Posted in Linkedin, Project Management, classes on June 30, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Given my recent foray into the Linkedin Answers, I am closer to coming up with an approach to the Project Management class. I’m not sure how much I will be able to incorporate the Tablet PCs into the class, but I’m sure I’ll find a use. Here are my general thoughts:
Require reading before class. Also [...]
Posted in Linkedin, Project Management, classes, networking on June 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve had an account on Linkedin for several years, since my brother joined and invited me to join and link to him. I never really understood the system until recently, when more has been written about the professional networking site. This article from Web Workers Daily (via Lifehacker) outlines 20 ways to use the service [...]
Posted in Problem Solving, classes, classroom goals on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This course is our first-year course in programming and problem solving. Problem solving as a subject area seems to have fallen away as a fad started by ABET 2000 in the mid-1990’s. I have had other faculty tell me that I should “focus on problem solving, and forget the programming.” My response is “How do [...]
Posted in Communication, Project Management, Technology, classes, tablet pc on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
My project management class has me rethinking the way I write and organize lecture notes. In the past, I pretty much have followed the textbook, highlighting important sections, doing examples related to the current topic and such. With the project management class I’m juggling information from three sources. The first is the main textbook, Gray [...]
Posted in Project Management, classes, classroom goals on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a new class for me. I inherited it when the previous instructor went on phased retirement. The previous instructor seemed to concentrate on Microsoft Project in the class, and taught it’s use heavily, to the point that several faculty believed that the only course content was Microsoft Project. I intend to change that. [...]
Posted in Signals and Systems, Uncategorized on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The first of the classes I will be teaching. I teach this class in the fall.
This class is one of the cornerstone junior year Electrical Engineering courses, and is a difficult one conceptually. Students have a difficult time thinking in terms of time versus frequency domains, and moving between the domains. We teach the Fourier [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
My situation for the 2007-2008 academic year is a bit different for two reasons. 1. I will be teaching one course in the Master’s of Engineering Management program in the Fall, taking me out of the usual Electrical Engineering curriculum. 2. I have a 1 course buyout for the Spring due to [...]
Posted in Humor on June 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I asked a test question recently that no one was able to answer. Not a single student got it right. The question? “What is behind the door marked ‘Exit’?”
Okay, so I actually got that from somewhere else. When I remember where, I’ll update this post.
Posted in classroom goals, grant, tablet pc on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
What are my goals for this project? I’m not sure I know right now. I do know what my student learning outcomes were for the past two grant applications, but I’m not sure those work for what I intend to do. And I have more than just student learning outcomes that I want to attack. [...]
Posted in dean, grant, tablet pc on June 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have been applying for the Hewlett-Packard technology in the classroom grant for the last two years, and both years have failed to secure the grant. My dean, noticing this, told me that he will give me money to buy Tablet PCs for the classroom. Since the dean cannot fund the full amount of the [...]
