A presentation on my service learning, engineering courses and leveraging Appropedia to the Humboldt State University Business Partners Steering Committee Meeting.
2. Service Learning Engineering Courses ENGR114: Whole Earth Engineering Examples, Hands on & Discussion ENGR215: Introduction to Design Design Process & Technical Writing ENGR305: Appropriate Technology Science, How To & Qualitative Analysis ENGR308: Tech. and the Environment Technology, Excel & Quantitative Analysis Parras Summer Program Full immersion summer in Mexico
3. ENGR215: Introduction to Design Projects: Real Hands on All parts of an open design process Works towards a better world Clients: Time • Effort • Money Student teams (of 3 or 4 students): Time • Effort • Money Other Coursework: Time managment, Team work, Technical writing, ACAD, Office, Project management
9. ENGR215: WaterpodS09 Shown on almost every major news channel and many publications, including the New York Times and North Coast Journal. Nature Magazine mentioned HSU and Engr215 Projects last month.
See http://www.appropedia.org/User:Lonny/Course_descriptions andhttp://www.appropedia.org/Parras_Invitationfor more.
See http://www.appropedia.org/Engr215_Introduction_to_Designfor more.Projects:Be a real, hands-on, open design problem that works towards a better world.Allow students to take part in all parts of the design process.Clients:Make a minimum commitment of time, effort and money. Student teams (of 3 or 4 students):Spend approximates 180 hours per team.Spend a maximum of $75/student.Write an approximately 50 page technical paperOther Coursework:Peer evaluation, Teamwork, Ethics, MS Excel, MS Word, AutoCAD, Time Management, Gantt charts, Project Management, Wiki, etc.
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