OPTI 6110/8110 Optics Seminar

Fall Semester 2007

Instructor:  Angela Davies, Office:  208 Grigg

 704 687 8135, adavies@uncc.edu

Office Hour: Tuesday 3-4 pm

 

RECOMMENDED MATERIAL: 

 

·         Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences by Philip Bevington, D. Keith Robinson .

  

  • The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid (Paperback)
    by Michael Alley

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

  • Understand resources and research tools available through the Atkins Library
  • Develop presentation skills and use of Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Develop writing skills
  • Understand the role of ethics in engineering and science
  • Understand Intellectual Property at UNC Charlotte
  • Develop basic data reduction and uncertainty analysis skills
  • Introduction to project management

 

GRADING: 

Attendance                                                                            40%

Writing Exercise                                                                  15%

Literature Search Presentation                                         15%

Evaluation Presentation                                                       15%    

Data reduction and uncertainty analysis                          15%

 100%

 

COURSE POLICY: 

o        Grades are assigned using a 10-point grading scale: A = 90.0-100.0, B = 80.0-89.9, etc.   

o        LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

 

You must do your own work on all assignments.  Copying the work of others without giving proper credit is plagiarism and a violation of the UNCC Code of Student Academic Integrity.  This includes copying information found on the internet.

 

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:  Students have the responsibility to know and observe the requirements of The UNCC Code of Student Academic Integrity (Catalog p. 275).  This code forbids cheating, fabrication or falsification of information, multiple submission of academic work, plagiarism, abuse of academic materials, and complicity in academic dishonesty.  Any special requirements or permission regarding academic integrity in this course will be stated by the instructor, and are binding on the students.  Academic evaluations in this course include a judgment that the student’s work is free from academic dishonesty of any type; and grades in this course therefore should be and will be adversely affected for academic dishonesty.  Students who violate the code can be expelled from UNCC.  The normal penalty for first offense is zero credit on the work involving dishonesty and further substantial reduction of the course grade.  In almost all cases the course grade is reduced to F.  Students are expected to report cases of academic dishonesty to the course instructor.