BME/ISE 1110 Fall 2014 Laboratory Syllabus Contact Information: Dr. Simon Tritschler E-mail: [email protected] Office: 246 RC Office Hours: W, F 9 – 11 AM and by appointment Phone: (937) 775-2563 Mr. Ron Butcher E-mail: [email protected] Office: 254 RC Office Hours: M 8 - 10 PM, W 4 – 10 PM, R 8-10 PM & Su. 5-10 PM and by appointment Phone: (937) 775-5074 Amena Shermadou E-mail: [email protected] Office: 243 RC (Cacioppo Lab) Office Hours: M 8 - 11 AM and by appointment Prateek Kalra E-mail: [email protected] Office: 226 RC (BME Imaging Lab) Office Hours: T, R 1:00 – 3:00 PM and by appointment Nirajan Thapa E-mail: [email protected] Office: 243 RC (Cacioppo Lab) Office Hours: F 12:00 AM - 3:00 PM and by appointment Phone: (937) 775-5074 Course Description: The course consists of computer-based and instrumentation-based lab sessions. Topics include: Introduction to Excel, Introduction to MatLab, Introduction to SolidWorks, problem solving and topics related to construction and design projects. Students will have the opportunity to examine different engineering practices and engage in practical hands-on laboratory experiences. Emphasis will focus on teamwork and ability to read and follow instructions.Course Objectives: - Introduce students to engineering principles through hands-on experience - Sharpen critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills - Develop skill in using engineering analytical tools and techniques - Foster collaboration among students through cooperative team project activities - Enhance the students’ sense of community by encouraging participation - Increase students’ probability of successfully completing the undergraduate engineering requirements Attendance: Attendance is crucial to any laboratory course or exercise. Lab attendance is mandatory. Attendance will be taken and recorded for all laboratory sessions. If students are absent or tardy they do not gain all of the benefits of hands-on experience. Repeating labs at a later date for the benefit of a few students who did not attend is neither practical nor fair to other students. Excused absences are days missed due to serious illness or death in ones’ immediate family only. An excused absence requires that the student present a doctor’s note or copy of a death certificate to the teaching assistant (TA) or professor. There will be no exceptions. Students who are granted an excused absence must meet with the professor or TA to determine how the missed assignment will be “made up”. Excused absences are not granted for car trouble, weather, traffic or other unfortunate circumstances. All other absences are considered unexcused absences and will result in a final grade reduction for the lab course of three (3) percentage points for each unexcused absence. Tardiness will result in a final grade reduction for the lab course of (1) percentage point for each occurrence. Failure to answer roll when called is defined as tardiness. When tardy, students are responsible for letting their presence be known to the teaching assistant immediately upon arrival. If a student fails to make their presence known upon arrival to the class they will be counted as absent. - Tardiness in excess of 20 minutes is counted as an unexcused absence. - Thirty (30) absentee points whether excused or unexcused will result in a grade of incomplete for the entire laboratory course.Academic Integrity: Cheating will not be tolerated. The instructor, lab coordinator and teaching assistants fully endorse the Wright State University policy to uphold and support standards of personal honesty and integrity for all students consistent with the goals of a community of scholars and students seeking knowledge and truth. Teamwork is encouraged but; all students must turn in their own work and generate their own original files for electronic submission. Working together or collaborating with your team mate(s) means assisting them in understanding the assignment, or exercise. Examples of academic dishonesty in this class include, but are not limited to: - Sharing or copying (sharing a file is as serious as copying a file) electronic files of any kind including data or text files, Excel files, MatLab files, SolidWorks files or Microsoft Word files. - Turning in an assignment or file generated by yourself in a previous attempt of this course. - Turning in an assignment or file generated by another student who has taken this course in the past. - Using another student’s blank file as a template. Students who are suspected to have committed an infringement will be referred to the academic integrity committee. Therefore students must avoid even the appearance of academic dishonesty. Electronic Submission and Filename Format: Electronic submission shall be made via e-mail. All assignments submitted by e-mail are due in the TA’s inbox by midnight, one week from the time the laboratory exercise was assigned. Do not wait until the last minute to e-mail your assignment as it may not reach the TA’s inbox until well after it has been sent. Use WSU Raidermail for the submission of all assignments unless instructed otherwise. Do not use gmail, hotmail, yahoomail or any other E-mail program. Become familiar with Raidermail and know how to attach files and assignments. Instructors and teaching assistants use e-mail to communicate important course and assignment information to students. Check your WSU e-mail on a daily basis! - Assignments submitted late will receive a score of no more than 75%. - Assignments that are in excess of one week late will receive a score of zero. E-mail subject lines must contain the student’s first & last name, course and section number, assignment number and submission. Assignment files must be named using the students first initial, last name, semester & last two digits of the year, department abbreviations, course number, section number, lab assignment number. The following example shows the filename & Subject line for the 1st Excel lab submitted by an imaginary student named Ali Al Hassan in section 01. Do not type/the words “Filename:” and “E-mail Subject Line:” shown in the example below. Please type your name, not Ali Al Hassan. Ali Al Hassan is given here as an example name only.E-mail Subject Line: Ali Al Hassan BME/ISE 1110L (01) F14 Lab E1 Submission 1 Filename: AAlhassan_BMEISE1110L_01_F14_LE1 Files submitted with an