TIES: All You Need to Know

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• TIES All You Need to Know
• (Sort of)
• Friday, September 28, 2007
• Peterson 102
• http//ties.ucsd.edu

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Administrative Information

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Mandy Bratton, Ph.D.Program Directormbratton_at_ucs
d.edu   822-4164 
Ezequiel Noyola Administrative Assistant enoyola_at_u
csd.edu 534-6105 TIES Office Engineering Student
Services EBU 1, Suite 1400 Mail Code 0429
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TIES TA and tutors
Graduate TA Jamie Bradley (CSE)
Undergraduate tutors Tentative Team(s)
Mercedes Lopez (SE) ENG 100 Liz Kain (CSE)
GSA, DVS, COTF Andy Tran (SE) H4H Stephanie
Fan (BENG) UCP, TBA Scott Maghy (MAE) EM, HHC,
COTF E. Coli (aka TBA) MS, SRFC TIES Meeting
Place Calit2 Undergraduate Studio
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Why TIES?
San Diego
Students need customer-driven, design-to-product
team engineering experience
Community organizations need technological
advice, assistance and solutions
Part of National EPICS Program at 15 national
universities and 1 international site Serving gt80
community clients
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Thinking outside the classroom The spirit of
TIES

• Make a difference in the community
• Gain real-world experience
• Develop excellence in
• Teamwork
• Leadership
• Understanding societal impact of engineering

Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may
remember. Involve me, and I will understand. -
Confucius, 450 B.C.
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TIES Course structure

• ENG 100 Principles of Team Engineering (2 units)
• Monday and Wednesday 1-150 pm Peterson 102
• Lectures on project management, communication,
  teamwork
• Not restricted to TIES students
• ENG 100L Team Engineering Laboratory (2 units)
• Friday 1-150 pm, Peterson 102 Weekly team
  meetings 2hr. Lab/project section
• Faculty-advised project course
• - Friday Lecture/Skill-building/Team-meeting
  sessions

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Academic credit for TIES
For Fall 2007

• Technical elective credit in all engineering
  majors (except Aerospace)
• 1 ENG100 2 ENG100L 1 TE
• Sixth college students can use
  their TIES experience for
  their practicum
  requirement

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11 Current Projects Serving 10 Community
Clients Advised by 13 Faculty
Advisors Enriching the Education of 70
students/qtr
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Client SD River Park, Lakeside Conservancy

• KIOSK TEAM
• Build informational kiosks with touch screen
  technology to bring public information and
  education to Lakeside community
• Faculty advisor Lew Lipton

• ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING TEAM
• Field testing of water quality
• Implementing a self-sustained remote sensing
  prototype
• Faculty advisor Silvia Mah

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• MIDDLE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TEAM
• Enrich the learning experience of
  students through introduction of
  technology
• and environmental education in classrooms
• Faculty advisors
• Jan Kleissl Mandy Bratton

Client San Diego Middle School Teachers and
Students
Client United Cerebral Palsy of San Diego County

• UNIVERSAL TOY ADAPTOR TEAM
• Adaptation of toys to enrich the
  lives of children with
  disabilities
• Faculty advisors
  Nate Delson
  Alin Deutsch

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Client Save Our Childrens Sight

• DIGITAL VISION SCREENING TEAM
• Upgrade high-resolution
  digital camera and lens
  system to provide
  enhanced vision screening
  for low-income
  preschoolers.
• Faculty advisor Dirk-Uwe Bartsch

Client TIES teams national EPICS teams

• INFO MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TEAM
• Update and improve TIES
  programmatic software, myTIES
• Work with 5 national IMS teams
• Faculty advisor Silvia Mah

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Client UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic

• MEDICAL SCHOOL CLINIC TEAM
• Develop a whole person
  digital record-keeping
  software
  to enhance services of the clinic.
• Faculty advisors Jeanne Ferrante,
  Ellen Beck, med school
  students,
  and physicians
  

Client Habitat for Humanity

• H4H UCSD GREEN HOME EDITION
• Create initial building plans for a
  first ever green home
  for
  construction in San Diego
  by the UCSD community.
• Faculty advisor Ebonee Williams

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Client National Federation of the Blind
GROCERY SHOPPING ASSISTANT FOR THE BLIND

• Website clearinghouse of grocery product
  images for
• shopping list preparation to help blind people
  shop
• independently using innovative handheld device
  (MoZi box)
• with computer vision functionality.

Faculty Advisor Serge Belongie
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Client UCSD Medical Center
Hospital Hyperbaric Chamber Project
A conversion device will be designed and
implemented to convert the current analog
pressure-driven devices into a digital formatfor
integration into a chamber treatment log that is
able to interface with any server or network.
Faculty Advisor Doug Palmer
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Client UCSD CAMPUS OF THE FUTURE
This project will investigate how information
and communication technologies may
revolutionize education and campus life at UCSD
in the future through mobile phones, GPS, and
Web 2.O technologies.
Faculty Advisor Bill Griswold
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Timeline, important dates

• On the Web Site http//ties.ucsd.edu
• Check it regularly!

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Web resources Web site http//ties.ucsd.edu/
myTIES
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• Lab/Meeting resources
• Calit2 UG Studio Space
• 2) TIES Labs
• EBU1 5510/5506
• Team key codes emailed
• Team storage space
• Possible meeting space

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Break out sessions

• 1) Break out into your respective teams
• Meet with your faculty advisors and TAs
• Make sure no conflicts
  with 2 hr. weekly lab
  meeting time
• Exchange e-mails
• Fill out TIES entrance questionnaire
• This serves as your attendance record
• Will be used for TIES program evaluation
• Data will be kept confidential