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Collaborative and Cooperative EFL for Engineers Project
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In
your English class, you’ll have the opportunity of participating in a
collaborative and cooperative experience that will give you the chance to
meet and work with students from different engineering areas. Here you have
some of the steps you’ll have to follow to have a great learning adventure. |
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Collaborative and Cooperative Project |
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Project tasks
Worksheets
1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8 |
1.
Join a group: Groups of 4 students.
One student per discipline. (Computer science, informatics, industrial and
electronics engineer). |
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Tutors |
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Name a leader responsible for the group.
What's a
leader? |
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Web cast |
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Talk to your teacher if conflicts come up. |
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Projects Archive |
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Assign specific responsibilities within the group. |
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Write rules and sign a group contract. |
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Design of English for Engineers curriculum |
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Each student is expected to participate actively in the project.
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Readings |
2.
Select a project: Think of a problem or a product and offer a
solution or a better service. Here you have what you have to consider when
putting your project together
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The
EFL Center Engineering Community |
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Title:
Write a title for your research project. Include the problem
and the solution (what do you suggest to make something better and for whom)
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"Intelligent
cooling system for a house" |
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Introduction:
Introduce your project- describe what it's about.
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Mission:
Describe
your group’s mission to solve the problem
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Vision:
Describe
your group’s vision of the project
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Objectives:
Write a general objective and three specific objectives
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Description of the problem:
Describe
what the problem is about.
Ask yourself:
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what’s the problem? Why is there a problem? |
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Solution to the problem:
Propose a solution to the problem. Consider the following
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What
can be done to solve the problem? What’s
the technology you’re proposing? How does this technology work? How can it
be used to solve the problem? How are you going to use it to solve the
problem? |
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Conclusion and recommendations:
Explain why
you think your proposal is the best and offer some recommendations. |
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Example of a project |
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3. Find a tutor.
Ask teachers in your school about ideas on how to put a project
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Teachers can be contacted through e-mail you don't have to meet him or her
face to face. You can have two tutors one to help you with your contents and
another to help you with corrections in English. To find info on
suitable tutors go to
Tutors.
Try to be in contact with your tutor during the whole project. Not only once. |
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4.
Work on your project activities.
You and your group will work collaboratively and cooperatively in different
tasks to complete your project. This task are the following: |
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Project Tasks
(intensive course) Jan-Feb 2006
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1st
Project Task
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Contract
and Tutors
17/01/06
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2nd
Project Task.
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Research
Task
24
–25/01/06
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3rd
Project Task
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Mini
Presentation
26 –
27/01/06
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4th
Project Task
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Web Cast
Report
31/01/06
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5th
Project Task
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Final
Presentation
01- 02
/02/06
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5.
Hand
in assignments on time. Project Tasks 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be evaluated within
the different terms. They are worth 2 credits of you term's grade. (1st,
2nd, 3rd, and 4th term). Project task 5 is the final presentation to see a
complete description of the different tasks go to
Project Tasks. If you have any questions, you can
contact your tutors or your English teacher at
dorismolero@yahoo.com
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