Day	Time	Lab	UCB Location
W	11:00 am-noon	Multimedia Lab	3116 Etcheverry Hall
W	noon-1:00pm	Research Lab and Lunch	6102 Etcheverry Hall

Join us for coffee and lunch with women engineers from academe and industry across the country. We will explore WWW (World Wide Web) sites that feature women engineers and use multimedia and Internet to talk with women engineers in Cyberspace. Computer projection will be used to make this a synchronous group experience. There will be opportunities for dialog through desktop video conferencing, speaker phone and internet chat sessions. The WWW and html authoring will be the primary medium for communication and presentation. In addition to attendance, course requirements include developing personal home pages, reading assignments, writing multimedia essays and participating on a multimedia discourse system called SpeakEasy. No final examination. Open to all freshman/sophomore students with an interest in engineering in industry and the history of women engineers.

Class projects and Cyberspace discussions.

There will be no miderm or final examinations.

Prerequisites

Freshman or sophomore standing in engineering and consent of instructor.

Required/Recommended Texts

None. Reading will be handed out/posted on-line as appropriate.

Card Keys

You are required to have a card key for the Macintosh Laboratory (MacLab) in 3116 Etcheverry Hall. The card keys will be available the second week of class from Joey Cruz in 2115 Etcheverry Hall for $25 ($15 is a refundable deposit, $10 set-up fee). The Card Key will allow you to access Etcheverry Hall Entry Doors, 3116 and 2111 Etcheverry Hall 24 hours a day. Take appropriate safety precautions when working in Etcheverry Hall between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.

Computer Accounts

You are required to have an e-mail account and MacLab Server account both of which will be issued in the second week of class.