Does anyone have a course website with general information, syllabus, etc.? For the first offering, I had a "generic" site that gave students an idea of what the class was about. My class is optional (pass/no pass) so anything online can help students understand what they're getting into.
http://nd.edu/~mepnd/orientation/
I hope to update this page in the next couple of weeks with information / pictures from last year's class.
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Hi, Ivan and fellow coursemates
Your orientation course description is great. I am wondering if you can provide a short critique of the two references you have listed in course logistics.
-kamran
I hope that stating how I use the book suffices for the critique you're asking for.
I used the NRC's How People Learn book to provide the students with a framework of how they should develop their knowledge structure. The book has a few examples of how novices differ from experts. {I also use this book for training my "Academic Workshop" facilitators to help them provide reinforcement for this structure.} Landis covers some of this in his third edition (ch. 3-5).
The Engineering Your Future book provides excellent material that I found useful to share with the students in a section of each class I call "FYI: About Engineering". Specifically, I use the sections on a historical time line of engineering, problem solving methodologies, and sometimes profiles of engineers. Landis covers some of this in his chapter 2.
The NRC book is not intended as a text for orientation classes. The EYF books provide the content that we are tempted to use as the primary sources for our classes. From my experience in facilitating orientation classes, I found that these are better used as supplemental references. I decided to use Studying Engineering because it addresses aligning behaviors, attitudes, and approaches. These themes work best with the interactive nature we should be delivering our courses.
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