Weekly Schedule - Winter 1999 (Tuesdays at Naperville)

Date Activity~Assignment

Week 1
Introduction and Groundwork~Readings
 Science and its Application - Socially Relevant Issues
 Introductions
 Syllabus
 Discussion of Assignments, reading for competence
 Journaling

Week 2 Opening Exercise - Names 
 Administration
 Concepts of Oral Presentations~Mini presentation 
 Discuss the readings
 Sample Mini PWB presentation
 Sample Mine PW2 presentation

Week 3 
 Library at Naperville
 Opening Exercise-Birthday Experiment
 Trade Journals
 Journal Assignment - write one page on Mini Presentation(s)
 Mini Presentations
 Discussion

Week 4 
 Opening Exercise-What impressed you Technologically?
 Discuss Mini Presentations
 Digital vs Analog
 Mechanical vs Electrical
 Precision vs Accuracy
 Silicon Presentation
 Darwinian View of Technology
 Diffusion
 Video - Steve Jobs demonstrates NEXT
 Handout Essay Questions

Week 5  
 Essay Questions Due
 Development of Computers
 Quality
 Different eras of computing
 Scientific Philosophy
 Discuss Projects

Week 6 Handback Essay Questions
 Computers and the Workplace
 Automate and Informate
 The Value of Information
 Outline due

Week 7 Presentations~Individual Projects
Week 8 Student Presentations~Individual Projects
Week 9 Student Presentations~Individual Projects

Week 10 Wrap up

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