Engineering and Computing Community
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Learning Community Calendar 2008-2009
Meetings are from 7 to 9 pm each week at the designated meeting location.
September
- 2: Tour Swearingen Engineering Center and 300 Main Lab Tours
Location: Faculty Lounge (1A03), Swearingen Engineering Center
- 9: Tour Academic Centers for Excellence (ACE), Student Success Center, and Undergraduate Research Opportunities.
Location: Bates
- 16: Green Learning Community Orientation Meeting
Location: Green Quad Learning Center
- 23: FIRST LEGO Challenge build.
Location: Bates
Elect Leadership Team (ECC Leadership Team to plan 5 Fall open weekly meetings)
- 30: Engineering and Computing Student Organization Presentations.
Location: Bates
- Additional September Activities:
ECC Tailgating with CEC Student Organizations.
October
- 7: Presentation: Steve McNeill, Engineering Failures.
Collaborative Meeting with Green Learning Community
Location: Faculty Lounge (SWGN), Swearingen Engineering Center
ECC Leadership Team present plan for 5 Fall Semester weekly meetings.
- Note: Fall Break October 9-10, 2008
- 14: Presentation: Green Quad Building Design
Collaborative Meeting with Green Learning Community
Location: Green Quad Learning Center
- 21: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 28: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- Additional October Activities:
ECC Tailgating with CEC Student Organizations.
November
- 4: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 11: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
(Engineers Week February 15 – 21)
- 18: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 25: Thanksgiving Recess (No ECC Meeting)
Thanksgiving Recess November 26-30, 2008.
- Additional November Activities:
ECC Tailgating with CEC Student Organizations.
December
- 2: Final ECC Meeting and Activity for 1st Semester. ECC Leadership Team present plan for 14 Spring Semester weekly 2ndmeetings. (Last day of classes December 5)
Location: TBD
January
- 12: Classes begin
- 13: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 20: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
(Engineers Week February 15 – 21)
- 27: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
February
- 3: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 10: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 17: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
(Engineers Week February 15 – 21)
- 24: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
March
- 7: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 10: Spring Break (No ECC Meeting)
March 8-15, 2008
- 17: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 24: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 31: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
April
- 7: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 14: Meeting and Activity. Topic: TBA
Location: Bates
- 21: Meeting and Activity. Final ECC Meeting and Activity
- 27: Last day for classes.
Finals Week (April 29th – May 6th)
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The University of South Carolina provides the Engineering and Computing Community (ECC) located in Bates House as an on-campus residential community designed to enrich the educational environment for first-year students in the College of Engineering and Computing. Students who live in the Engineering and Computing Community have access to academic success programs and services as well as increased interaction with faculty from the College of Engineering and Computing.
For the students living in the Bates Community, there are many opportunities to get involved in a wide variety of activities designed to support their development as engineers and as computer science and engineering majors.
One of the activities planned for the year is the support of the set-up and implementation of the
FIRST LEGO and
FIRST Robotics competitions hosted alternating years by the College of Engineering and Computing.
Providing hands-on experience with the LEGO league competition, ECC freshmen were given the opportunity to meet with Drs. John Weidner and Ed Gatzke, ChE professors who were on the International FLL Power Puzzle Game Design Team, and construct the 2007 FLL Power Puzzle Challenge during ECC's September 11, 2007 meeting.
ECC welcomes participating by all students interested in engineering and computing.
For more information on ECC, please visit their web site at:
http://www.housing.sc.edu/rli/eng.asp or contact Donald Griffith, Ed.D., Outreach, Recruitment, Retention Director, Swearingen Engineering Center, Ph 803.777,7505,
e-mail or John M. Dingfelder, Office of Resident Student Learning, GA- South Campus, University Housing, Ph 803.777.1407,
e-mail.
To find the date of an upcoming meeting, please check the
College Calendar.
