Schedule
There are no regular labtimes. Lectures MWF 4-5p in WLH2204.

• Mon 4/3 4-450pm: Team organization and project planning workshop
  • slides
  • Gantt chart sample 1, sample 2
• Mon 4/10, Wed 4/12: Project plan presentations by groups.
• 4/14 - 4/21: no lecture
• Mon 4/24, Wed 4/26: Engineering professionalism, report writing. Abbreviated MAE126A slides, 126B slides. Ethics. National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics, Ethics in MAE126B
• 4/28: No lecture
• Mon 5/1, Wed 5/3, Fri 5/5: Midterm presentations by groups
• Mon 5/8, 5pm: Midterm report due by email to course advisor jkleissl@ucsd.edu (all groups).
• Wed 5/10: Preliminary review of team mates due online.
• Mon 5/15: Draft final report provided to reviewing team.
• Mon 5/22: Report peer review due online.
• Sun 6/11 12 noon: Posters due. I will print.
• Wed 6/14 1130am: Final report due.
• Thu 6/15: EBU2 339: 1130am-230pm: Final poster presentation together with MAE156B. Invite family and friends.
• Fri 6/16: Final review of team mates due online.

Resources for Background / Literature Research

• Web of Science, Google Scholar

Grade Summary

• Midterm Presentation: 10%
• Midterm Report: 20%
• Report Peer Review: 5%
• Final Poster: 25%
• Final Report: 40%
• Peer review will be used to adjust grades individually.

Lab Space, MAE Staff Support:

• MAE126B groups building hardware can use EBU2 room 339 as storage / workspace (request access through Nick Busan, nbusan @ eng.ucsd.edu). Mark your work or storage space with a sign.
• Space in EBU 2 room 339 for assembly and storage of their project (Nick Busan and Chris Cassidy for door code access)
• EBU 2 room 315 Design Studio, Chris Cassidy, for handheld power tools, epoxy station, 3D printing
• EBU 2 room 321 Steve Roberts, for training and solder stations, sensor mentoring and electronics.
• EBU 2 room B30, Tom Chalfant, machining help, bandsaw, hand power tools. Large outside assembly area.

How to prepare for weekly meetings

• Consider the weekly meeting as a progress report delivered by a team from a subcontractor to a project leader. You should demonstrate that you made progress, present your accomplishments concisely and clearly, and ask questions that need to be answered to move forward.
• Come prepared to present your accomplishments. Your design, web research, data analysis, graphs is worth more than 1000 words. Either print it out or send me an email with relevant documents / weblinks before the meeting which i can display on my external monitor so that everybody can see them.

Meeting Times Prof. Kleissl
(weekly in EBU2 580, unless otherwise arranged) Email several time slots for me to choose from, not just a single time.

Time	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
1000-1020	E5	busy	avlb
1020-1040	avlb	busy	avlb
1040-1100	avlb	busy	avlb
1100-1120	avlb	busy	busy
1120-1140	avlb	busy	busy
1140-1200	avlb	busy	busy
1200-1220	avlb	avlb	busy
1220-1240	avlb	avlb	busy
1240-100	avlb	avlb	busy
100-120	E17	E15	busy
120-140	E12	E14	avlb
140-200	avlb	avlb	avlb
200-220	E13	avlb	avlb
220-240	avlb	avlb	avlb
240-300	avlb	avlb	avlb
300-320	avlb	E7	avlb
320-340	avlb	E2	avlb
340-400	E8	E3	avlb
400-420	lecture	avlb	avlb
420-440	lecture	E16	avlb
440-500	lecture	E10	avlb
500-520	avlb	E6	avlb
520-540	avlb	E1	busy
540-600	avlb	E9	busy
600-620	avlb	E11	busy
620-640	avlb	avlb	busy

Midterm

• Grading sheet used by course instructors for presentation (10% of grade) and report (20% of grade). Try to follow the order of the sections in your presentation / report, but if a different order would result in a better structure / less duplication that is fine.
  
• Presentations take place as listed in the schedule above during class. Please submit report as editable (MS Word, Google Doc or similar) document via email (no hardcopy) by May 8, 5pm to jkleissl@eng.ucsd.edu. .
• Example of excellent midterm presentation: 8 minute maximum. Provide project definition, description of project tasks & background research, experimental/design methods, work schedule, and progress to date. Speak freely and clearly, don't read off the projection screen, seek eye contact with the audience.
• Report should contain the same material as the presentation but include more details. Some hints:
  • List of figures/tables not required.
  • A short and clear report is better than a long, confused, and repetitive report. The report should be at most 3,000 words + title page + table of contents + references.
  • A good structure with subheadings is important. Number each section and subsection.
  • The methods section should describe the experimental / design approach for the entire quarter. How are you going to analyze the data? How are you going to evaluate the performance of the design? etc
  • Avoid bulleted lists. A report should consist of free flowing text. Use tables instead of bulleted lists, when necessary (in that case tables require captions and should be referred to in the text).
  • Figures and tables need captions. Captions should be detailed enough to understand the figure without consulting the text. All figures and tables have to be referred to in the text.
  • Proofread report for language and correct references to figures. A report full of small errors is hard to read and makes a bad impression.
  • Use large fonts for text in figures (e.g. axis labels). In matlab use "set(0,'defaultaxesfontsize',13);" at the beginning of every m file to change the default font size used in figures.

Report Peer Review

• Send the report to / share the report with the team one number ahead of yours, e.g. E3 sends to E4. The last team should send their report to team E1. If you do not know any of the team members, send the report to your course advisor, who will forward.
• Edit the report document directly, e.g. using track changes in MS Word or comments in Google Docs. Provide the edited document to the course advisor and the team.
• In addition to the detailed comments in the report, provide a higher level summary on how each section meets the report objectives electronic component of the review. Here is a pdf version. Each team should submit one form.

Team Peer Review

• Lower case UCSD email address (e.g. jkleissl@ucsd.edu)
• PID number with upper case A (e.g. A00000002)

Final

• Final presentation will be a poster session for MAE126B students Thu June 15 1130-230pm in EBU2 339. Grade sheet. Send poster to jkleissl@ucsd.edu by Sun June 11 12 noon to allow time for final revisions and printing. We will use this printer http://acms.ucsd.edu/info/cplot.shtml, so the power point should be 30 high x 42 inches wide. Sample Poster. The 'presentation' will be a 3-5 minute overview of the poster delivered to the course advisor some time during the poster session.
• Reports due June 14 at 1130am by email (no hardcopy). Report Grade sheet. Report specs: 8,000 words max (counting everything except for references, table of content; list of figures/tables not required)
• Example of excellent report with my comments in red.
• The final grade will consist of:
  • 40% of grade: max 14 page Report as electronic copy in native (e.g. MS Word, Openoffice etc) AND pdf format. Suggested contents and range of weights:
    • Title, abstract, and table of contents (1%). List of figures, tables not required.
    • 1. Introduction: project definition, background including literature survey and basic theory (4%)
    • 2. Methods: Theory, Experimental, and/or Design Method (7-12%) [What does one need to know to understand the project? How and what data was collected?]
    • 3. Results
      • 3.1. Results of design / experiment (9-14%)
      • 3.2. Errors and limitation (4%)
    • 4. Discussion and Conclusions. Future Work / Recommendations (8%)
    • 5. References (1%)
  • Overall presentation is graded as follows: Presentation and clarity of figures and tables, style and language, length

Budget

US$ 150 / group from MAE department. These funds can only be used for project-related expenses (usually parts) and have to be cleared by me. Index numbers are E1--AMEUE01, E2--AMEUE02, E3--AMEUE03, E4--AMEUE04, E5--AMEUE05, E6--AMEUE06, E7--AMEUE07, E8--AMEUE08, E9--AMEUE09, E10--AMEUE10, E11--AMEUE11, E12--AMEUE12, E13--AMEUE13, E14--AMEUE14, E15--AMEUE15, E16--AMEUE16, E17--AMEUE17. Reimbursement form
Additional funds can be disbursed by the project advisor and do not have to be cleared by me.