ES 497, Engineering Science Colloquium (1)

 

Instructor

Office in Salazar Blg

Office hours

Email

Tel

Dr. Ali Kujoory

Room 2005

 

Mon 11 am-12 pm or by appointment

ali.kujoory@ieee.org

(707) 664-2030

 

Course Description:  Lecture: 1 hour; laboratory: 0 hours. Series of lectures on topics of interest in the relevant fields of engineering.  A maximum of 1 unit can be applied to the ES major. The students may not miss more than two presentations. A brief summary of each presentation must be submitted after the presentation. The course grade is decided on evaluation of these reports. Cr/NC only.

 

Course Objective:  To keep keep students abreast with the advancement of science and technology developments and future trends in various high tech fields including communications, computational biology, computing, environmental studies, networking, photonics, and robotics.

 

Prerequisite: None

 

Textbook:  None

 

Course Venue:   The students in the class meet periodically to discuss what they learned from the lectures (seminars).  After attending each seminar, the student is supposed to write a summary of the talk (at least 300 words) on the lecture attended and write his/her observations.  The report must be submitted by 5 PM 2 days following each seminar via email to ali.kujoory@ieee.org.  The report should be formally formatted in MS Word and include the students’ name, date of the report, the date, title, and the name of speaker, plus the name of the department hosting the event.

 

Lectures

Days

Time (~1 hr)

Location

URL

 

Engineering Science Seminars

1st & 3rd Thursdays

Lecture at 4:30 PM, Coffee at 4:00 PM

Salazar 2009A

http://www.sonoma.edu/engineering/eslectureseries.shtml

What Physicists Do

Mondays

4:00 PM, Coffee 3:30 PM

Darwin 103

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/wpd/

Computer Science Colloquium

Thursdays

 

12 PM

Salazar 2016

http://www.cs.sonoma.edu/cs_dept/events/CS_F08_Colloquium.pdf

 

Lecture Attendance:  Attendance is mandatory at least in ten lectures that would include the ES lectures.

 

Tentative Class Discussion Schedule:  Selected Mondays 11 AM – 12 PM:  Feb 5, Feb 19, Mar 19, & Apr. 23 in Salazar 2005.

 

Class Participation:  Attendance is mandatory.  There will be no excused absences except in the case of emergencies that could be substantiated.

 

Grades:  The course grade is decided on evaluation of the reports submitted by the student after each presentation.