| Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) |
Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives |
| Course Objectives |
Competency Indicators |
Ratio(%) |
Teaching Methods |
Assessment Methods |
• Develop a strong engineering-specific vocabulary.
• Improve your presentation skills.
• Enhance your ability to read and interpret technical literature.
• Collaborate more effectively in team-based engineering projects.
• Pre-prepare for professional communication in workplace scenarios. |
| 3.Professional engineering knowledge and application skills for solving environmental pollution problems and promoting sustainable development. |
| 5.Capability of data-integrating, project-management, effective-communication and teamwork. |
| 6.Capability of independent-thinking, innovation and problem-solving. |
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| Attendance |
| Oral Presentation |
| Assignment |
| Quiz |
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| Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule |
| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
9/9 Class orientation / Group work arrangement / Warm-up activity |
| Week 2 |
9/16 U1- L1 Defying Gravity / Heads up: vocabulary game / a mind map for reading comprehension |
| Week 3 |
9/23 U1- L1 From the movie, Maverick, which scene tells the problems that pilots encounter? / Design a device showing gravity and make a short speech, explaining it. |
| Week 4 |
9/30 U1-L3 Aerial Base Station / Discussion: Think of what an Aerial Base station needs to have multifunction services. |
| Week 5 |
10/7 U1-L3 Reading Comprehension / Any idea about Low Earth Orbit? / Vocabulary Test 1 |
| Week 6 |
U2- L1 Facing the Freshwater Crisis I / Ted Talks: Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem / 10/14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otrpxtAmDAk
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| Week 7 |
10/21 U2-L1 A “Drinkable Book” That Filters Water and Saves Lives / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJLMwHXUJFQ
A Short Conversation: Stop doing it! / Vocabulary Test 2 |
| Week 8 |
10/28 U2-L3 Wading in Waste / Review U1-2 |
| Week 9 |
11/4 Mid-term: A written exam, including listening comprehension, vocabulary, reading comprehension |
| Week 10 |
11/11 U2-L3 Red, Blue, Pink Oceans? Please introduce one of incredibly special coastal beaches and towns; for its famous sightseeing, tell us the plans of preventing from pollution. |
| Week 11 |
11/18 U3-L1 Artificial Muscles / Let us find more possible artificial devices |
| Week 12 |
11/25 U3-L1 3D printers create our human future, do they? / Debate: showing your agreement or disagreement |
| Week 13 |
12/2 U3-L3 Self-Cleaning Materials / Dualism (+ or -) for life circles / Vocabulary Test 3 |
| Week 14 |
12/9 U3-L3 hydrophilic vs. hydrophobic / Heads up-guessing game |
| Week 15 |
12/16 U4-L3 Driving toward Crashless Cars / The safest car in the world because of its…. |
| Week 16 |
2/23 U4-L3 Does drone create better civilization, or not? / Conversation Practice / Vocabulary Test 4ϴ/30 Final Exam: Please introduce one of transportation vehicles used in Logistics—Group work with innovative ideas and adding visual aids. e/6 Final Exam: Please introduce one of transportation vehicles used in Logistics—Group work with innovative ideas and adding visual aids. |
self-directed
learning |
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| Evaluation |
| Participation 20% // Oral Presentations & tasks & assignments in class 20% // Mid-term & Final presentations 30% // Attendance 30% |
| Textbook & other References |
| Shih, Wei-Ming, & Jhang, Jhih-Yuan. (Eds.). (2013). ESP: English for General Engineering. Taipei: Bookman Books, Ltd. ISBN: 978-957-445-386-3 |
| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website |
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| Office Hours |
| By appointment Thursday 10:10-12:00 |
| Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL) |
| include experience courses：N |
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