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Teams In Engineering Service (TIES) is an innovative academic program, initiated by the Jacobs School of Engineering, that creates partnerships between multidisciplinary teams of students and non-profit organizations in the local community. The student teams design, build and deploy technical solutions that will have a significant impact on San Diego non-profit community organizations and the people they serve at no monetary cost to the organization. The program is designed to give students extensive leadership, project management, ethics and team engineering training, as well as direct experience of using their technical knowledge to give back to the community.
TIES is modeled after the EPICS Program at Purdue University which has proven to be enormously successful in its efforts to provide its engineering students with the opportunity to work in the "real world". Following this model, the UCSD program offers a course structure designed to integrate large-scale, and long-term, multi-year projects into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Multi-disciplinary teams of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors from engineering as well as other disciplines can participate for up to two years, receiving course and some technical elective credit.
Course Components:
ENG 100, Principles of Team Engineering (2 credits), is an introduction to the practice of engineering as a team-driven profession. Topics include the design process, verbal and written communication, principles of teamwork, project management, quality measures, ethics and community involvement.
ENG 100L, Team Engineering Laboratory (2 credits) is a faculty-directed multi-disciplinary project course where students use their technical knowledge to develop real solutions based on community client needs.
NOTE: Students must be concurrently enrolled for or already have taken ENG 100 or ENG 101 to take ENG 100L. UCSD Engineering Departments offer Technical Elective Credit for TIES courses: ENG100 and ENG100L. Please see technical elective credit information for more details.
Typical Projects: TIES projects can range from working with orthopedists and physical therapists to develop and build mechanical tools or prosthetics for the developmentally disabled; developing a monitoring system to enable seniors to live with greater independence and remain in their homes; to working with local environmental associations to develop ways to monitor and treat pollution runoff. Examples at Purdue University have included:
• A customized, distributed database for tracking clients of the Homelessness Prevention Network, still in use five years after project completion; and
• Custom play environments to enhance the skills of disabled children.
TIES currently has 8 projects, serving 5 community clients, advised by 11 Faculty Advisors.
Benefits for Students: These include:
• Improved communication, organizational, and leadership skills,
• Start-to-finish design experience,
• Multi-disciplinary teamwork,
• Experience in project and resource management, ethics training and responsibility, as well as customer and community awareness, and
• Fulfilling and expanding the ABET 2000 criteria by providing demonstrable and measurable outcomes of undergraduate engineering theoretical knowledge, technical skills, teamwork, communication, ethical responsibility and value for professional development.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Please see FAQs for more details.
How often does ENG 100 meet? ENG 100L?
ENG 100 is a 2-hour weekly lecture course, with both faculty and outside speakers. It is expected to have 4 hours of outside preparation per week. ENG 100L has 1 hour of guest lecture series weekly, and 1 - 2 hours of team lab meeting. It is expected to have 3 hours of outside preparation.
How many times can students take ENG 100? 100L?
ENG 100 can be taken only once. ENG 100L can be taken for up to 6 quarters for credit. Long term participation in ENG 100L is encouraged.
Why is ENG 100L only 2 credits?
Teamwork and leadership experience are best developed over a longer time period over a full cycle of design and development. This allows both self and peer-assessment, personal reflection, and team continuity plans.
How is ENG 100L graded?
ENG 100L is graded both individually and by team. Grades are based on academic milestones such as quarter plans with budgets, individual design notebooks, reports, presentations, peer and self evaluations, and feedback from the community client. See grading schema for details.
Can I get technical elective credit for ENG 100 and 100L?
See students
technical
electives credit.
How does a student sign up for ENG 100 and 100L?
See How students sign up for TIES.
We encourage your feedback and questions on TIES. For more information on TIES, please contact us as indicated.
TIES Contact Information:
Updated:
September 19, 2005
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