ECEN 1100 Freshman Seminar
Fall Semester 2006


Instructor: Prof. Thompson Brown, ECEE 1B22, 492-4190, 492-2758 (Fax)
tomb@colorado.edu

COURSE SYLLABUS

Schedule: ECCR 200
Tues 5:00-5:50, beginning 8/28 and continuing weekly
Grading: Reports must be submitted using the online form by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday following the seminar to receive full credit (full credit = 1 point).
Reports submitted after 5:00 p.m. on Friday but before 5:00 p.m. on Friday of the next week will receive 1/2 credit (half credit = 0.5 point).
Accumulate 14 or more points to earn an A
11 to 13.5 points to earn a B
8 to 10.5 points to earn a C
5 to 7.5 points to earn a D
0 to 4.5 points to earn an F
Report Form for Final Week
Report Form for weeks 2 through 14
Reports Received
You must access this form with the login and password given in class.
It is updated periodically but is not real-time. Check the bottom of the page for the date and time it was posted.


Objectives

Introduce freshmen engineering students to electrical and computer engineering and to the people who practice it. Help students design a curriculum that will prepare them to follow a career in electrical and computer engineering.


The Seminars

Seminar speakers will introduce themselves, talk about their educational background, and advise students about how to successfully complete an 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 the industry. The emphasis will be on informality.


The Speakers

Date Speaker(s) Topic
8/28 Tom Brown,
Andrew Pleszkun, and
Valerie Matthews,
ECE Dept. 		Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering