Subsections

• Current Grades
• Rules and Regulations

Grading

Your grade in the class will depend on your lab reports. Make sure you have a notebook that makes duplicate pages (e.g. carbon-less copies), or that you can photocopy your lab writeup to be turned in for grading.

40%

Introductory Material

10%

Purpose statement

20%

Procedures (should be sufficiently detailed to allow reproduction of the lab results given only your notebook)

10%

Readability/Presentation

20%

Data tables/list (taken by you or your group)

40%

Discussion/Conclusions

10%

Graphical data summary/comparison (your group's or all groups)

10%

List/present other group's data

20%

Discuss data errors, variability in your own group's data, and between-group variability

Current Grades

Current grades will be posted on https://webct.utdallas.edu/webct/ticket/ticketLogin?action=print_login&request_uri=/webct/homearea/homearea%3F">WebCT, where students can access their own scores. Use your UTD computer login name and password, or see the links on The WebCT page for instructions on obtaining access. Please check your scores to make sure there are no errors. Direct any questions about the scores to your section's TA (see e-mail link in WebCT course listing). E-mailing the professors will only delay your request. Requests for corrections or checks must be made prior to the end of classes (6/19 or 7/31) to be considered.

Class notes in an alternative format (PowerPoint) are available online.

Rules and Regulations

The following are basic rules for the class

Independent Work

All graded work must be demonstrably your own. Feel free to discuss the lab with your group or classmates, but your lab report must be clearly distinguishable from others'. Copying others' lab reports will constitute academic dishonesty, and will generally cause a grade of zero to be entered for that lab.

Attendance

Attendance is mandatory. You are allowed to miss one of the five labs without direct penalty. Makeup lab information is available for each lab (see class website). A maximum score of 80% will be given for makeup labs.

Due Dates

Lab reports are due 7 days after the lab period. After that time a 2%-per-day reduction in score will be assessed. Be sure to stay at the lab long enough to get the full data set from each group, since you are required to present that data in your lab report.

Writeup Help

If time allows at the end of each lab, the TA will assist those wanting help in understanding or writing up the lab. Email your preliminary reports to the TAs by Wed. for assistance on lab writeup.

Electronic Communication

All class communication will be handled through the class WebCT website. If you don't already have access to WebCT, please arrange that (get a UTD computer username and password, see UTD WebCT Homepage. Your grades for each lab will posted to WebCT.