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Course EAS 496 Co-Op Experience WELCOME Welcome to an exciting part of your education. The Co-op program enables you to gain exposure to engineering employment, apply technical and business skills in an engineering environment and enhance your job opportunities. View this as a learning experience for yourself and fellow classmates. I recommend you start regular dialog with your classmates about your experiences – compare notes and the like, to help enrich everyone’s experience. Consider having your classmates visit. As your advisor, I will be your main contact and assign your final grade. I have both academic and industrial experience and can provide guidance in nearly all aspects of your endeavor. As a course requirement – email me weekly with an update on your progress, and if time and logistics permit, I will visit your work place. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Contact your advisor weekly by email. The message can be short, highlight one or two of your greatest weekly accomplishments and give a general update on how you are progressing toward meeting your Objectives. Feel free to add more, since I am very interested in how you are progressing. You may want to share this with all your Co-op colleagues. Send an email or call if you are having personnel problems - your advisor is here to help in any way. Objectives and Expectations Form -
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A Written Project Report - Oral Presentation - An oral presentations will be made as described on the Eng-Intern website. Otherwise, make alternate arrangements with your faculty advisor. REQUIREMENTS FOR TECHNICAL DESIGN CREDIT (Optional, required by Prof Hopkins) The Co-op experience qualifies as a Technical Elective. To receive "Design" credit, your work experience must have an integral design component. First, a design problem must be posed without direct insinuation of a solution. Second, you need to determine at least three approaches to solve the problem[1]. Third, you select and implement yours, or another suggested[2] approach. Last, after you have implemented and verified the approach, you need to document your work. You must contact your advisor at the beginning of the work period, inform her/him of your interest in receiving design credit and briefly describe the design problem. After verbal/email approval you will need to complete a Project Proposal in addition to the other regular Co-op forms. A "Design" experience should include nearly all the tasks encountered in a typical design project. Since any project needs to be justified for a company to commit money and personnel, a proposal, in one form or another, is required. The proposal sets the stage why the project is important, how the company will profit and what is needed. As part of the requirements for "Technical Design Credit" by Prof. Hopkins, a short, but full proposal is needed. The format can be one suggested by the Co-op company, from previous university courses or use the format from "4. Writing Your Formal Proposal" as used in EE494 Group Senior Design course. (Other resources are available to you on the EE494 site.)
COURSE SCHEDULE COURSE GRADING You will receive a letter grade (A-F) guided by the following distribution. (Note the need for timeliness in reporting and communications with your advisor. Report Grading - Your format should follow the format mentioned above or a company suggested format. Please make sure the information has been reviewed by the company for public release. Grading is on a 0-5 scale, 5 the best Presentation Grading - Your oral presentation should be well rehearsed and formally presented through electronic media. Feel free to include digital pictures, movies, etc. along with the power point slides. Your appearance and personal presentation style all count. Please make sure the information has been reviewed by the company for public release. Grading is on a 0-5 scale, 5 the best. |
