Problems with Access Science Site

Several of you have reported problems connecting to “Access Science” this morning.  I’m not sure what the problem with the link on my page is, but I was able to reach it with no problem with the following procedure:

• Open the Drexel Libraries site - http://www.library.drexel.edu/
• Click on the “Database” box near the top of the page in the pinkish-orange area
• Click on the letter “A” under the word Alphabetically:
• Click Access Science in the column of links – the seventh one down from the top
• You’ll have to supply your Drexel Credentials to see it.

Supplement 8:40PM Sunday

Now this method appears to be failing as well.  If you cannot reach Access Science either way then you may use one of the other sources from the library or Google Scholar.

I’m sorry for the problems – this is the first time I’ve ever had this difficulty.

Jim Mitchell

Responding to Other’s Discussion Posts

Question:

“I'm a little confused about how to respond to another students post. Am I just supposed to talk about his post in general or am I supposed to relate it to my piece in some way? I can see the latter being somewhat difficult in doing since topics can range in many different ways, in this case permafrost technicalities and toxin release into soils.”

Response:

Your question is a reasonable one.  What we hope you could do is identify some commonality between the post to which you reply (and several others ideally) and what you’ve read, even if it’s saying something like “while xxxx’s post dealt with soils in the arctic, my own readings addressed soils in temperate zones……”

Our intent in having you read other student’s posts is to get an exposure to the many aspects of the topic for the week.  We also hope that you’ll seek out the commonalities, or even contrasts.

We’ll accept, ultimately, a statement that you read posts by X, Y, & Z and could not find any links between what they addressed and your topic.  In that case I’d expect a short explanation of why you think that’s the case.

Lab-1–Times and Locations

Location

This week’s lab will be located in the CAEE CadLab in CAT-167.  It’s on the ground floor in the Southeast corner of the building.  CAT is the building to the North of Ludlow (where the food trucks are located)  - Link to Google Maps

Time

Because there are only a limited number of computers in the lab we’re splitting each section in half, so each comes for only 1 hour.  You may exchange with a student from another section, but please do not come at a time different than the one to which you’re assigned.

Section 060 Last Names
A – Kelly	10:00
Kerr - Z	11:00
Section 061 Last Names
A-K	12:00
L-Z	1:00

About You

You might be interested to know the composition of Intro to Infrastructure (CAEE-201) this term.  According the enrollment information we have twelve different majors in the class as you can see from the table below, totaling 121 students.  This is the largest group in recent history.  It will cause some logistical issues on our class field trips, but we’ll cope.  We’re glad to have you.

AE	32
CivE	39
EnvE	15
Bus & Eng	13
Still Deciding	7
Engineering	3
Architecture	1
Chemical Eng.	1
Materials	1
MEM	1
Sociology	1
No major shown	7

 

Do You Have Lots Of Prior Experience?

This is a good place to note that if you feel that the material in this course is unnecessary because of your prior experience you are welcome to talk to Prof. Mitchell.  He can waive the course requirement, but you’ll need to take another in the department of at least the same number of credits that isn’t already required for graduation.

About this Blog

We'll use this blog to post announcements and answer questions that are raised throughout this term related to CAEE-201.  We advise you to subscribe to it via an RSS reader such as Google Reader.  That way you won't have to go into BbLearn to see any changes.  There are many many blogs available on interesting topics.  A good place to search for others that may interest you is Technorati.

Jim Mitchell