Course project/Assignments(5% for each HW, 10% for each PA)
45%
Class participation
5%
Midterms There is one midterm in the class. I may give
out another optional midterm depending on the performance of the class.
Class discussion This class is meant to be
interactive. Everyone is expected to engage in discussions.
You get an E for the course if you failed the exams and do not show
sufficient efforts in your project. Insanely great work gets an A+,
awesome work an A, acceptable work a B, and mediocre work a C.
Policy on Collaboration
You may, and are encouraged to, team up with up to two other students
to work on your course project. Exams, including take-home exams, on
the other hand, must be completed individually.
Acts of cheating and plagiarizing will be reported to the Engineering
Honor Council. Cheating is when you copy, with or without
modification, someone else's work that is not meant to be publicly
accessible. Plagiarizing is when you copy, with or without
modification, someone else's work that is publicly available without
acknowledging the original author. You may also want to read the College of
Engineering Honor Code.
To discuss course project, when no actual solution or code is copied,
is not considered cheating and is actually strongly encouraged. If you
receive substantial help from others, you must acknowledge them in
your work. If you use any published materials (books, papers, or
materials found on the Web) in your solution, you must give full
citation that will facilitate the locating of the original materials
(for example, the URL of the Web site). You must not discuss exam
questions with others nor look up the solutions online.
Regrade and Late Days
You have five working days from when a piece of graded work is
returned to you to ask for a regrade. Due to grade reporting schedule,
request for regrade of the final exam must be submitted the same day
it is returned to you. To ask for regrade, you must submit a written
request explaining the technical reasons that would make a regrade
necessary. A regrade means regrading your whole work and may result in
overall lower grade.
Five late days are allowed for all assigments. Students can decide how
to allocate the 5 days for any assignment, as long as the number of
late days used do not exceed 5 altogether.