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MSE course syllabi

Engineering 198A

Engineering, Manufacturing, and Creation of Capital

 

Prerequisites:

None. The class is open to any interested student.

Time & credit: 

One 1 hour 48 minute lecture per week plus field trips to local materials industries. One credit hour.

Objectives: 

To provide freshman/sophomore students in engineering with more information about science, business and engineering (of course!) aspects of the engineering profession.

General goals:

Using visits by professionals and trips to manufacturing facilities, this course seeks to:

  • Demonstrate the importance of engineers in manufacturing and our national economy
  • Provide an understanding of what engineers do on a day-to-day basis and how this leads to long-term accomplishment
  • Introduce students to the various career paths that they may take
  • Show how the background knowledge you are going to acquire over the next several years (i.e., all those courses you are going to take) will provide a foundation by which you will translate your own personal characteristics into a successful career in engineering and the creation/maintenance of capital

Textbook: 

None.

Topics: 

Tours of local materials plants and research centers as well as talks by guest speakers in the materials industry.

Grading Plan: 

  • Attendance: 50% (Must attend all classes and tours.  If you are absent, you must come to my office and explain)
  • 30% Tour Reports 6 tours (EWI, Battelle CAR, Buckeye Steel Castings, Worthington Steel, and Holophane).  You must submit 5 reports for full credit short (300 - 500 words) statements that describe (1) what new things you have learned as a result of the tour and (2) how this alters (or does not alter) your view of possible career paths. 
  • 20% Initial Essay and Final Essay The Initial Essay is to be a short one page description of what you think a typical work day at some job will be like five years after receiving your degree. The Final Essay is to be free-form, 2-pages (double-spaced) document that discusses what you might want to do with your life and how you plan to acquire the information you will need to make good decisions.

Academic Integrity, Academic Misconduct

Academic misconduct may be found in any action that tends to distort the accurate assessment of any student’s individual accomplishments that are evaluated for the purpose of grading or conferring academic credit. Note that a student may be guilty of academic misconduct, for example, by cheating, collaborating, plagiarizing, or by allowing another student to cheat, collaborate, or plagiarize. Note also that the distortion applies, for example, to exams, homework assignments, and laboratory work. To the extent that any class activity (for example: attendance or participation) is used for evaluation for the purpose of grading or conferring academic credit, falsifying or distorting such activity, or permitting another student to falsify or distort such activity, represents academic misconduct.

Additional guidance about what represents academic integrity and misconduct, and related university-wide policies and procedures are available at the following locations:

http://oaa.osu.edu/coam/faq.html

http://oaa.osu.edu/coam/ten-suggestions.html

Course-specific exceptions or amplifications to the departmental and university statements outlined above will be provided by the faculty instructor in writing, preferably as part of the course syllabus.

Note: Students should not request nor accept guidance on these matters from a teaching assistant, fellow student, or anyone other than the faculty instructor of record for this course.

Disabilities Statement

Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the Office for Disability Services at 614-292-3307 in room 150 Pomerene Hall to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. (URL: http://www.ods.ohio-state.edu/)

Advice on such matters is also available from the MSE department’s undergraduate adviser (1xx-6xx courses) and graduate coordinator (7xx-9xx courses) whose offices may be found in room 477 Watts Hall.

Megan Daniels, Undergraduate Advisor, (614) 292-3145, e-mail Megan concerning the MSE undergrad studies

Mark Cooper, Graduate Studies Coordinator, (614) 292-7280, e-mail Mark concerning the MSE graduate studies