CSSE 290
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I'm not sure that the students who built the robot to the left used the KISS principle -- what do you think? |
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The team shown above used team tshirts as a team-building technique. What other techniques do you think helped them work effectively as a team? |
General course informationPrerequisites:The only prerequiste is an interest in learning about robotics and teamwork by doing service. In particular, you must have an interest in helping middle and high school students learn about robotics and teamwork. Meeting times and places:
Course Description that might someday be in the online Undergraduate Bulletin:The mission of this course is to use service learning to help students internalize and deepen their understanding of how to work effectively in teams, while at the same time helping students improve their communication skills, their problem-solving, and their technical knowledge of robotics. |
Learning Objectives (aka Course Outcomes)Students who successfully complete the course should be able to demonstrate:
To accomplish these goals, students will complete 3 team projects:
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Instructors
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ExpectationsAs a student in this course, you are expected to: Attend class and participate actively in the learning experiencesAssist classmates with their learning
Keep up with assigned workUse Subversion to record your work for this class and reflect upon it
Take responsibility for your own learning
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GradingThe learning objectives for this course are listed above. Because this is a service-learning course, we will assess your effort rather than directly measuring your success at the learning objectives. To that end, you will record your work in this course on a weekly basis, by completing an entry for the week in your ReflectionsOnRoboticsAndTeamwork document. Your weekly entries will determine your grade as follows:
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Texts, Software and Other ResourcesRequired text: NoneRequired software:XXX Other resources include:
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Collaboration and Academic IntegrityCollaboration is required in much of your work in this course. When you collaborate, you must: Properly credit your collaborators. Indicate clearly the extent of the collaboration. Failure to properly acknowledge collaboration can be considered cheating. Recall the Institute policy on academic misconduct: "Rose-Hulman expects its students to be responsible adults and to behave at all times with honor and integrity."The departmental statement on academic honesty has more detailed advice. Dishonesty on any work in this course may result in a lowered course grade or a grade of an F in the course. More important, such dishonesty steals your own self-esteem. So don't cheat. |
Syllabus revised November 2009 by David Mutchler and originally developed by David Mutchler and Steve Chenoweth, Spring 2005–06, based on earlier work by Mike Wollowski, Claude Anderson, Andy Kinley, Salman Azhar, Curt Clifton, Matt Boutell and others.