Paper Assignment One of the goals of Rose-Hulman is to instill in you skills appropriate to your profession and for life-long learning. One aspect of this is for you to have an understanding of how contemporary issues shape and are shaped by mathematics, science, and engineering. The purpose of this assignment is to help you achieve this goal. This assignment will be part of the “Project” points of the course and it is not optional. Failure to get an A, B or C on this assignment will result in failure of the course. Because of this, you will have multiple opportunities to correct your work and to improve your grade. Assignment Find, read, and copy an article describing a current technology or problem is related to this course (I’m assuming the technology is the solution to some problem). Write a paper explaining how the technology or problem is affected by social concerns and trends as well as how the technology or potential solutions will affect culture and the environment. The article can be from a newspaper, WWW, magazine, journal, etc. I will particularly be looking to see if you 1. Demonstrate an awareness of how the problem is affected by social concerns and trends. 2. Demonstrate an awareness of how the proposed solution(s) will affect culture and the environment. When a final grade is assigned (several iterations may be necessary) you will be required to submit a copy of the report with bibliographic reference to the RosE-Portfolio. First draft due for peer evaluation: Lab of 7th week. Final paper due date: Monday of 9th week (turned in class and posted on RosE-Portfolio) Metrics that will be used to grade the paper include: 1. Is the paper related to the material covered in this course and is it appropriate for this assignment? 2. Does the paper explicitly demonstrate an awareness of how the problem is affected by social concerns and trends? 3. Does the paper explicitly demonstrate an awareness of how the proposed solution(s) will affect culture and the environment? 4. MUGS (mechanics, usage, grammar, spelling) Note: One easy way to explicitly demonstrate these is to use these terms in your paper “social concerns and trends”, “culture”, and “environment.” If the paper you chose does not lend itself to this discussion, then choose another one.Peer Evaluation Paper Assignment Reviewer Name _____________________________________________________________________ Student being reviewed _______________________________________________________________ Name of paper used for this assignment __________________________________________________ 5. In your opinion is the reviewed paper related to the material covered in this course and is it appropriate for this assignment? For example, is the paper long enough? Related in some way to vibrations? Circle a number. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Comments/suggestions/explanation of rating: 6. Does the student’s paper explicitly demonstrate an awareness of how the problem is affected by social concerns and trends? Circle a number. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree If you answered “agree” or “strongly agree” Circle in the paper where the author has demonstrated this awareness and label it “demonstrated #2”. Comments/suggestions/explanation of rating: 7. Does the student’s paper explicitly demonstrate an awareness of how the proposed solution(s) will affect culture and the environment? Circle a number.. 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree If you answered “agree” or “strongly agree” Circle in the paper where the author has demonstrated this awareness and label it “demonstrated #3”. Comments: 8. Rate the quality of the student’s paper in terms of MUGS (mechanics, usage, grammar, spelling). Circle a number. 1 2 3 4 5 Very Poor Poor Good Very Good Excellent Proofread the paper and mark spelling, grammar, usage and mechanics mistakes. You may also make suggestions as far as clarity and writing