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ECEN 1100 – Freshman Seminar

Elective – 1 credit hour
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Catalog Description: Introduces students to areas of emphasis with the ECE department through seminars presented by faculty and outside speakers. Emphasizes career opportunities, professional ethics and practices, history of the profession, and resources for academic success. Several sessions promote team building and problem solving, and provide opportunities for freshmen to meet their classmates.

Prerequisites: none

Textbook: none

Course Objectives: Introduce freshmen engineering students to electrical and computer engineering and introduce them to people who practice engineering. Help students design a curriculum that will prepare them to follow a career in electrical and computer engineering. Seminar speakers will introduce themselves, talk about their educational background, and advise students about how to complete a successful undergraduate program of study. They will discuss an interesting product or project they are working on, at a level of complexity that makes the talk accessible to an intelligent layman. To the extent possible they will talk about the industry they work in and explain to students the kind of curriculum they should follow if they seek a career in that industry. Students will be encouraged to engage speakers in a dialog, so that they will have their questions about electrical and computer engineering answered by people who work and teach in the industry. The emphasis will be on informality.

Topics:

  1. A variety of speakers from industry, government agencies, and the university will cover a range of topics related to electrical and computer engineering.
Class Schedule: 1 hour of lecture per week

Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 1 semester hour toward criterion 4(c), a general education component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and institution objectives.

Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.

Prepared by: V. Heuring
DATE: June 29, 2005