Lectures, Readings, Assignments, & Solutions

Lecture Date	Background Materials	Lecture Notes Print and take to class	Sample Problem	Homework	Lecture Videos
Wed Aug 18		Lec 1.0 : Introduction
Fri Aug 20	Notes 1.1	Lec 1.1 : Units	1.1	Online: 1-1
Mon Aug 23	Notes 1.2	Lec 1.2 : Sig. Digits	1.2	Online: 1-2
Wed Aug 25		P1: Personality Types
Fri Aug 27	Notes 1.3	Lec 1.3 : Statistics, Ratios	1.3	Online: 1-3
Mon Aug 30	Notes 1.4	Lec 1.4 : Ratios, Estimation	1.4	Online: 1-4
Wed Sep 1		P2: Civil, Co-op
Fri Sep 3		Science Quiz 1
Mon Sep 6		Labor Day (no class)
Wed Sep 8	Notes 2.1	Lec 2.1 : Vectors	2.1	Online: 2-1
Fri Sep 10	Notes 2.2	Lec 2.2 : Vectors	2.2	Online: 2-2
Mon Sep 13	Notes 2.3	Lec 2.3 : Forces	2.3	Online: 2-3
Wed Sep 15	Notes 2.4	Lec 2.4 : 2D Equilibrium	2.4
Fri Sep 17		Science Quiz 2
Mon Sep 20	Notes 3.1	Lec 3.1 : Velocity	3.1	Online: 3-1
Wed Sep 22	Notes 3.2	Lec 3.2 : Acceleration	3.2	Online: 3-2
Fri Sep 24	Notes 3.3	Lec 3.3 : SVA Plots	3.3	Online: 3-3
Mon Sep 27	Notes 3.4	Lec 3.4 : Velocity/Accel	3.4	Online: 3-4
Wed Sep 29		P3: Biosystems, Industrial
Fri Oct 1		Science Quiz 3
Mon Oct 4	Notes 4.1	Lec 4.1 : Newton's Laws	4.1	Online: 4-1
Wed Oct 6	Notes 4.2	Lec 4.2 : Force & Mass	4.2	Online: 4-2
Fri Oct 8		P4: Design Process
Mon Oct 11	Notes 4.3	Lec 4.3 : F=ma	4.3	Online: 4-3
Wed Oct 13	Notes 4.4	Lec 4.4 : F=ma	4.4	Online: 4-4
Fri Oct 15		Fall Break (no class)
Mon Oct 18	Notes 4.5	Lec 4.5 : Const Accel	4.5	Online: 4-5
Wed Oct 20		P5: Chemical, Nuclear
Fri Oct 22		Science Quiz 4
Mon Oct 25	Notes 5.1	Lec 5.1 : Conservation of Mass	5.1	Online: 5-1
Wed Oct 27	Notes 5.2	Lec 5.2 : Work-Energy	5.2	Online: 5-2
Fri Oct 29	Notes 5.3	Lec 5.3 : Conservation of Energy	5.3	Online: 5-3
Mon Nov 1	Notes 5.4	Lec 5.4 : Conservation of Energy	5.4	Online: 5-4
Wed Nov 3		P6: Electical, Computer
Fri Nov 5		Science Quiz 5
Mon Nov 8	Notes 6.1	Lec 6.1 : Free Body Diagrams	6.1	Online: 6-1
Wed Nov 10	Notes 6.2	Lec 6.2 : Free Body Diagrams	6.2	Online: 6-2
Fri Nov 12		P7: Biomedical, Materials
Mon Nov 15	Notes 6.3	Lec 6.3 : Moments	6.3	Online: 6-3
Wed Nov 17	Notes 6.4	Lec 6.4 : Equilibrium	6.4	Online: 6-4
Fri Nov 19	Notes 6.5	Lec 6.5 : Equilibrium	6.5	Online: 6-5
Mon Nov 22	Notes 6.6	Lec 6.6 : Friction	6.6	Online: 6-6
Wed Nov 24		Lecture Cancelled
Fri Nov 26		Thanksgiving (no class)
Mon Nov 29		P9: Mechanical/Aerospace, Review
Thu Dec 2		Review Session
Wed Dec 8		Final Exam 2:45 - 4:45

Success Enhancement Program:

If you scored below a 70 on the first science quiz, we have designed a program to increase your
chances success in EF 101. The requirements for completion of the program are given here.

Homework Overview

Working the provided practice problems and the assigned homework is one of the best ways of ensuring your success in the science portion of EF101. Committing to doing this work is your responsibility. We will, however, guarantee that several problems on each quiz will be based upon these problems. To assist you, an online discussion board is provided and monitored by Engage faculty and staff. To help you evaluate your performance, we will provide a sample problem, along with a commented on-line video of us explaining the solution. If, after viewing these, you still don't understand the material, please attend a help session.

On-line HW list

Help Sessions

In our experience, students who regularly take advantage of these help sessions benefit tremendously from them; please do not wait until late in the semester, or until the night before a quiz, to begin attending them. In particular, students with weaker math skills (e.g., math ACT < 26) will benefit greatly by coming to help sessions beginning the first week of class and using those sessions to strengthen their math skills. If the Science portion of EF101 is challenging to you, we expect you to be at at least 1 session per week.

The discussion board is a good resource for getting help on science homework. Many times common questions have already been answered. The discussion site will be monitored on a frequent basis, approximately every 2-3 hours. This is a convenient means of getting help on straightforward issues. Longer issues will require you to come to a help session.

EF 101 Help Schedule
Math Tutoring Center
The Black Cultural Center also offers tutoring services -- contact them at 974.6861 if you are interested.

Other Resources

Most sophomore level (and higher) engineering instructors will expect you to be proficient at using spreadsheets. If you don't know how to use the spreadsheet program Excel, learn it to via one of the UT ITC Short Courses.

Conversion Factors (from NIST)
Conversion Factor Page

Lost & Found

Someone's jacket, book, or calculator invariably gets left behind. We'll leave found items with the Engage Program Resource Specialist, Janet Coward, in Estabrook 103. Please retrieve them from her.

Instructor Contact Information

Your EF101 Science Lecturers are Dr. Richard M. Bennett, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Mr. William R. Schleter, Instructor of Engineering Fundamentals. We are committed to the philosophy of the Engage Program, to engineering education in general, and to working with you during this semester.

Dr. Bennett has a half-time appointment to the Engage program during the fall semester. His other work responsibilities include teaching courses in his home departments, conducting research related to his areas of engineering expertise, and working on departmental, university, and national level committees related to many facets of engineering and education.

Our core commitment to you is to provide high-quality science content that will meet your unique learning needs. With 500 of you in the program, its unrealistic for us to have significant one-on-one time with each of you each week. We rely on electronic media (e-mail, web pages like this, etc.), the EF101 graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants, our colleagues, and the group help sessions to meet the varied needs of students in this large class.We strongly encourage you to make use of all these modes of learning..