Hello all; welcome to AE390.
I am your grader for this term. I took this class in the winter of 2011. I am an AE major with a structural concentration, finishing my final term as a senior, and plan on continuing to graduate school this fall.
This is going to be a fast paced course, with assignments due every week or two, so I suggest you get used to staying on top of your work and managing your time. As you will soon find out, there is a rubric for each assignment. I will be grading by this rubric religiously. Make sure everything is included that the rubric specifies. I also suggest you organize your submissions as the rubric is laid out. This will ensure that I do not miss anything, and you don't accidentally get points deducted. I am not looking for exact answers and for you to know exactly how a system works, or to perfectly design it. I want to see that a significant effort was made and you tried to figure it out, and in the process learned something.
This class, more than perhaps any you have had so far is going to demand a lot with the least information. Most of the constraints will not be defined, there will not be an equation that you can churn out the answer with. You will often have to estimate, and use rules of thumb, and make decisions and assumptions, because in the end it is much more valuable if you can use your intuition and research to come up with creative solutions to problems. A computer can solve equations; engineers identify the problems, create solutions and make decisions.
Some common mistakes I see in this course:
Graphics and tables with no explanation of what they represent, how they were obtained, or what they mean.
Long paragraphs of text-- tables, charts, bullets, and short paragraphs will almost always better relay your information.
Good luck and feel free to contact me with grading/regrading concerns at jbbraley@gmail.com.
Thanks,
John Braley
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