| Course introduction | |
|---|---|
| Course name | Technical English for Electrical Engineering |
| Credits | 2 |
| Instructor | Bahram Vazirnezhad- Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering- Bio-Electric |
| Office hours | See office hours |
| General purpose | To increase English language proficiency of students in reading, writting and expressing technical ideas in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| Course outline | Article review
Listening to technology reports Oral presentation Writting essays |
| Required material | Electronic version of material are available HERE and hardcopies will be made available as required |
| Main reference | IEEE Spectrum |
| Evaluation | Class activity and effective presence 20%
Presented lecture quality 20% Written essays quality 20% Final exam 40% |
| Notes | - These are example essay topics for the final exam: 1- Can Nanotechnology relief the tight competition on controlling the earth resources, by offering replacement solutions for rare material? 2- What's the impact of technology on creativity? Does it lock down creativity? Control it? Or boost the creativity? 3- Does it make sense to invest on space exploration projects while there are a plenty of unresolved problems in the earth from pollution and global warming to food shortage and starving people? (3-Aug-2010) - Saturday 17-July-2010, we will also have essay writting on one of the following subjects: 1- Does the internet make you smart or stupid? Toughtful or forgetful? 2- Do robots take people's jobs? 3- Can we predict how people will interact with robots? (15-July-2010) - Session 7 and 8 in the below table will be assigned to Oral presentations rather than article review and writting. So we will have our first group presentations on Wednesday 14th July (Day 7) and the second group presentations on Saturday 17th of July (Day 8). (10-July-2010) - For Wednesday (7-July-2010) please DL and print pp. 70-77 of Cambridge-Action-Plan and bring with you to the calss. Please have your previous articles with you. (5-July-2010) - Please print the article "Voice Over IP" (Feb 2010 IEEE Spectrum pp. 42-47) and bring it to the class for Monday 4th of July. You will need "Viterbi" article as well. We will listen and transcribe some audio files in this session. (3-July-2010) - Saturday 3rd of July the class is cancelled because the University is closed for all classes. (30-June-2010) |
| Course syllabus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Theme | Description | Activities | Notes |
| 1 | Course introduction | The purpose, content and organization of the course
Required material; Evaluation; Preparing schedule for presentations etc. |
Course review | |
| 2 | IEEE Spectrum | Reading technical articles from IEEE Spectrum | Article review | |
| 3 | Science & technology | Listening to audio files | Listening and transcribing | |
| 4 | Electrical Eng. | Guidelines for writting essays | Writting practice | |
| 5 | IEEE Spectrum | Reading technical articles from IEEE Spectrum | Article review | |
| 6 | Computing & IT | Presenting lectures | Oral presentation and class discussion | |
| 7 | Electrical Eng. | Writting essays | Essay writing (1) | Day 7 (Wed 14-July) is assigned to 1st group oral presentations. 1st group should have their slides ready for Day 7. |
| 8 | IEEE Spectrum | Reading technical articles from IEEE Spectrum | Article review | Day 8 (Sat 17-July) is assigned to 2nd group oral presentations. 3rd group can also have their speech here, if they wish. You will also write and essay on one of the following subjects: 1- Does the internet make you smart or stupid? Toughtful or forgetful? 2- Do robots take people's jobs? 3- Can we predict how people will interact with robots? |
| 9 | Biomedical & Bionics | Presenting lectures | Oral presentations and class discussion | |
| 10 | Electrical Eng. | Writting essays | Essay writing (2) | Oral presentations and article review |
| 11 | IEEE Spectrum | Reading technical articles from IEEE Spectrum | Article review | Oral presentations and article review |
| 12 | Telecommunications | Presenting lectures | Oral presentations and class discussion | |
| 13 | Electrical Eng. | Writting essays | Essay writing (3) | |
| 14 | IEEE Spectrum | Reading technical articles from IEEE Spectrum | Article review | |
| 15 | Control & Robotics | Presenting lectures | Oral presentations and class discussions | |