Syllabus

• Academic Honesty: Article2.3.3 of the Academic Freedom Report states that "the student shares with the faculty the responsibility for maintaining the integrity of scholarship, grades, and professional standards." In addition, the College of Engineering and the Mechanical Engineering Department, adheres to the policies on academic honesty as specified in General Student Regulations 1.0, Protection of Scholarship and Grades, and in the all-University Policy on Integrity of Scholarship and Grades, which are included in Spartan Life; Student Handbook and Resource Guide. Students who plagiarize may receive a 0.0 on the assignment or fail the course.
• Accommodations for Disabilities: Students with disabilities should contact the Resource Center for People with Disabilities to develop reasonable accommodations. For an appointment with a counselor, call 353-9642 (voice) or 355-1293 (TTY).
• Dropping this Course: The last day to drop this course with a 100 percent refund and no grade reported is 9/18/2008. The last day to drop this course with no refund and no grade reported is 10/14/2008. You should immediately make a copy of your amended schedule to verify you have dropped this course.
• Religious Observance: If you wish to be absent from class to observe a religious holiday, make arrangements in advance with the instructor.
• Missing Class to Participate in a Required Activity: To be excused from this class to participate in a required activity for another course or a university-sanctioned event, you must provide the instructor with adequate advanced notice and a written authorization from the faculty member of the other course or from a university administrator.

Plagiarism Policy

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Plagiarism is not tolerated in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It shall be punished according to the student conduct code of the University. Integrity and honesty are essential to maintain society's trust in the engineering profession.  This policy is intended to reinforce these values.

For the purpose of this policy, plagiarism means presenting, as one's own, without proper citation, the words, work or opinions of someone else.

A. You commit plagiarism if you submit as your own work:

1. Part or all of an assignment copied from another person's assignment, including reports, drawings, web sites, computer files, or hardware.

 

2. Part or all of an assignment copied or paraphrased from a source, such as a book, magazine, pamphlet, web site, or web posting, without proper citation .

 

3. The sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, pattern or thought of someone else, even though you express them in your own words. Plagiarism occurs when such a sequence of ideas is transferred from a source to a paper without the process of digestion, integration and reorganization in the writer's mind, and without acknowledgement in the paper.

B. You are an accomplice in plagiarism and equally guilty if you:

          1. Knowingly allow your work, in preliminary or finished form, to be copied and submitted as the work of another.

2. Prepare an assignment for another student, and allow it to be submitted as his or her own work.

 

                        3. Keep or contribute to a file of assignments with the clear intent that these assignments will be copied and submitted as the work of anyone other than the originator of the assignment. (The student who knows that his or her work is being copied is presumed to consent to its being copied.)

Course Objectives:

Successful completion of this course will enable students to:

Use associative parametric design methods

Use and apply associative curves to models

Create freeform surfaces

Document design intent

Use dynamic analysis software to refine design possibilities

Do virtual prototyping

Use rapid prototyping equipment

Grading:

Three lab exams,         20 % each

Project presentation,   40%

Final course grade will be based on the following absolute scale:
 
90.0 and above        4.0

85.0 to 89.9             3.5

80.0 to 84.9             3.0

75.0 to 79.9             2.5

70.0 to 74.9             2.0

65.0 to 69.9             1.5

50.0 to 64.9             1.0

49.9 and below        0.0

Projects will be available the last portion of most lab sessions. They will not be graded. 

If you choose not to complete them, it is virtually guaranteed that you will not be successful in the lab exams or final projects.

Each lab test is due at the end of the lab session that the test is administered and must be saved in the proper directory, which is;

                     T:\courses-test\ME\285\Sections\001\students\(username), 

with the proper file name, which is;

                      \username_lab_test_#,

 to receive credit. 

If you do not save the test properly you will receive a 0 for the test.

Advanced notice is required to qualify for any make-up exam.

Without prior approval, homework, or tests will not be accepted after the due date.

You have 7 days from the date a grade is first posted to challenge a test score. After this time the score will not be changed.  

If the final project is a Group project, it will be graded as a group with a group grade.
 
 

Computer Crashes

The computer system on which you will be working is very well run by the people in the Division of Engineering Computing Services, (DECS).

Nevertheless, it simply is a fact of life that computers do "crash" (malfunction or stop working) from time to time. You will bump up against this fact during the rest of your working life with computers. We hope to help you learn strategies for dealing with these problems.

A computer (or the whole computer system) may crash during a lab. You will then have to work through the assignments in an open laboratory as soon as possible. You may even experience a computer crash during a test, and you will then have to schedule a makeup test at your earliest convenience.

Here are two frequently asked questions and our answers.

Is it fair that a computer crashed when I was trying to work? No: it is very unfair, but sometimes life is unfair, and this is one of those times. If there had been any way to prevent the crash, the ever-vigilant people in DECS would have done so. However, if you were caught in a crash, you have to make up the work.

Why do I have to make up a test, just because the computer crashed? I should get credit! Sorry, but the course model is that the tests measure what you have learned. We can't record a grade for work you have not yet done. You have to make up the test.