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www.webs1.uidaho.edu/fluids_rq
Course Objectives
The course objectives are the educational outcomes that students and
professor work together to achieve.
These objectives are very important. The faculty teaching
this course worked hard to choose words to make the
goals clear to you and to ourselves.
General course objectives and specific
course objectives are provided on the linked PDF files. Click on
general or specific.
In Class
Because studies show that students learn best by doing, we will have much
hands-on work in this class.
Because different students have different learning styles, while in
class, students will:
listen to professor
write notes
read text (paragraphs, tables, appendices) as
directed in class
describe concepts (to whole class or in groups)
describe problem-solving strategies (to whole
class or group)
Group expectations of students in class:
 | Be Professional
- Come to class (like a job--on time and no skipping)
- Come to class prepared (see schedule) and bring your text
- Treat peers and professors as professionals |
| Participate
- It's scary to think out loud - but participate anyway
- Contribute to your team
- Encourage/require others to contribute |
| Be learning-focused
- We learn by analyzing our successes and our mistakes
- Reviewing, and striving for continuous improvement, are at the
heart of learning
- Focus on good thinking and on understanding (not "right
answers") |
| Work hard (at least 6 hours per week outside of class) |
Grading
| Homework & Quizzes |
20% |
| Exams (3) |
60% |
| Final Exam |
20% |
Homework
| Homework will be assigned during each lecture. Assignments
are due at the end of the next lecture. This is intended to
support continuous learning. |
| Homework assignments are available in class and posted on the website |
| Scoring: Your grade will be proportional to the number of
problems that you work. If you only work one problem and there are two
assigned, the most that
you can get is 50%. Given that,
- Full credit: the work that is submitted satisfies all four
of the following criteria: (a) organized presentation, (b) correct
method(s) used and written out to document your work, (c) correct answer,
and (d) turned in on time.
- Partial credit: partial credit will be awarded for work that
partially satisfies the above criteria.
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| Format Considerations: The following aspects will also count
toward your homework grade:
--- Format for grader and professor - Multiple pages stapled,
name/assignment # on top of inside page, name/class/assignment # on folded outside,
engineering paper preferred.
--- Format for your understanding - always cast your work
in the context of Given... Find... and Box your answer.
For some of your problems, "Given" might be "given our course
notes and text", or "Given the information in appx Table
A.3..."
--- Units are critical - whenever any magnitudes
are reported, report UNITS. |
| Late homework is accepted until 4:30pm the day it was due.
Homework turned in later than that will be accepted only when a student has received
instructor approval, will receive only up to 50%, and only until solutions
are posted. |
| Solutions to homework problems will be presented on this web site. |
Quizzes
| Quizzes will be un-announced |
| They will be very straightforward |
| There will be 2 types of quizzes, written (traditional) quizzes and team
exercises |
| The objectives for the traditional quizzes are
3-fold:
- to motivate people to do the reading assignments prior to class (find
them on the schedule page)
- to reinforce concepts already covered in homework, to support
continuous learning
- to help you diagnose your strengths and weaknesses prior to the
exams and final |
| The objectives for the team exercise
"quizzes" are to:
- give people the advantage of hearing and sharing other people's
problem-solving tactics
- develop team skills
- NOT compete - team grades will vary from 90 to 100 and will depend on
everyone contributing |
| There will be many quizzes - at least 5 - so even if you do poorly on one
of them, you can still recover
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