User:Eas4200c.f08/HW report table/The best of HW7

 Under construction; not final (but close to being stable after a couple of weeks). The intention here is to document the best features in any HW report for the readers (including you); if you see excellent features in any HW report (including your team's) that I may have missed noticing, don't hesitate to let me know. I don't have time to read all HW reports in detail. In fact, due to time constraint, I only selectively looked at a few important features. On the other hand, I also added some annotations (e.g., related to errors) in the HW reports that I looked through for the benefit of everyone. Eml4500.f08 19:51, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * classnotes graded over 100%
 * non-symmetric thin-walled open cross section with stringers
 * centroid location
 * inertia tensor
 * shear flow
 * model problem: C-section. NOTE: Essentially a similar problem as in Exam 3 (at least the beginning; just neglect the skin), in case you did not do this HW problem, but only copied down what I wrote in class !! I did not see many teams completed this HW problem, as assigned in class.
 * closed sections
 * single-cell sections
 * without stringers
 * with stringers
 * multiple-cell sections
 * without stringers
 * with stringers
 * recommended software to improve productivity. Most useful: Team VQCrew, discuss how best to type latex equations, write wiki articles, draw figures in different stages of learning to become experts.
 * writing wiki articles
 * writing latex equations
 * drawing figures
 * Mediawiki (on Wikiversity) vs. WebCT (on E-learning at UF): To set the proper context for this section, I included below my original e-mail requesting a team consensus on a comparison between Mediawiki vs. WebCT. General comment: Non-cooperative work. Some teams even admit that they never met together as instructed per cooperative learning techniques, with each team member taking turn to work on a lecture. Team Aero (with annotations): "the scope of collaboration did not extend as far as was perhaps intended. In general, the assignment was divided based on lecture days and each person made their own posts with little editing." There was not much of a cooperation. Here is a most-telling example.  The result is often a mosaic of incoherent pieces put together, without a flowing story.  Absenteism and workload. If each student (in a typical team of six) did 1/6 of the work, took care of one lecture once every two weeks, but received 34% credit for the course grade, and yet did not attend all lectures, it is not clear why some of these students said that there was too much work, and what they would use the rest of their freed-up time for !?  At least, Mediawiki allowed some students to free up their lecture attendance.  Young Einstein was famous for skipping his classes (for thinking about physics), and learned from the math notes of his friend, but he was one in a billion... It would be a wild stretch of imagination to think that we had a Young Einstein in the class... Students who regularly attended lectures would do better in exams than they potentially could otherwise, regardless of their own level. Lecture notes taking seems to be a lost art with in the digital age of powerpoint presentations.  While many students continued to take good notes (and even scanned them to e-mail out to their teammates who did not attend lectures), many others just relied either on their teammates' notes, the textbook (some lectures cannot be found in the textbook), or the digital photos they took of my transparencies (hand-written in real time in class) using their cell phones, even though I mentioned in class that it was not possible to do math or mechanics without writing, and did referred to the effect of writing on remembering that I read in Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden.
 * collaboration
 * parallel team work across the internet
 * math equations
 * incorporation other media (video, audio)
 * accessibility

EML4500, The best of HW7
 * matlab problem graded over 100%
 * shear buckling of rectangular plate
 * simply-supported boundary conditions
 * buckling shape: analytical expression and plot. Best solution: Team Aero6, the buckling shape should have one bump, instead of many bumps.
 * clamped boundary conditions
 * NACA airfoil, analysis of shear flow
 * single-cell with stringers
 * results:
 * Team VQCrew, best presentation of results, but not sure that results are correct, as also recognized by the team.
 * 3-cell with stringers
 * results:
 * Team VQCrew, best presentation of results, but not sure that results are correct, as also recognized by the team.