User:Eml4500.f08.team.foskey.ckf/HW1

Course Overview

The Fall 2008 Finite Element Analysis and Design (EML 4500) course is taught in FLG 270 at 3:00pm (8th period) by Dr. Loc Vu-Quoc. The prerequisites for the course include Computer Programming for Engineers (CGS 2425), Intermediate Engineering Analysis (EGM 4313), and Mechanics of Materials (EGM 3520).

The course website can be accessed at www.mae.ufl.edu/~vql

The course Wikiversity page can be found at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Eml4500.f08

The current grade determination for the class is that each of the three exams will make up 23% of the student’s grade, and that the homework, projects, and class participation make up the remaining 31%. Team evaluation forms will need to be printed out prior to the exams, completed, and submitted with the exams. Grade penalties will result if a team evaluation form is not submitted.

The exam schedule for EML 4500 is as follows:

Exam 1: Wed, Sept. 24, 2008

Exam 2: Wed, Oct. 22, 2008

Exam 3: Wed, Dec. 3, 2008

Course Policy

Students are expected to arrive to class on time, and turn off cell phones, beepers and/or pagers. Students arriving late to class should use the doors at the back of the room. Talking during the lecture, as well as eating or drinking is not permitted. All emails submitted to the instructor of the TA’s should be written in formal letter format.

Wiki Homework

Creating an account & creating articles

Each student will be required to create a wikipedia account for the wikiversity portion of wikipedia.com. This is accomplished by logging on to the wikiversity page and clicking on log in/ create account. The student’s username should be in the form : course.semester.TeamName.LastName.initials.

For example: For John Q. Doe in team gamma for the fall 2007 EML 4500 course, John’s username would be eml4500.f08.gamma.doe.jqd.

To edit a page, the users log into wikiversity, and then click on their username. Links to other wiki pages are created by typing the links in the editing box. To create a link to a page for homework 1, the user would type User:eml4500.f08.gamma.doe.jqd/hw1 (in double square brackets) or User:eml4500.f08.gamma.doe.jqd/hw1| HW 1 (again, in double square brackets) The second of which will shorten the link to “HW 1”. Clicking on the link will take the user to a new page that the user can edit with the information pertaining to homework 1.

All information in the wiki article should be rewritten in the student’s words, to avoid plagiarism. Citations should be given for all reference materials. All figures should be redrawn by the individuals, not copied or scanned from textbooks.

Submitting Wiki Homework

To submit a Wiki Homework article, each member of the team will add a link to an ARCHIVED version of their contribution to the team coordinator’s page. Once the team coordinator has a completed assignment, the team coordinator will then email an ARCHIVED link of the page to the TA’s. The homework must be submitted prior to the due date time, as the homework will contain a time stamp indicating its submission time.

The top 3 reports will be selected by the TA’s and will be posted for the entire class to see. Those top 3 reports will receive an additional bonus of 10%, 5% and 3% respectively.

Guidelines for Homework

All homework should be written so that anyone not involved with the assignment would be able to understand it. The reports can be typed by word processor, or hand written if done neatly and legibly. The problem should be restated in simple terms. A detailed description of the methods of solving the problem should be given, and any computer code used should be explained. The input data should be given, and the end results should be given and discussed. An appendix should contain the computer code used, as well as the input and output data. Since the report is done as a group assignment, it is important for all group members to contribute, and to proofread the report prior to submission.

Additional Wiki Notes

To help reduce outside tampering to the articles, students should not use their class accounts to edit non class related wikipedia articles. There will be a grade penalty for any user that edits a non class related article with their class account. Additionally, to reduce the possibility of teams stealing information from other teams, the usernames for team members should only be known by fellow teammates. A safe method would be to wait until the assignment is completed to create the articles, compile them on the team coordinators page, and then submit them. In this way, the information is only viewable for a limited amount of time before it is turned in.