter before theend of the third week of classes.
Working & learning together:
I invite you to work together to help each other learn.
Reminder for instructor:
"First, we now know a great more about learning and learning styles then we did many years ago. Students come into class with many innate learning styles and fewer imposed learning habits. It seems to me that one of our responsibilities is to expose both ourselves and the students to new, stretching and challenging experiences. Second, a demonstration of proficiency on a test is little more than a demonstration of test taking. It is a poor reflection of learning, education and retention." -- Louis Schmier
Total Quality Learning-328
Students' perspective
The System:
TQL is equivalent to a dynamic control system where the students and the instructor are taking data from each other, making decisions and reacting in a way to make the class more efficient and productive.
TQL is where everyone works as a Group; both the students and the instructor
In Class: For me as a student it means...
1. Answering questions in class
2. Asking question in class to clarify material.
3. Attending all classes
4. Being on time for class
5. Doing work on the board
6. Listening in class
7. Monitoring doors and lights
8.
Responding to the instructor or other students in class
Out of class: For me as a student it means...
1. Asking for help from instructor outside of class
2. Completing assigned work
3. Copying posted solutions for further study
4. Doing extra credit work
5.
Following the "Top 8 Easy Ways to Show Quality"
6.
Giving feedback to the instructor
7. Preparing for class
8. Reading chapter 1 & 2
9.
Resubmitting work that was missed or incomplete
10.
Reviewing notes
11. Studying in groups
12. Studying the book
13. Suggesting improvements for the course
14. Trading knowledge with other students
15. Working neat and orderly
16.
Working problems in addition to those assigned
17.
Working with other students and asking each other questions
Total Quality Learning-328
Top 8 Easy Ways to Show Quality in Homework
8. Put your name on the top after you fold the left half of the sheet over the right
7. Present your solution in the same order as the assignment
6. Fold your papers neatly
5. Get your papers even before stapling
4. If you verify your work in some way and it doesn't check, correct it or make a notation that you've discovered a discrepancy
3. Organize your work
2. Show your work
1. Complete the assignment
Conditions for resubmitting homework and exams
1. Do the complete assignment
2. Resubmit the original graded assignment
3. Attach a
statement of what you learned by resubmitting the assignment. This statement is
to contain 25 words or more.
4. Attach a statement of which of the
"Skills..." listed below was the most help to you. This statement is to contain
25 words or more.
5. The resubmitted work is not later than two weeks after
you get your graded work returned to you.
6. No more than two resubmitted
assignments can be resubmitted at each class meeting.
Skills mentioned that help on exam
Before Exam
Attend class
Attentive
Circuits experience
Good study habits
Knew material
Knowledge of English language
Note taking
Organizing notes & homework for quick reference--3
Study--8
Understand the principles
Worked extra-credit problems
Worked HW by myself--2
Important sentences in Smith & Corripio [2]
p 15 Laplace Transform Table
p 31 the FIVE Questions
p 35 Trigonometry
p 94 The WORST thing
p 304 Significant figures
p 391 Units are important
Errata in Smith & Corripio [2]
p 37 Is there an error in the table at the top?
p 49 (2-5.4) needs (2) in the exponent of "d" in the first term
p 98 Item 6 has a + where it should be a -
p 131 Problem 3-21 should have C(s)/R(s) instead of C(s)/L(s)
Omit Sentence in Smith & Corripio [2]
contact Jim Henry - jim-henry@utc.edu ... Send E-Mail to Jim Henry
23 August 1997, Last updated 4 Jan 2003