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3.00 Credits
Preparatory course for the INNOVATE Conference for undergraduate and graduate engineering, science and technical students. The course examines the relationships between technology, globalization, and leadership in the contemporary marketplace. Student delegates spend five days in each of two locations in Asia, interactive with key business, academic, and government leaders. They also visit a range of engineering, scientific, and technical companies abroad. Students develop an understanding of the history, government, and politics of the host countries and this enables them to examine the impact of globalization in Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the evaluation of alternative investment opportunities with emphasis on engineering projects and capital infrastructure. Time value of money concepts are developed in the context of detailed project evaluation and presentations. In addition, concepts and applications of risk analysis and investment under uncertainty are introduced. Requires oral and written presentations by students.
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1.00 Credits
Participants scope a variety of engineering design projects what will be candidates for the next semester's ENGI 120 students. Basic principles of engineering design will be discussed, toward the description of tractable but meaningful design projects. Students will also survey models of leadership and mentoring styles. Admission to this class is by application, with students expected to enroll the ENGI 316 apprentice leaders program the following semester. See rcel.rice.edu for the application deadline and procedure.
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3.00 Credits
Students hone their leadership by devising, organizing, and mentoring substantial semester-long engineering design experiences for the students enrolled in ENGI 120. Apprentice leaders gain a deeper understanding of the engineering design process, develop communication skills through formal and informal presentations to the ENGI 120 students, and obtain leadership experience in the context of engineering problem solving. Participants will generally be drawn from the previous semester’s ENGI 315 students.
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3.00 Credits
In this communications course designed for engineering PM students, the approach will be experiential and interactive, with in-class exercises, presentations and analyses. The focus will be on your practicing and refining the written and oral presentation skills you will need in your professional career. You should be prepared to participate in class and must be comfortable writing and speaking English. Grading will be satisfactory/unsatisfactory. Preference will be given to professional masters students.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the evaluation of alternative investment opportunities with emphasis on engineering projects and capital infrastructure. Time value of money concepts are developed in the context of detailed project evaluation and presentations. In addition, concepts and applications of risk analysis and investment under uncertainty are developed. Requires oral and written presentations by students. Grad students will have an extra case study to perform.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A course to inform secondary school science teachers about engineering: the design and problem solving process, incorporating design into science curriculum, the engineering profession and practice, and educational routes into technical and engineering careers. Summer workshops and academic year activities.
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0.00 Credits
This non-credit seminar is open to engineers writing a Master's or PhD thesis. Topics include thesis content and organization, concise and persuasive written and oral communication, plagiarism and paraphrase, and effective visuals. Two sections of 14 students; instructor permission required. See http://engr.rice.edu and click on Thesis-writing Seminar for application details.
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3.00 Credits
This freshman seminar is an exploration of the genre of Autobiography, from St. Augustine to the present, and serves as an introduction to critical issues of narrative and how it is deployed within different autobiographical texts. Emphasis on writing clear prose and development of literary analytical skills is also a primary component of this course. Open to first year students only, any and all others will be removed.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to global literary studies and critical writing in which students study a range of literatures in English. The subject is twentieth-century modernism and its successors; postmodernism; and postcolonialism.
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