• Announcements

  • Last updated June 3, 2003:

    Submission packages from Winter 2003 and previous terms are available for pick-up in my office, Room 261 Paterson Hall.

    To pick up your package you need to e-mail me and make an appointment. Please note that I am not teaching in the summer and, therefore, may not be on campus every day.

  Links to course materials (including Tentative Course Calendar)

  Researching and documenting sources

  Links to tutorials on how to avoid plagiarism

  Links to engineering web sites

Researching and documenting sources

• Carleton University Library Catalogue
• Carleton Library web site: Searching for and evaluating information on the Internet
• University of California at Berkeley Internet Tutorial: Finding Information on the Internet
• Sample IEEE citation style
• Engineering Communication Centre, University of Toronto: Web site for IEEE citation style
• Links to tutorials on how to avoid plagiarism
  • University of Toronto, Writing Support
  • University of Toronto, Engineering Communication Centre
  • Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. -- Self-Test

Winter 2003

• Introduction to Course Project
• Print out copies of the "Feedback on Oral Presentation of Assigned Article" form (an MSWord file) and keep 3-5 forms in your binder.
• Request for Proposals (RFP)
• Checklist for Proposals
• Proposals: A reminder
  • Evaluation Summary for Proposals (MS Word File)
• Progress Report Assignment
  • Evaluation Summary for Written Progress Reports (MS Word File)
• Checklist for Oral Reports on Progress
• Checklist for Written Progress Reports
• Guidelines for Feedback on Final Oral Presentation
• Completion Report Template
• Guidelines for the Submission of Completion Reports
  • Evaluation Summary for Completion Reports (can be used as a guideline) (MS WORD file)
• BONUS ASSIGNMENT
   

• LINK TO INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA SERVICES
• LINK TO ABBREVIATIONS

Classes and office hours on March 17, 18, and 19, 2000 are cancelled.

Wednesday, 26 February 2003, office hours are canceled. If you have any questions, please e-mail me.

Evaluation summary for the written progress report is now available (can be used as an additonal guide to the assignment). MS Word file

Please make sure that your are following the most updated versions of the Progress Report Assignment and Checklists for Oral Presentation of Progress and for Written Progress Report.

Evaluation Summary for Proposals in MS Word is now available.

• The week of March 17, 18 will be dedicated to individual and group homework on Final Oral Presentations and Drafts of Completion Reports
• Last class (Class 12) will be held on April 7 for section T and April 8 for section N during regular class time.

You can pick up your marked submission packages in my office, Room 261 Paterson Hall, during my office hours or by appointment.

I strongly advise you to proceed in the following order:

• obtain your course grade via the touch-tone telephone system
• pick up your package
• read all my comments on the enclosed form and on the reports/manuals carefully

NOTE to "CONNECT" groups: please delegate one person who will pick up the Manual for each group. Make sure that all group members have equal access to my comments written on the Manual. A summary and a grade for the collective effort are presented on each individual form enclosed in each individual package. 

For class 6: Visit http://www.peo.on.ca/Ethics/code_of_ethics.html to familiarize yourselves with the Professional Engineers Ontario Code of Ethics

ATTENTION Project Partners: before starting to work on proposal drafts, make sure that you have communicated with your project partners (via e-mail, telephone, or in person) and agreed on what you are planning to do. If you intend to work on a group project, the purpose of the project, its title, and research questions should be the same for all students in the group.

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  Classes:

Winter 2003

Section	Day	Time	Location
T	Monday	5:30 p. m. - 8:30 p. m.	201 Paterson Hall
N	Tuesday	2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	306 Dunton Tower

Note that 

• the word limit for the proposal is 350 words (see the RFP)
• proposals should be typed in font 12 (not more than 15 characters per inch, or six characters per centimeter) and double-spaced (not more than four lines per inch, or two lines per centimeter)

You must

• indicate your course section clearly in the signature block of the letter of transmittal
• indicate your student number in the signature block of the letter of transmittal
• indicate all attachments/enclosures in the end notations of the letter of transmittal
• provide an informative abstract of the proposal which reflects the content of the proposal (rather than being a brief description of your project)
• provide in-text citations and corresponding references to the sources in IEEE format

(listed alphabetically)

Winter 2003

For weekly preparation for classes, it is best to follow links to lecture notes provided in the Tentative Course Calendar

 

Abstracts and Executive Summaries

Business Correspondence, Cover Letters/Letters of Transmittal/Memoranda

Comparison of Essays and Reports

Engineering Reports

International Communications

Introduction to the Course

Job Applications (Resumes and Interviews) and related links

Lab Reports

Meeting Documents

Oral Presentations

Progress Reports

Proposals

Referencing

Writing Process in Engineering

 

• Canadian Council of Professional Engineers
• Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
  • Student Membership -- FREE!!!
  • PEO Code of Ethics
• IEEE
  • Student Membership
  • IEEE Spectrum Magazine