Class Time and Place: 12:00 noon - 12:50 pm, MW, 393 CB
Instructor: Professor Thomas H. Fletcher
Office: 350K CB;
Phone: 378-6236
Office Hours: As available, or by appointment.
Goals:
1. To provide training and experience in verbal presentations of technical material
2. To provide familiarity with the Chemical Engineering literature
3. To expose students to a variety of additional engineering topics
Attendance:
The learning in this course results from participating, observing,
and analyzing the presentations given in class. Each student
is, therefore, required to be present at all class sessions.
If a student must miss a class, he/she will please see me as
soon as possible to arrange make-up work.
Participation:
Each student will each give two 15-minute seminars on a
chemical engineering topic. Students will be expected to dress
as professional engineers during their presentations (suits
for the men, dresses or dressy pant suits for the women). In
addition, each student must fill out an evaluation form on
each speaker each day of class.
Seminar Approval:
Each seminar topic must be approved by me about 2 weeks
before the presentation date. The topic will be based on an
article which the student will select from the suggested list
of journals (or another journal) or from research or work the
student has done. The topic/presentation must involve sufficient
technical content (mathematics, graphical material, mechanistic
reasoning, etc.) to challenge the presenter to do more than a
simple qualitative overview of the subject.
Suggested Journals:
AIChE Journal Chemical Engineering Science
I/EC Fundamentals Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
I/EC Process Design & Development J. of Electrochem. Soc.
I/EC Product Research & Development J. of Applied Electrochemistry
Advanced Preparation:
2 weeks before get approval of presentation (submit title to
professor)
1 week before Advanced preparation approval form
outline of presentation
rough draft of visual aids
2 questions to be answered
2 days before hard copy to secretaries for overhead preparation
(up to ten overheads per presentation provided by department*)
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*You are also allowed to use the department
computer/LCD plate with an overhead projector or 35 mm slides,
however you will need to make your own arrangements for these
media.