CE185 Spring 2005

WELCOME TO TECHNICAL WRITING FOR COMPUTER ENGINEERS.

This is a required course for UCSC CE and EE students.

What would you like to know?

Instructor: Gerald B. Moulds

Office hours: Monday & Wednesday 3:00-4:30 at Engineering 2, #237A
Phone: (831) 588-4252
e-mail: gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu

Teaching Assistant: Angela Schmid

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:00 at Engineering 2, #234
(2:00 ending time is flexible, if students need more help.)
Also available for individual appointments. Feel free to ask.
e-mail: ang@soe.ucsc.edu

LIBRARY PUZZLE

Class meetings

Location: Porter 148
Time: Monday and Wednesday 5:00 - 6:45 PM

Assignments:

Assignment	Rough Draft Due	Final Due
1. Resume and Cover Letter	April 4	April 6
2. Algorithm Description	April 11	April 13
3. HTML Document	April 20	April 25
4. Project Proposal Memo		April 27
5. Library Puzzle		May 4
6. Survey Article	May 11	May 16 or 18
7. Poster Presentations		May 16 or 18
8. Doc Spec/Progress Report		May 16 or 18
9. Final Project	June 1	June 6
10. Oral Presentations		Throughout Quarter

Required texts

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. It is short, and you should read it all very early in the quarter.
The class workbook. This outlines many of the class goals and projects, but I will make many minor changes.
Periodic handouts and web documents: to be announced.

Please fill out the intake survey right away.

Newsgroup:

There is a newsgroup for the class: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CMPE185/
You will need a Yahoo ID to sign up.

Grades: Grades will be mostly (~80%) based on the total portfolio of work you turn in at the end of the class. This consists of five major writing projects (including your final project). Failure to turn in a major writing project will most likely result in a failing grade. To a lesser degree (~20%) your grade will be based on your oral presentation, poster project, a library puzzle, various in-class writing assignments, and your participation in class and online discussions.

Collaboration is good, and plagiarism is bad. Read more about it here.

PowerPoint presentations from lectures:

The Presentations:

Week of March 28 and March 30

No presentations scheduled.

Week of April 4 and 6

April 6 – Mark Oehlberg

Week of April 11 and 13

Monday – Cyrus Semani
Wednesday– Tony Huetter
Wednesday – Alex May
Wednesday – Chris Morrish

Week of April 18 and 20

Monday – Doug Gray
Monday – Daniel Rohrlick
Monday – Eddie Shing Chu
Monday – Tristan Johnson
Wednesday – Miriam Bellows
Wednesday - Anton Kulikov
Wednesday - Stacy Barbadillo

Week of April 25 and 27

Monday – Donald Chau
Monday – Danny Ramirez
Wednesday – Ben Blake
Wednesday – David Lock
Wednesday – Victor Missirian

Week of May 2 and May 4

No presentations scheduled.

Week of May 9 and 11

Monday - David Chattin-McNichols
Monday - Li-Te Hsu
Monday - Pallav, Gupta
Monday - Dan Pham
Wednesday – Nils Frantzell
Wednesday – William Wu
Wednesday - Mikhail Nasledov

Week of May16 and 18

No presentations scheduled.

Week of May 23 and 25

Monday – Matt Brown
Monday – Wesley Yip
Monday – Raul Cajias
Monday – Brendan Seaman
Wednesday – Daniel Passmore

Week of June 1. (May 30 is Memorial Day holiday)

No presentations scheduled.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

Monday, May 16

Blake, Benjamin
Brown, Matthew
Cajias, Raul Hector
Chattin-McNichols, David
Chu, Eddie
Hsu, Li-Te
Huetter, Anthony
Johnson, Tristan
Kulikov, Anton
Low, Matthew
Maher, Justin
Missirian, Victor
Munday, David
Nasledov, Mikhail
Oehlberg, Mark
Perazza, John
Pham, Dan
Seaman, Brendan
Semnani, Cyrus
Thomason, Brandon
Yip, Wesley

Wednesday, May 18

Barbadillo, Stacy Orhel
Bellows, Miriam
Benterou, Jason
Chau, Donald
Demilew, Thewodros
Frantzell, Nils
Gadomski, Stefan
Gray, Douglas
Gupta, Pallav
Johnson, Deborah
Katoa, Francis Martin
Lock, David
May, Alex
Morrish, Christopher
Odehnal, Petr
Passmore, Daniel
Prochnow, Garrett
Ramirez, Danny
Rensch, Jerrel
Rohrlick, Daniel
Wu, William

gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu