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: Tuesday and Thursday 5:30pm-6:30pm
    • Location: Engineering-2, Room 237A
    • Phone: (831) 588-4252
    • e-mail: gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu

 

  • Teaching Assistant: Michael Fahmie
    • Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00pm-3:00pm
    • Location: Café Pergolesi
    • AIM: Toper Rogue
    • e-mail: pengo@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Class meetings
    • Location:          Engineering-2 192
    • Time:                Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00 - 8:45 PM
  • Assignments:

 

Assignment

Rough Draft Due

Final Due

1. Resume and Cover Letter

June 23

June 28

2. Algorithm Description

July 5

July 7

3. Article Database UI

July 19

July 21

4. Project Proposal Memo

 

July 28

5. Document Specification

 

July 28

6. Survey Article

August 2

August 4

7. Poster Presentations

 

August 9 or 11

8. Progress Report

 

August 9 or 11

9. Final Project

August 18

August 25

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.

 

 

 

  • 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.

 

  • Poster Presentations:

 

August 9:

 

Nagenast, Todd

Kirkham, Michael

Frijas, Ryan

Rollins, Matthew

Chakarwarti, Nimish

Zhu, Yu-Ping

Holsworth, John

Norouzi, Mohammad

Schoos, Paul

Chaney, Scott

Kojima, Christopher

Lea, Jared

Ponce, Michael

White, Christopher

Goenawan, Andre

Moore, Nicholas

Kurey, Zach

He, Weikun Jimmy

Frick, John

Shusta, Alexander

Nguyen, Anh-Duy

Gupta, Archana

 

August 11:

 

Perez, Jonathan

Huang, Dehui

Patel, Vikash

Szeto, Edmond

Rhodewalt, Jason

Delwiche, Brian

Palaganas, Charles

Liu, Karen

McVey, Christopher

Hsu, Jane

Cisneros, Arturo

Kwong, Justin

Santos, Joel

Kistler, Andrew

Kam, Shan

Faerber, Jonathan

Piper, Brandon

Brooks, Kareena

Markowitz, Adam

Healy, Daniel

Pahal, Eric

Calayag, Alfred

 

 

The Presentations: TBA

gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu