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Team Formation
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The intent of this course is to provide the
student with a cooperative working experience within an interdisciplinary team.
Students will obtain practical experience with the design process, and learn
specific technical topics covered in lecture and used in the project in
addition to tackling real-life issues of project management encountered in
multi-member teams.
During the first week of class, each student
will be asked to complete a questionnaire about their
technical background. The class will then be divided into teams of three
students (under exceptional circumstances larger teams may be considered) and
tangible deliverables will be due from each team periodically.
Responsibilities of the Students
If you are not serious about taking this
class, please drop the class. People who drop the class late in the semester
will affect their team's progress. In the event of late drops or other
unavoidable problems, the instructor will try to compensate for some of the
grading.
Team members will be selected based on
various skills and each member has basic responsibilities to their team. These
responsibilities include timely attendance in class and at pre-scheduled
out-of-class group meetings and active involvement in all assigned tasks.
Individuals are expected to help their team-member(s) learn and
participate in their area of expertise. Individuals are not to focus completely
on their area of expertise but are expected to demonstrate a willingness to
cross disciplinary boundaries and provide effort on mechanical, electrical, and
control aspects of tasks.
Only one demonstration/report will be
accepted for each task assignment. All team members are expected to attend
their demonstrations; a penalty will be assessed to individuals who are not in
attendance. After all demonstrations for the day are completed, we will have a
group discussion of things that went right and things that went wrong.
Each team is expected to work completely independently
of the other teams on the common lab exercises. Groups
may collaborate with each other on their final projects. However, each group
will remain responsible for completion of its own project and submission of the
report.
Within each group, each member will assume
an equitable portion of the technical tasks including all aspects of design,
implementation and report writing. Although gathering of information or
materials for design or prototype are important, by themselves such tasks are
not considered technical and therefore will not be counted as satisfactory
workload. The extent of each individual’s participation will be assessed by the
instructor through out the semester on the basis of class involvement and the
self- and partner-assessment reports. . In the final count, grades will have to
be assigned to each student individually. Therefore each student is required to
be involved in a meaningful way in the engineering tasks involved at each stage
of the design cycle starting from concept development, to prototype, to testing,
to communication of the results.
Self and Partner-Assessment E-mail
Reports:
On the Friday of each week, each student is
required to send a brief (3-10 sentence) status report of their implementation
efforts by email to the instructors and cc'ing their
teammates. This e-mail report will focus on the individual and team's progress
with respect to (w.r.t) the lab exercises (in the
first half of the semester) and w.r.t the final
project (in the latter half of the semester). The email must include an assessment
of that individual's work from last week, and the individual's planned work for
the week. Teammates are encouraged to coordinate responses prior to sending
their email. Points for individuals (in contrast to the overall team score) are
embedded in the task scores on the basis of the weekly email and on possible
follow-up interviews with the individual students.
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