Spring 2012

GENN 001

Lecture (1)

Intorduction

SyllabusInstructor:Dr. Esmail Bialy1 e-mail:

esmail_bialy@hotmail.com

Time & Location: 9.00 am- 10.50 am Room 51207

12.00 pm- 01.50 pm Room 51206

1 Cairo University, Mechanical Power Dept.

Course Materials:

CUFE-Genn001: Humanities for

Engineers Class presentations will be available on

(egypteducation.org )after class meeting.

Handouts will be available electronically on the class page or as a hard copy.

General Rules:

Attendance: within 15 mins after starting (Late arrivals will be marked)

Assignment due dates will be announced in the assignment description sheets.

There will be no make ups for the midterm, quizzes, assignments and/or class activities.

Students should check their e-mails and the class page on (egypteducation.org) regularly for course announcements and materials.

It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of important course dates and duties.

General Rules: (cont.d)Cell phones: Your cell phones should be set to

silent, vibration, or off mode. If your phone goes off during class time, you will be sent out and taken absent for the session.

Food and drinks in class: All types of food, gum, snacks and drinks are NOT allowed during class time.

Grades will be posted on course website and CUFE-CHS online student portal.

Grading Policy

Final Exam40%

Course work Activities40%Mid-Term Exam

20%10% Home works5% 1st Project10% 2nd project15% 3rd project

Paradigm Shift

Course Objective

Goal (Objective) ?????

A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions:

*Who:      Who is involved?*What:     What do I want to accomplish?*Where:    Identify a location.*When:     Establish a time frame.*Which:    Identify requirements and constraints.*Why:      Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the

goal.

EXAMPLE:  A general goal would be, “Get in shape.” But a specific goal would say, “Join a health club and workout 3 days a week.”

Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward

the attainment of each goal you set.

When you measure your progress, you stay on track, reach

your target dates.

To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such

as……

How much? How many?

How will I know when it is accomplished?

When you identify goals that are most important to you, you

begin to figure out ways you can make them come true.

You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your

steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to

carry out those steps. Goals that may have seemed far away

and out of reach eventually move closer and become

attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you

grow and expand to match them. When you list your goals

you build your self-image. You see yourself as worthy of these

goals.

To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward

which you are both willing and able to work. A goal can be

both high and realistic; you are the only one who can

decide just how high your goal should be.

A high goal is frequently easier to reach than a low one

because a low goal exerts low motivational force. Some of

the hardest jobs you ever accomplished actually seem easy

simply because they were a labor of love.

A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time

frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency. If you want to lose

10 lbs, when do you want to lose it by? “Someday” won’t work.

But if you anchor it within a timeframe, “by May 1st”, then

you’ve set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working

on the goal.

Your goal is probably realistic if you truly believe that it can be

accomplished. Additional ways to know if your goal is realistic

is to determine if you have accomplished anything similar in the

past or ask yourself what conditions would have to exist to

accomplish this goal.

“Smiling is a universal Language”

“Don’t Start your day like this”

عن أبي ذر -رضي الله تعالى عنه- قال: قال رسول اللهصلى الله عليه وسلم: 

، وأم"رك ب"المعروف تبس�مك في وج�ه أخي�ك ل�ك ص�دقة ”ونهي""ك عن المنك""ر ص""دقة، وإرش""ادك الرج""ل في أرض الض""الل ل""ك ص""دقة، وبص""رك للرج""ل ال""رديء البص""ر ل""ك ص"دقة، وإماطت"ك الحج"ر والش"وكة والعظم عن الطري"ق ل"ك

صدقة، وإفراغك من دلوك في دلو أخيك لك صدقة “ أخرجه البخاري في األدب المفرد والترمذي وابن حبان

ابتسم فسبحان من جعل االبتسامه في ديننا) عباده ( وعليها نؤجر

د. إبراهيم الفقي )رحمه الله(

“A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks”

Charles Gordy“I've never seen a smiling face that was not

beautiful “Smiling is infectious,

You can catch it like the flu.Someone smiled at me today,And I started smiling too.

“Peace begins with a smile” Mother Teresa