ESG ES.729 (aka 21W.729) Haven
Engineering Communication in Context
In past eras, variants of this subject have been formally numbered ES.033 and 21W.732.
The Fall, 2018 details are undergoing flux at the start of the semester.
semester scale course materials that might help answer the
question Do I want to take this class?
project I materials
project II materials
movie essay materials
graphics exercise
reflective essays, myth & parachute essays
sample reports from the literature
readings
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poems
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FRDPARRC introduction
FRDPARRC tables are introduced at roughly the halfway mark, pg 29ish
- Graham and Slocum on PREP a method for working from
individual ideas to collaboration
- fonts article
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Oakley, Turning student groups into effective teams
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Philips, So you're going to be a member of a team
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questions to consider to create a team contract (courtesty of the MIT leadership folks)
- forming,
norming, storming, performing...
- multiple
intelligences
- meyers-briggs/learning
styles test (courtesty of the MIT leadership folks)
- pirate's
creed of ethics
- ASME
authors ethical standards
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ASME Code of Ethics for Engineers
- The
science of scientific writing
- Kishlansky
on reading
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active listening (courtesy of the MIT leadership folks & JoAnne
Yates)
- meeting
checklist (courtesty of the MIT leadership folks)
- Bates
academic integrity quiz
- Pogue
camera article
- Pogue,
image I
- Pogue,
image II
- J. Williams, Should
Ohm'sLaw Be Repealed?
- Petrosky
on Pencil Points
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exerpts from The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
- Who's
a Nerd, Anyway?
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The Moral Instinct
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Primo LeviArgon
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James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden
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exerpts from What Color is Your Parachute
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Boston Globe article on nerds
Starting points for literature searching
examples
of what might be found via electronic tentacles