EGE1001- HW#6:  Engineering Disciplines and Grand Challenges

EGE1001- HW#6:  Engineering Disciplines and Grand Challenges

EGE 1001 – Fundamentals of Engineering Design

HW#6:  Engineering Disciplines and Grand Challenges

Assigned:  Week 5

Part 1 (top + potential reference list) due: Week 6  – 5 points

Part 2 (final paper) due:  Week 8 – 45 points

 

Engineering Grand Challenges Paper

Our class engineer has been asked to help with a BIG research project to make a proposal for a think tank grant on tackling one of the Engineering Grand Challenges!  If the company that the engineer is working for wins the grant, they will be able to fund a new Grand Challenges department that our engineer hopes to get a job in right out of graduation.

As part of this research, everyone on the project team is going to submit their research, and the best ones will be used as a foundation for the grant proposal!  Our CE hopes theirs gets picked and they can land a job in the grand challenges research division for this company on graduation!

 

NOTE: This is an individual assignment.  Do NOT work on this with other students in the class.

 

Assignment instructions:

Refer to the document distributed in class:  Introduction to the Engineering Grand Challenges as well as the NAE website: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.aspx.

Part 1 (due week 6):

Select one of the Engineering Grand Challenges (EGC) that you want to write your paper on. 

Determine a list of potential references that you plan to use for this paper and that follow the requirements laid out in this document. 

List both of these on the worksheet on the last page of this document and submit this on week 6.

 

Part 2 (due week 8):

Write a three-page (minimum, four-page maximum) informative and reflective essay about the Engineering Grand Challenges topic that you chose in part 1. (Page count does not include cover page or reference page.)  First, read the online documents listed about your selected challenge and watch any affiliated videos.  The essay should include your thoughts on the findings of the NAE and your opinion on the engineering profession and our future.  

 

Elements that must be included in your essay include:

• Cover page – Include Paper Title, Course, Date, your name

• Motivation (why is the EGC important to solve?)

– This section should be a one paragraph summary of what is listed online in YOUR OWN WORDS

• Background and Technical Issues

– Current status of the problem

– Limitations of existing technologies, processes, etc.

– Ultimate technical goal

– Proposed engineering solutions and obstacles

– This section should include specific references to the NAE website and video as well as at least one additional reference from 2008 or more recent.

• Identification of which engineering disciplines could contribute to the solution and how they can each contribute

– This section will be a paragraph that discussed which engineering disciplines will have to collaborate to solve this challenge.

-Engineering disciplines were investigated during the in-class activity and include any of the degree programs offered at Lawrence Tech (such as mechanical, electric, biomedical, robotics, etc.) and others that are not offered (such as chemical or nuclear engineering).  You may need to do some additional investigation into the various disciplines to complete this section.

• Identification of how your declared or likely engineering major discipline could contribute to the solution

-This section should be a paragraph about your major and how your chosen engineering discipline will work to solve this challenge.  This should include at least one additional reference (from 2008 or more recently) specific to your major

• Personal reflection

– This section should be a one or two paragraph personal reflection on the challenge you selected including why you selected the challenge, your motivation for selection, how you hope to contribute to the solution, and your feelings about this challenge and this assignment.

• References

– References should include specific references to NAE website as well as at least two additional unique references as mentioned above.  Use a standard reference format such as MLA, Chicago, or APA.  Choose one format for all references in this section.

 

Besides content, your essay will be graded for grammar and spelling.  The paper must be a minimum of three typed pages (maximum of four pages) with 1.5-line spacing.  As noted above, besides the NAE references, the paper must include at least two different literature references.  Include a References page and Cover page which do not count toward page length.  You can have more than the minimum number of citations, but at least two of your non-NAE citations must be from 2008 or more recently.  While your NAE reference will be website based, your additional two references cannot be web-based.  On-line journals are not considered web-based references.  If you include more than the minimum number of references, only two of them can be website citations.  Be certain that any web-based reference is accurate and up-to-date.  Anybody can put anything on the Internet, whether it is truth or not.

Warning!  Do not just copy sections of the references you use and place them into your paper implying the copied sections are your own work!  That is plagiarism, is against the Academic Honor Code, and will result in immediate failure of this assignment.  It can also result in failure of this course!  Do not do this!!  Write in your own words.  If you do copy a portion of a document, you must use quotations, reference that source, and cite it appropriately.

Summary of Paper Format

 

Number of pages:  At least three full pages (not including cover page or references page) with 1.5-line spacing.  Page count shall not exceed four pages.

Font and point size:  Calibri font at 12 points.

Margins:  One inch top, bottom, and each side

Line spacing:  1.5-line spaced

Literature citations: The paper must have your NAE citations and at least two additional different literature citations on a separate page.  You can have more than this minimum number of citations, but the two non-NAE citations must be from 2008 or more recently.  You can include no more than two web site non-NAE citations in your paper, but understand that web site citations are not counted as the two non-NAE citations minimum.

Use a standard citation format (e.g., MLA, Chicago, APA, etc.).  Pick one format and be consistent.

Paper structure:

Cover Page – Include Paper Title, Course, Date, your name.

Paper Body – Include the elements denoted on the previous page.

References Page – follow the format described above.

 

 

HW#6, part 1 – Interim Grand Challenges Paper Report (due week 6)

 

Student Name:

 

1.  Topic (i.e., the Grand Challenge you picked):

 

 

 

2.  List of potential references.  (You may not be using all of them, but list what you have found so far; you can always add more later.)  Minimum references:  NAE websites and two non-web-based from 2008 or more recently.  Please use a standard reference format to list them here such as MLA, Chicago, or APA.