1st Year Students in Mechanical Engineering

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1st Year Studentsin Mechanical Engineering

• Welcome!

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The Admissions Process

• Thorough
• Multi-faceted
• Based on expected success

• The result

You got in!
. You made it!
Congratulations!
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Some People in Mechanical Engineering You Should
Know
Professor Pearl SullivanDepartment Chair

• Professor Roydon FraserAssociate Chair
• Undergraduate Studies

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A Very Important Person in 2nd, 3rd 4th Year
Lynn Crema, Undergraduate Advisor E2 - 2328B
ext. 3625 lcrema_at_uwaterloo.ca
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People in Mechanical Engineering You Will Get to
Know This Term
Professor Roydon Fraser
Professor Steve Lambert
ME 100 Mechanical Engineering Communication
Professionalism Course Instructors
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Other Important People

• ME 100 TAs
• Aditya Chattopadhyay
• Matt Tunt
• Dave Halford
• Curtis Knischewsky
• Travis Ricard

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The Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

• Is a Professional Program
• Meets Canadian Engineering
• Accreditation Board (CEAB) requirements
• Satisfies Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
  academic requirements for Licensing as a
  Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

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The Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

• Academic Program consists of
• 30 core courses,
• 5 complementary studies electives,
• 9 technical electives, and
• other milestones, e.g., WHMIS, ELPE
• Co-operative Engineering Program consists of
• 6 co-operative education work terms,
• 4 work reports, and the
• PDEng program (5 of 6 work terms)

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Mechanical Engineering Curriculum
PHYS 115Mechanics
ME 100Communn Professism
CH E 102Chemistry forEngineers
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
3B
4A
4B
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Complementary Studies Elective (CSE) Courses

• 1 List A course (Impact of Technology on
  Society)
• 1 List B course (Economics)
• 2 List C courses (Humanities and Social
  Sciences)
• 1 additional CSE (from List A, C or D)
• MSCI 261 is a CORE (required) course in 1B

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Mechanical Engineering TEs

• A wide variety of TE courses are available in
  the general areas of

• Automation and Control
• Fluid Mechanics
• Machine Design and Solid Mechanics
• Materials Engineering and Processing
• Thermal Engineering

you can specialize or diversify
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Designated Faculty Options

• Biomechanics Management Sciences
• Mechatronics Environmental
• Physics Etc.

Mechanical Engineering Specialization

• Welding Joining Specialization

Some require extra course load
.all require
planning.
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The University of Waterloo Calendar

• Important Dates Deadlines
• Descriptions of the Mechanical Engineering
  Program
• Examinations Promotions Rules and Regulations,
• Faculty Option Descriptions,
• Course Descriptions

See paper copy or web at http//www.ucalendar.uwat
erloo.ca/
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International Exchange Programs

• Universities around the world,
• e.g., University of Leeds, UK
• Braunschweig, Germany
• Lunds University, Sweden
• Totorri University, Japan
• etc.
• Usually in 3A and/or 3B and requires gt70 GPA
• A great deal of planning is required!

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1st Year Mechanical Engineering

• 1st Year Office looks after your 1A and 1B terms
• Mech. Eng. Professors participate in
• 1A - ME 100 (Profs. Fraser Lambert), and
• 1B - GENE 121 and ME 215

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Communication is Important !

• Student/Faculty Committees meet regularly during
  the term to gather and distribute information
• Starting 2A each class elects
• 1 Class-Professor
• 2 Student Class Representatives

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Personal Problems that Interfere with your
Studies?

• Counselling Services in the 1st Year Eng. Office
  
• - group sessions - individual sessions -
  Study Skills Workshops
• - Exam Anxiety Workshops

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Documentation of Personal Problems

• If you have difficulty such as a serious illness
  or a death in the family
• Inform the 1st Year Undergraduate Office
  immediately
• Obtain documentation

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Keys to Success

• Avoid Superficial Learning- review your notes,
  text, etc. regularly- sort out problems as they
  occur
• - do not procrastinate!
• (No marked assignments in years 2 and 3) -
  do not expect exam questions to be clones from
  assignments - talk to your friends, TAs,
  professors

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Be Sure to Scratch

• Before Tuesday September 11th
• Log onto a Nexus Computer
• Follow Instructions
• Wait
• Confirm
• Any Problems see TAs or Computing Services

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Mechanical Engineering at theUniversity of
Waterloo

• Good Luck in Your Studies!
• Enjoy the Program!

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FactorFib
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Fact of Fib

• The Dana Porter Library is sinking?

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Fact of Fib

• The Dana Porter Library is sinking?
• FALSE

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Fact of Fib

• The Dana Porter Library is sinking?
• FALSE
• UWs undergraduate engineering program is
  Canadas 2nd largest just behind U of Toronto.

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Fact of Fib

• The Dana Porter Library is sinking?
• FALSE
• UWs undergraduate engineering program is
  Canadas 2nd largest just behind U of Toronto.
• FALSE largest with 5100 undergrads

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Fact of Fib

• UW is 50 years old?

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Fact of Fib

• UW is 50 years old?
• TRUE Born 1957

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Fact of Fib

• UW is 50 years old?
• TRUE Born 1957
• UWs newest undergraduate engineering program is
  nanotechology engineering.

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Fact of Fib

• UW is 50 years old?
• TRUE Born 1957
• UWs newest undergraduate engineering program is
  nanotechology engineering.
• FALSE management engineering 2007

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Fact of Fib

• The Tool is a large crescent wrench?

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Fact of Fib

• The Tool is a large crescent wrench?
• FALSE It is a pipe wrench.

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Fact of Fib

• The Tool is a large crescent wrench?
• FALSE It is a pipe wrench.
• Engineering was among the first faculties on
  campus in 1957?

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Fact of Fib

• The Tool is a large crescent wrench?
• FALSE It is a pipe wrench.
• Engineering was among the first faculties on
  campus in 1957?
• TRUE

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Fact of Fib

• Needles Hall was built in 1972 when energy was so
  cheap that single glazed windows were used and
  light switches were not added until 1977.

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Fact of Fib

• Needles Hall was built in 1972 when energy was so
  cheap that single glazed windows were used and
  light switches were not added until 1977.
• TRUE

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Fact of Fib

• Needles Hall was built in 1972 when energy was so
  cheap that single glazed windows were used and
  light switches were not added until 1977.
• TRUE
• The engineering newspaper is called the IMPRINT.

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Fact of Fib

• Needles Hall was built in 1972 when energy was so
  cheap that single glazed windows were used and
  light switches were not added until 1977.
• TRUE
• The engineering newspaper is called the IMPRINT.
• FALSE Iron Warrior

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Fact of Fib

• Water to UW and the surrounding neighbourhood is
  provided by a small pump house across Ring Road
  from Needles Hall?

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Fact of Fib

• Water to UW and the surrounding neighbourhood is
  provided by a small pump house across Ring Road
  from Needles Hall?
• TRUE

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Fact of Fib

• Water to UW and the surrounding neighbourhood is
  provided by a small pump house across Ring Road
  from Needles Hall?
• TRUE
• UW is not U of W in order to avoid confusion with
  Windsor, Winnipeg, Wisconsin, etc.

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Fact of Fib

• Water to UW and the surrounding neighbourhood is
  provided by a small pump house across Ring Road
  from Needles Hall?
• TRUE
• UW is not U of W in order to avoid confusion with
  Windsor, Winnipeg, Wisconsin, etc.
• TRUE

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Getting to Know Each Other