ENGR 101

Fall 2026 Week 1 2 3 ...

Welcome! We're glad to have you in ENGR 101!

Please join us on Tuesday, September 1st for our first lecture! This week we'll be learning how ENGR101 works and the strategies for success! We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Complete the Start of Term Checklist before your first lab.

Labs start meeting this week.
Be sure to attend the lab section you signed up for on Wolverine Access. Come prepared to meet your classmates and work through your first activity.

Office Hours begin Monday, August 31st. Scroll down to find out when and where office hours are.

Heads up! Your first lesson is due Tuesday, September 1st. This is a short lesson to walk you through working with your computer and installing MATLAB. If you have trouble installing MATLAB, you can come to office hours or contact the CAEN help desk.

Make sure to read the Guide to Using PrairieLearn to understand how the lessons are set up, and then click a lesson link below to get started. Don't forget that Lessons 2, 3, and 4 are due next week!

Complete BEFORE your first lab.

Read the syllabus , course norms , and FAQ documents.

Find your lab instructor in our Meet the Staff slides!

Go to Canvas and click on Piazza to check out our Piazza site.

Go to Canvas and click on PrairieLearn to see where you will do lesson, lecture reflections, labs, and other assignments.

Complete Lesson 1: Setting Up Your Computer so that you are ready for lab!

Due TUES 11:59pm

LS1: Setting Up Your Computer

These lessons are due next week on September 8th. Don't forget to do them!

LS2: Intro to Matlab

LS3: Vectors and Matrices

LS4: Functions in MATLAB

Learn How to Succeed in ENGR101

Slides / Files

Recordings

Reflection Form
Due Sat. 11:59pm

Recordings and reflection available after lecture ends.

Meet and Greet / How Labs Will Work

Welcome Slides

Lab Exercises

Piazza Q&A with walkthrough videos

(Walkthroughs are released on Friday night/Saturday morning)

Welcome to Week 2!
This week we'll start learning MATLAB and discuss why your computer is your most important engineering tool.

No Office Hours Sunday and Monday this week due to the Labor Day holiday. Office hours will resume on Tuesday, September 8th.

Your first big set of lessons are due this week. Make sure to read the Guide to Using PrairieLearn to understand how the lessons are set up, and then click a lesson link below to get started!

Join the course late? Not to worry! Email your lab instructor to introduce yourself and then check Week 1 for links to things you need to get caught up on. If you need extensions for assignments, contact the course coordinator at engr101coursecoordinator@umich.edu.

Check back later for extra credit opportunities!

The Engineering Center for Academic Success holds tutoring sessions for a variety of classes.

Due TUES 11:59pm

LS2: Intro to Matlab

LS3: Vectors and Matrices

LS4: Functions in MATLAB

Your Computer as an Engineering Tool

Slides / Files

Recordings

Reflection Form
Due Sat. 11:59pm

Recordings and reflection available after lecture ends.

Matrices and Functions

Welcome Slides

Lab Exercises

Autograder Submission

Piazza Q&A with walkthrough videos

(Walkthroughs are released on Friday night/Saturday morning)

Welcome to Week 3!
We'll be exploring logical indexing and images in MATLAB.

Practice Quiz 1 is available this week. The Practice Quiz will give you a very good idea of what an actual Quiz looks like - we STRONGLY encourage you to take at least one Practice Quiz before you take Quiz 1 next week!

Lecture this week will use the concepts of logical indexing and image manipulation to create a solution to a code problem.

Quiz 1 is next week. See the Quiz & Exam Logistics document for more details.

(10 pts) MATLAB Practice Set #1. Earn up to 10 points of extra credit by completing problems in the MATLAB Practice Set #1 assignment on PrairieLearn by September 26th at 11:59pm. This is a great way to start prepping for Quiz 1!

The Engineering Center for Academic Success holds tutoring sessions for a variety of classes.

LS5: Logical Operations and Indexing

LS6: Working with Images

Working with Images in MATLAB

Slides / Files

Recordings

Reflection Form
Due Sat. 11:59pm

Recordings and reflection available after lecture ends.

Logical Indexing and Images

Welcome Slides

Lab Exercises

Autograder Submission

Piazza Q&A with walkthrough videos

(Walkthroughs are released on Friday night/Saturday morning)

Quiz 1 is next week! Make sure you have made a reservation in PrairieTest to take Quiz 1 at the Engineering Testing Facility.

PrairieTest Quiz Reservations at the ETF

How to Make an ETF Reservation

Professor Office Hours

Come talk about anything at all (this course, other courses, why Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering is the best major, why 1995 was the best year ever for movies ... you know, the important stuff!). This is a super casual thing -- come on by!

Friday 1:00-2:00pm

B521 Pierpont

Come chat about life at Michigan, what it's like working in a research lab, or why guinea pigs make the best pets.

Tuesday, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

B521 Pierpont

Staff Office Hours

Read this guide to office hours to help you get the most out of your office hours time in ENGR 101.

This student-facing post from Arizona State University talks about office hours: why to use them, how to prepare for them, etc. We hope you'll come visit us in our office hours, and we want to emphasize that you can come to discuss course-related questions or concerns, but you can also come to ask us about majors, about your resume, etc. We are very excited to meet with you 1:1!

You can join these office hours without an appointment. You can stay as long as you want, so come hang out and get some ENGR 101 work done with us! This schedule will not change from week-to-week, so feel free to plan around this!

Day	Schedule

Course Essentials

All the details

Norms and expectations for meetings, email, and other forms of communication in the course

Meet the course staff!

Answers to common questions about ENGR 101

Intro to the platform we will use for many of our assignments.

Everything to know about how to take your quizzes and exams

You will do the installation as part of homework assignments, but you can find it here, too, if you need it later!

Request Forms

Request an excused lab absence due to illness

Request a regrade or report a grade discrepancy

Projects

Project code is submitted to the autograder; the autograder is linked at the top of this course webpage. Read this guide to the autograder to learn more about using the autograder.

All project code is subjected to our cheat checking procedures. If we find sufficient evidence of cheating, we are required to submit a report to the Honor Council. You can learn more about what happens with Honor Council reports by watching this video from the Engineering Center for Academic Success.

Project information will be available here on the website when the project is released. Project information generally consists of these items:

Project Due Date (11:59pm)

Overview ( slides )

Specifications

FAQ

Schedule of Topics

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic

Setting Up Your Computer Lesson 1 due	Lecture 1: Learn how to succeed in ENGR 101
		Lab 1: Introduction to ENGR 101 Lab


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic
Labor Day
Intro to MATLAB; Vectors and Matrices; Functions in MATLAB Lessons 2-4 due	Lecture 2: Your Computer as an Engineering Tool
		Lab 2: Matrices and Functions (Storing Pallets)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic
Logical Operations and Indexing; Working with Images Lessons 5-6 due
	Lecture 3: Working with Images in MATLAB
		Lab 3: Logical Indexing and Images (Great Lakes Temperature Map)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects	Quizzes & Exams
Plotting and Figures; Statistics and Simulation; Advanced Plotting and Data Visualization Lessons 7-9 due			Drop/Add Deadline	Quiz #1 happens this week You will be able to select a time slot that fits your schedule!
	Lecture 4: MATLAB Project Overview		MATLAB Project released
		Lab 4: Plotting, Statistics, and Simulation (Sugary Cereals)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due	MATLAB project spec review due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects
Strings and Cell Arrays; MATLAB Tables Lessons 10-11 due
	Lecture 5: Beam Deflection		MATLAB Project Checkpoint due
		Lab 5: Cell Arrays, Tables, Data Visualization (Panda Tours and Wavefield Fun)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects
No lessons due this week. Get your MATLAB Project done! 🎉
	Lecture 6: Analyzing Credit Card Limits		MATLAB Project due
		Lab 6: More Tables & Data Analysis (Halley's Comet)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Quizzes & Exams
Practice with Functions, Images, Plotting, and Debugging Lessons 12-13 due			Quiz #2 happens this week You will be able to select a time slot that fits your schedule!
	Lecture 7: Animation in MATLAB
		Lab 7: Goodbye MATLAB, Hello C++


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic
Fall Break!
Fall Break!
Intro to C++, More C++ Basics and Branching, Iteration Lessons 14-16 due	Lecture 8: Your Computer as an Engineering Tool, part 2 (ASYNCHRONOUS)	Lab 8: Data Types, Braching, and Iteration (PIN Security)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Quizzes & Exams
Functions in C++; Strings, Streams and IO Lessons 17-18 due			Quiz #3 happens this week You will be able to select a time slot that fits your schedule!
	Lecture 9: Program Planning and Debugging Run-Time Errors
		Lab 9: Functions and File I/O (Launching Snowballs)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic
Vectors; Program Design Lessons 19-20 due
	Lecture 10: Redacting Information
		Lab 10: Vectors and Program Design (Spellcheck)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects	Quizzes & Exams
Structs, Vectors of Vectors Lessons 21-22 due				Quiz #4 happens this week You will be able to select a time slot that fits your schedule!
	Lecture 11: C++ Project Overview		C++ Project released
		Lab 11: Data Structures and Program Design (Containerships)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due	C++ Project spec review due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects
No lessons due this week. Get your C++ Project Checkpoint done! 🎉
	Lecture 12: House Hunting		C++ Project Checkpoint due
		Lab 12: Programming Practice (Energy Management)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Week 13	Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects	Quizzes & Exams
	No lessons due this week
		No Lecture This Week
	Thanksgiving Break!

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects
No lessons due this week. Get your C++ Project done! 🎉
	Lecture 13: TBD Programming Application		C++ Project due
		Lab 13: Programming Practice (Ottendorf Cipher)


	Lecture reflection due	Lab exercises due

Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic
No lessons due this week
	Lecture 14: Semester Wrap-up
		No lab this week
		No lab this week
Last day of class!
	Lecture reflection due

Week 16	Lesson Topic	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Projects	Quizzes & Exams
					The Final Exam happens this week You will be able to select a time slot that fits your schedule!

Interested in Being an IA or GSI?

Interested in being an IA or GSI for ENGR 101? Fill out this "I'm Interested" form and we'll send you an application the next time we are hiring! We do hiring in March for the upcoming fall term, and we do hiring in November for the upcoming winter term.

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