Thursday, September 27, 2012

A1 - Grading Comments


Grader's Comments - Common Issues

There were a fair number of individuals who failed to include even the average work requirements specified in the rubric and therefore lost significant points. The rubric should be your guideline as to what should be included in your site/submission. Other than that most of the students did very well on this first assignment and I urge them to continue putting this level of work into the assignments to create clear and complete sites.


J. Mitchell Comments

  • BbLearn now shows the grades for this assignment as well as the cumulative grade, which of course is the same for this first assignment.
  • You should find in BbLearn an Excel spreadsheet from the grader, John Braley, explaining his grading.

Improving Your Grade

As on all assignments except the last one you may improve your grade by correcting the problems in your assignment and notifying me that you've done so within one week of receiving your assignment grade.  Note that you must be very specific about changes you've made.  We don't want to have to reviewing anything except the changed portions.


Sunday, September 23, 2012

Integrative Design

In the first class we’ll watch a video, Performance by Design, from Rocky Mountain Institute.  It provides examples what I believe are the way in which Architectural Engineers should work. 

I urge you to remember and review the goals and methods of this video as we move through AE-390 and AE-391.  We won’t follow that method in these two courses because understanding the components of a full design is important, but it will be the model that you’ll hopefully use when you engage in Senior Design.

RMI Performance By Design

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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Jim Mitchell