Fall 2011 Schedule TTH v2

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Fall 2011 Schedule TTH

Tuesday, August 23

Discuss Turnitin.com and BlackboardThursday, August 25

Discuss Presentations; go through PPT on presentations (2 of them) Read about presentations in Chapter 17 of PBTW. Read about correspondence in Chapter 18 of PBTW Discuss Policy Statement and Schedule questions.

Tuesday, August 30

Response Journal 1: Broad Education due today. Finish discussing PPT and presentations. Discuss semester project. Give time to work on group presentations. Sign up for When Technology Fails (WTF) presentations.

Thursday, September 1

Discuss technical definitions (read Chapter 3 of PBTW).

Tuesday, September 6 Group Presentations 1-3.


Group Presentations 4-6. Response Journal 2: Ethics due today.

Tuesday, September 13

Discuss plagiarism and documentation (read Chapter 2 and Chapter 14 in PBTW). Go overdocumentation and plagiarism PPTs.

Milestone 1: technical definition due today. Peer review technical definition in class. Each student submits to the Discussion Board and

students agree on peer review partners. Then the partners downloads the draft, makes

comments via MS Words Comment feature, and uploads the draft with c omments as a

reply to the original Discussion Board post. These posts do NOT count as the required

Discussion Board posts.


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Draft of Milestone 2: Letter of Intent due today. Peer Review Milestone 2: Letter of intent. Discuss scheduling/project management. Discuss technical definitions (read Chapter 3 of PBTW). WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Tuesday, September 20

Library Research Day. Final Milestone 2: Letter of intent due to Assignments tab today.


Response Journal 3: Contemporary Issues and Ethics due today. Library Research Day. Read chapter 4 in PBTW.

Tuesday, September 27 Draft of Milestone 3: Schedule due today Discuss abstracts and front matter. Peer Review Milestone 3: Schedule.


Final Milestone 3: Schedule due to Assignments tab today. WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Tuesday, October 4

Draft of Milestone 4: Specifications due today.


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Peer Review Milestone 4. Discuss figures and tables. Read Chapter 15 in PBTW.

Thursday, October 6

Presentation on resumes from Engineering Career Center.

Final Milestone 4: Specifications due today. Discuss Subject/Verb agreement. Read Chapter 13 in PBTW. WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Tuesday, October 11

Draft of Milestone 5: Resume due today. Peer review Milestone 5: Resume. WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Discuss run-ons.Thursday, October 13

Final version of Milestone 5: Resume due today.

Tuesday, October 18

Draft of Milestone 6: Proposal due today. Peer Review Milestone 6: Proposal Discuss fragments. WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Thursday, October 20

Second draft of Milestone 6: Proposal due today. Discuss punctuation WTF presentations today: _______________________________________


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Tuesday, October 25

Third draft of Milestone 6: Proposal due today. Response Journal 4 due today. Discuss progress reports. Read chapter 7 of PBTW. WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Thursday, October 27

WTF presentations today: ______________________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday, November 1 Final version of Milestone 6: Proposal due today. WTF presentations today: _______________________________________

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Thursday, November 3

Response Journal 5: Implications of Engineering Decisions due today.

Tuesday, November 8

Draft of Milestone 7: Progress Report due today. Peer Review Milestone 7: Progress Report due today.


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Final version of Milestone 7: Progress Report due today.

Tuesday, November 15


Milestone 9: Technical Presentation due today.


Milestone 9: Technical Presentation due today.Thursday, November 24: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY


Milestone 9: Technical Presentation due today.Thursday, December 1

Semester Review Essay due to Assignments tab. Milestone 9: Technical Presentation due today. Milestone 8: Poster due to Assignments tab. For this poster, each of you will explain your

device in a single PowerPoint slide. See

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm for more information on

technical posters.

Final Exams

11:30-1:00 Class 11AM-2PM, Thursday, December 15

1:00-2:30 Class 2-5PM, Wednesday, December 14

2:30-4:00 Class 2-5PM Thursday, December 15

4:00-5:30 Class 5-8 PM Wednesday, December 15
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htmhttp://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm

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