ENGG1000 – CSE School Outline
Session 1, 2008
Staff
Tim Lambert is School Coordinator. Email: lambert.en1000@cse.unsw.edu.au
Consultation times: K17 G01 Mon 12-2 Wed 3-4
Assessment
Marks |
Item |
Due Date |
Hand in |
Rationale and Assessment Criteria |
5 |
Week 2 |
In Monday lecture |
To promote reflection on the impromptu design exercise and to assess English language proficiency. Assessed on the basis of English language proficiency. |
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5 |
Diary |
Weeks 3-12 |
On Wiki |
To promote reflection of the design process, you must keep a diary of what you did each week. 0.5 mark each week if diary is satisfactory. |
30 |
Reflective LearningPortfolio modules |
Weeks 4(5), 6(7), 8(9) |
CPR system |
To promote reflection on the design process as part of the experiential learning process. Assessed using calibrated peer review to develop the skills of critical review and self-assessment, as well as to allow rapid, individualised feedback. There are 10 marks for each portfolio, part of which is for your submitted work and part for your evaluation of others. There is individual preliminary work to complete and submit for each portfolio before your group meeting. If you do not complete and submit the individual pre-work by the date indicated in IndividualProjectSubmission, you will receive a zero for that learning portfolio submission. The first due week listed is for the submission of the individual text (on Fridays at 5pm), the one in brackets is for the evaluations of the work of others (on Fridays at 5pm). |
5 * |
Warm up task (RobotSumo) performance |
Week 6 |
In Monday lecture |
The better your design performs in testing, the better your marks will be! This is here as an incentive to produce a good design. |
5 * |
Warm up task report |
Week 6 |
On Wiki |
To practice working on a group report, your group must write a report on your design and well it performed in the warm up task. |
10 * |
Preliminary design performance |
Week 8 |
In Thursday lecture |
Present to help prevent time scalloping during the construction process. This will help you go through the testing and commissioning phase of design instead of discovering that your designs don’t work on test day. |
25 * |
Design documentation |
Week 12 |
On Wiki |
20 group marks for a final report, which is assessed based on the quality of communication including readability and diagrams, and also on the quality of the engineering presented. 5 group marks for minutes of meetings, which are to be submitted weekly. |
15 * |
Final design performance |
Week 11-12 |
In Thursday,Monday lecture |
The better your design performs in testing, the better your marks will be! This is here as an incentive to produce a good design. |
* |
Peer assessment |
Weeks 10, 12 |
Via ipeer |
A peer evaluation process will be used on three occasions through the semester. The first evaluation is quick, and for the purpose of giving you an idea of how well you are contributing to the team. The final time is more comprehensive, and will be used to distribute the group marks between the different members of the team. If you haven't pulled your weight, your group-based grades may be scaled down (on the other hand if you’ve really performed well, your grades may be scaled up). |
100 |
Total marks for the course |
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Your marks are available at this link.
Course Schedule
Faculty lectures are in Clancy Auditorium. School lectures are in Law Theatre G04.
Week |
Time |
Location |
Staff |
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1 |
Monday 2-4 |
Clancy |
Faculty |
Faculty intro |
Thursday 2-5 |
Clancy |
Faculty |
Impromptu design |
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2 |
Monday 2-4 |
Clancy |
Faculty |
Impromptu Design Review |
Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Kutay |
Team Formation |
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Easter break |
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3 |
Monday 2-3 |
Physics Theatre |
Problem Definition |
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Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Introduction to NQC and Lego |
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4 |
Monday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Buckland |
How to work in groups |
Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
NQC |
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5 |
Monday 2-3 |
Physics Theatre |
Conceptual Design |
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Thursday 2-5 |
Physics Theatre |
Mort |
Report Writing |
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6 |
Monday 2-5 |
Law G04 |
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Thursday 2-3 |
Physics Theatre |
Bushell |
Team Development |
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7 |
Monday 2-3 |
Physics Theatre |
Evaluating the Design |
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Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Concurrency |
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8 |
Monday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Depth first search,Mazes |
Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
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Preliminary rescue testing |
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9 |
Monday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Preliminary rescue testing continued |
Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Preliminary rescue testing finished |
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10 |
Monday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Sammut |
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Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Q&A about rescue |
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11 |
Monday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Practice rescue |
Thursday 2-3 |
Law G04 |
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Rescue competition part 1 |
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12 |
Monday 2-4 |
Law G04 |
Lambert |
Rescue competition part 2 |
Thursday 2-3 |
Clancy |
Faculty |
Wrap up |
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Your group will also have a meeting with your tutor in a tutorial or lab 3-5 on Monday or Thursday:
ClassID |
Tutorial |
Lab |
Tutor |
Teams |
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M15C |
mon15-harp |
Mon 15:00 - 16:00 |
RedC 2035 |
Mon 16:00 - 17:00 |
Harp EEngU |
CharlesMa (cjma056) |
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M15D |
mon15-oboe |
Mon 15:00 - 16:00 |
Webst 250 |
Mon 16:00 - 17:00 |
Oboe EEngU |
TimothyPort (tapo125) |
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M15E |
mon15-spoons |
Mon 15:00 - 16:00 |
K17 B01 |
Mon 16:00 - 17:00 |
SpoonsMEnU |
SimonneMautner (simm) |
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M15F |
mon15-bell |
Mon 15:00 - 16:00 |
RedC 3037 |
Mon 16:00 - 17:00 |
Bell MEngU |
IbrahimTaoube (itao818) |
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H15C |
thu15-leaf |
Thu 15:00 - 16:00 |
RedC 3037 |
Thu 16:00 - 17:00 |
Leaf MEngU |
StuartRobinson (stuartr) |
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H15D |
thu15-spoons |
Thu 15:00 - 16:00 |
Webst 251 |
Thu 16:00 - 17:00 |
SpoonsMEnU |
XinGuan (xing) |
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H15E |
thu15-harp |
Thu 15:00 - 16:00 |
Webst 250 |
Thu 16:00 - 17:00 |
Harp EEngU |
AaronTay (ajsb317) |
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H15F |
thu15-oboe |
Thu 15:00 - 16:00 |
RedC 2035 |
Thu 16:00 - 17:00 |
Oboe EEngU |
JamesHatherly (jamesh) |
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Facilities
Your team will be provided with one Lego Mindstorms kit (either the older RCX or the newer NXT models) and a locker in the K17 basement where you can store your kit and maze components. It is the responsibility of your group to take care of the kit. The Brixcc programming environment is available in any cse labs, but we ask you to use the ones in the EE building since they have more space.
Teaching Strategies
In the CSE project, although there will be lectures in many weeks as indicated in the course schedule, the course progression is driven by your need to meet milestones in the project. Each week you will have a one hour tutorial meeting with your mentor and one hour in a computing lab with him. Your academic mentor will sign off your notebooks at the last used page, will work through and offer advice on any problems you may be having as a team. Your mentor is intended as a technical resource, although sometimes they may be able to offer advice. Your mentor will help you with advice on what to do if you have trouble and may help to critique and examine your ideas, but will not offer his own – so don't ask!
References
Baum, Dave. Definitive Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS, 2nd ed. Apress. 2002. ISBN 1-59059-063-5.
Ferrari et al. Building Robots With LEGO® Mindstorms: The Ultimate Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs. Syngress. 2001. ISBN 1-928994-67-9.
Yellow Form
School policy on administrative matters relating to undergraduate students, including matters relating to examination procedures, and what to do in the event of illness or misadventure, may be found on the CSE yellow form