University of South Florida
Fall 2011
Prof M. A. Trotz
About
The EWRE Seminar organized by faculty and students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of South Florida, exposes the university community to topics relevant to our global challenges and to people who are uniquely contributing to solving those challenges. Presenters range from USF graduate students and faculty, to invited faculty and practitioners from the local community and around the world.
Course Objectives
Students taking this seminar for credit will:
- Familiarize themselves with topics in environmental and water resources engineering and up-to-date approaches to solving environmental and water resources problems.
- Contribute to the community of scholars and engineers working towards the solution of important problems through participation in activities like seminar attendance, asking of questions, and online blog posts.
- Produce an online summary of material presented by the speakers in the environmental and water resources engineering.
- Discuss topics presented in the environmental and water resources engineering course using the EWRE USF SEMINAR blogspot.
Time & Place: Mondays, 11:50–12:40 PM, in CUTR 102. On October 3rd and November 7th, the seminar will be held in the Marshall Center, Manatee Room, MSC 3705.
Instructor: Prof Maya A. Trotz ENG (Engineering Bldg I), room 220, matrotz@usf.edu, (813) 974-3172
Credit: 1 unit, satisfactory/unsatisfactory
Requirements
- Each student must attend all regularly-scheduled seminars. Up to two absences can be made up by attendance at another seminar of an appropriate topic (subject to prior approval of the course instructor).
- Each student must contribute to the hosting of one of the speakers. Responsibilities include: speaker introduction & facilitation of questions, and summary post on this blog due no more than 3 days after the seminar. Blog posts must include at least two links to sites of relevance to the talk, have no grammatical errors, and be approximately 200 words.
- Each student must comment on at least two different blog posts over the course of the semester.
- Each student must complete an independent literature review on one of the topics discussed this semester. This literature review should: provide background on the problem discussed by the speaker; describe why it is an important problem worth addressing; describe the current state-of-the art methods for addressing the problem; describe and discuss the important engineering challenges still remaining; and include any other information that the student deems particularly relevant. Papers must be written in the students' own words, and must include full bibliographic references in the form of end notes. Students who plagiarize will not be given credit for the class.
USF Policy on Emergencies
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
(Instructor’s note: examples of “emergency” could be a hurricane, outbreak of contagious disease, etc.)
USF Policy on Academic Accommodations for a Disability
Students in need of academic accommodations for a disability may consult with the office of Services for Students with Disabilities to arrange appropriate accommodations. Students are required to give reasonable notice (typically 5 working days) prior to requesting an accommodation.
Instructor’s Policy on Academic Honesty
- Materials presented or disseminated in this class should be considered copyrighted and should not be reproduced or distributed without the permission of the speaker.
- Seminars should not be recorded by students without the permission of the speaker. Any recorded seminars are only for the private use of students registered for the class.
- Notes and/or recorded lectures may not be sold.
- Plagiarism will not be tolerated. As commonly defined, plagiarism consists of passing off as one’s own the ideas, words, writings, etc., which belong to another. Students are strongly encouraged to complete USF’s on-line plagiarism tutorial, which may be found at: http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plag.html
- Violation of these rules -- even unintentionally! -- can result in disciplinary action including an unsatisfactory grade in the course, suspension, dismissal, and expulsion from USF. If you have any questions regarding plagiarism or other forms of scholastic dishonesty, please consult the relevant sections of the USF student catalogs, and/or ask the instructor.
