| Dsc 121 | Fall 2000 | Rev 10 Sep 99 |

01 Foundation Meeting Notes



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14:40 Mon 24 Aug

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Coordinator's Welcome
    Your name
    Your email
    
    Section coaches and assistants
    (1) Sharma Akshay   (Ind TA)
    (2) Lyn Chargualaf  (Grd/Int TA)
    (3) Liz Damore      (Int FA)
    (4) Thomas Detrie   (Fnd Faculty)
    (5) Chris Horracks  (Int TA)
    (6) Michael Kroeger (Grd FA)
    (7) Raphael Ngotie  (Ind TA)
    (8) Paul Randall    (Ind Faculty)

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One-minute Celebrity List

First two dichotomies

    Personal | Professional

    Awareness | Experience


        Library resources - books and periodicals
        Internet resources
        Professional Organizations w/student memberships
        College Organizations

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Electronic Syllabus Overview (general to specific)

    (01) Foundation Title Page
    (02) Hurwitz measures
    (03) Committe Report
    (04) Course Descriptions
    (05) Course Policies
    (06) Evaluation Criteria
    (07) Faculty
    (08) Methodology
    (09) Performance Expectations
    (10) Self-evaluation
    (11) Glossary
    (12) Reading
    (13) Studio 08 Work Target
    (14) Supplies for DSC 121
    (15) Lockers (see Scheatzle memo)

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Obligations
    Allocation and Selection
        7 days x 24 hrs = 168 hrs wk
        168 hrs wk - 56 sleep hrs = 112 hrs to allocate
    
    Course Load and Courses
        DSC 101
        DSC 121
      x DSC 236 x - not for first semester
        Eng 101
        Mat 117
        GS: people courses, writing/speaking, computer science.
        Check Business minor 
    
    Work Load Formula
        CrHr x 3 = B
        CrHr x 4 = A
       (CrHr x 3) + Wrk = 60 hrs wk maximum
        (15 x 3) + 15 = 60 hrs wk
        (15 x 4) + 15 = 72 hrs wk

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How we do work
    D = demonstrate (your ability)
    S = support     (your decisions - w/o preference)
    C = communicate (your knowledge)
    
Think Think Think
  
Think about what you do and how you do it;
Think about what you say and how you say it;
Think about what you think and how you think it.

Three learning ways
    1) from your efforts
    2) from your colleagues
    3) from your faculty

Cooperative matching effort
    X------------>O  Teacher centered
    X----->|<-----O  Meeting halfway
    X--->     <---O  Matching effort
    X--------------  Cooperative overlapping matching effort
    --------------O> 
    
    three people types:
    (1) those who make things happen; 
    (2) those who let things happen; and 
    (3) those who ask 'what happened?'
    
Project and time management
    concurrent projects
    | acceptance -> flex time -> targets -> closure -> END |

    Keep up vs catch up

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First assignments

Interval exercise
    1) draw a 100mm square divided into nine equal vertical intervals
    2) draw a second 100mm square of nine alternating black and white equal
           vertical intervals

[Note: black paper and white paper may be substituted.]


Polyhedra exercise
    1) make a model of one regular polyhedron (5)

[Note: students choose size and material - discuss those decisions.]


Color exercise
    1) paint one 25mm square with black and one with white,
           and one each of the six colors. Organize the color squares
           into two groups of three
    2) mix equal amounts of the six colors and paint one 25mm square
           with the resulting color

Technical lettering (see ANSI/ASME Y14.2M-1992 standards)

Materials for the first assignments are:
    1)  Plaka or gesso
    2)  Designer color
    3)  Drawing paper
    4)  Pencil

[Note: assignments are due for discussion the following studio.]

Additional Assignment
    Establish an ASU email account
    Establish an ASU www homepage

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Calendar
    Week 2 Studios 03 and 04
    Week 3 Studios 05 and 06
    Week 4 Studios 07 and 08
    Week 5 Studios 09 and 10
    Week 6 Studios 11 and 12
    Week 7 Studios 13 and 14
    Week 8 Studios 15 and 16

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Announcements

MW Studio 05 and Meeting 03 excused for Labor Day

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Questions

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