ME39C : Course Offerings

Spring 1997: Instructors: Alice Agogino, and Brandon Muramatsu; Course Number: ME39C; Number of Units: 1; Number os Students: 15; The World Wide Web and HTML will be the primary authoring platform for the class.; Projects: To be determined
Spring 1996: Instructors: Alice Agogino, Sherry Hsi, and Brandon Muramatsu; Course Number: ME39C and ME199 (ME139C Experimental); Number of Units: 2-3; Number of Students: 19 (14 ME39C Project Engineers, 5 ME199 Project Managers); High demand by juniors and seniors led to the creation of an experimental course titled ME139C - Managment of Multimedia Case Study Development (offered as ME199). Experimented with more "formal" project teams with the ME139C juniors and seniors serving as project managers with the ME39C freshmen and sophomores serving as project engineers. ME139C attempted to meld the development of multimedia case studies (as forms of communication and to learn about life-cycle design) with developing the skills necessary to manage the development of a multimedia project. First use of Macromedia's Director as the authoring environment for the case studies. Increased use of the WWW as a means of communicating project progress.; Projects: Case Study: The Boeing 777, Manufacturing Strategies, Mechanics of Speed, Quantum, Voice Recognition and Speech Synthesis
Fall 1994: Instructors: Alice Agogino, Sherry Hsi, Jennifer Moriarta, and Brandon Muramatsu; Course Number: ME39C; Number of Units: 1; Number of Students: 29; Changed course from a freshman seminar to a freshman/sophomore seminar and increased the number of units to be comensurate with the projects. First use of multiple platforms -- both the Mac and IBM compatible computers. Used Claris Hypercard on the Mac and Asymmetrix Toolbok on the IBM.; Projects: CalSol 1994; CD-ROM; Golden Gate National Recreation Area: Alcatraz, Fort Point, Golden Gate Bridge, Natural Resources, Presidio; How a Computer Works; Mothers of Invention; Personal Communication Devices; Video Games; Video Games: Research & Design; Wurster Hall
Fall 1993: Instructors: Alice Agogino and Sherry Hsi; Course Number: ME24; Number of Units: 1; Number of Students: 15; Second Offering.
Fall 1992: Instructors: Alice Agogino and Sherry Hsi; Course Number: ME24; Number of Units: 1; Number of Students: 5; First offering as a freshman seminar.