Lecture section L02 meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon in EN A 103.
All laboratory sections take place in ICT 215, except for B03 and B04--those two sections will share ICT 215 and ICT 216.
DAY TIME SECTION LAB INSTRUCTOR Thu 2:00pm-3:15pm B01 to be announced Thu 9:30am-10:45pm B02 to be announced Thu 3:30pm-4:45pm B03 Dr. Norman Thu 3:30pm-4:45pm B04 to be announced Fri 2:00pm-3:15pm B05 to be announced
In addition to Dr. Norman, there will be one other lab instructor in this course. The name of this instructor will be announced in the lectures and on the course Web page as soon as the appointment has been made.
Please note the number of your lab section. (``B01'' stands for ``laBoratory section 1''.) You should write your lab section number on every assignment you hand in and type it into every file of source code you work on.
Tutorial section T01 meets Tuesdays at 2:00pm in EN E 239.
(Note the correction in the following sentence.)
Tutorial section T02
meets Thursdays
Tuesdays at 4:00pm in EN E 239.
This course will follow the textbook closely. To be successful in this course, students should spend a significant amount of time reading and re-reading sections of the text that are covered in the course.
This does not mean that you should not get help from others while you are doing your assignments. You are encouraged to discuss the assignments with instructors and fellow students, since this is one of the best ways to learn the material. However, you should not let anyone write your programs for you. When you hand in your assignments, ask yourself two questions:
Do I understand every line of code I wrote?The answer to both questions should be YES.
Could I do this assignment over again without any help?
Computers allow electronic copying of programs, which makes it very easy to cheat in a course like ENCM 369. If you are caught cheating you may be reported to the Dean's Office for appropriate discipline. If you cheat and don't get caught, you are still in trouble, because examination marks count much more than assignment marks in your final course grade.
Therefore, your instructors believe that distributing solutions to lab exercises before the lab assignment due date is a serious form of academic misconduct. If we discover such activity, we will report it to the Dean's Office immediately. Distributing solutions means making solutions available to other students via paper copy, electronic mail, Web site, or any other medium.
If you don't hand in some term work due to illness, domestic affliction, or another legitimate reason, your instructors are willing to make accommodations, but only if you report the problem to Dr. Norman (not the other lab instructor, and not a graduate teaching assistant) as soon as is reasonably possible. Accommodations for missed term work will be decided on a case-by-case basis; typically they will involve either accepting lab assignments after the due date or making changes to the weighting used to compute the course grade.
There will be one mid-session test. The date and time of this test have not yet been decided. It is likely that a common test for sections L01 and L02 will take place one evening shortly after Reading Week. When the details are known, they will be announced in lectures.
The mid-session test and the final examination will be closed-book--you may not bring any books or notes. You may not use electronic calculators or computers during either the mid-session test or the final exam.
Here is the weighting that will be used to assign grades:
Lab assignments: 20% Mid-session test: 30% Final examination: 50%
Regardless of your assignment and midterm marks, if your mark on the final exam is less than 40 percent, you will fail the course. Regardless of your assignment and midterm marks, if your mark on the final exam is greater than or equal to 40 percent and less than 50 percent, your grade will be D+ or lower.
Conversion from a score out of 100 to a letter grade will be done using a scale determined after the final examination has been marked. This allows the creation of a scale appropriate to the relative difficulty or easiness of the mid-session test and final exam.
As a rough guideline, here is the scale used in last year's version of the course:
For example, a student with 18.77 / 20 for labs, 19.00 / 30 for the mid-session test, and 37.08 / 50 for the final exam would have got a course score of 18.77 + 19.00 + 37.08 = 74.85 and would have been given a B- in the course.ENCM 369 Winter 2003 (Last Year's) Letter Grade Formula course grade minimum course score A+ 93.5 A 89.0 A- 84.5 B+ 80.0 B 75.5 B- 71.0 C+ 66.5 C 62.0 C- 57.0 D+ 51.0 D 45.0
The scale used this year will be similar to but probably not identical to last year's scale.
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
POLICY FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF FOIP REQUIREMENTS
Protection of Student Examinations and Course Work Under the
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
of the Province of Alberta
The following outlines the Faculty of Engineering policy that will
ensure that examinations and term-work of students in engineering
courses are protected with respect to privacy. The philosophy behind
the policy is that marked student examinations and term-work
(hereafter called ``student's work'') should be available only to the
student and to staff in the Faculty of Engineering who have a need to
see the material. This includes academic staff, graduate assistants
and support staff.
1. All student's work will be returned in class, laboratories, or
tutorials, (hereafter called classrooms), as appropriate.
2. Staff members will take reasonable steps to supervise the return of
the student's work in classrooms. It is not required that each
student be called up by name to receive his/her work.
3. The person returning the student's work in the classroom has the
right to see identification from the student before the work is
returned.
4. Material that is not collected by a student during the first
occasion when it is brought back to a classroom will be returned to
the classroom at reasonable intervals by a staff member.
5. Students shall not approach instructors, graduate students or
support staff in their offices to pick up their work.
6. Term-work not picked up by a student at the end of the term shall
be retained on file by the department responsible for the course
for a period of one year. The Faculty will retain final-examination
papers for a period of one year.
7. Any student's work that may be exposed to the view of other
students shall not have the grade or mark displayed on the front
page.
8. A student's name and U of C ID number shall not both be written by
the student on the cover page of any work submitted for evaluation.
9. A student shall not pick up any marked work that does not belong to
the student.
10. This statement shall be attached to every course outline handed
out in the Faculty of Engineering. Departments may attach
additional statements to courses controlled by them.
The URL for the ENCM 369 Home Page is
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/Norman/encm369winter2004/