Course Information
ME 180
Engineering Graphic
Communications
Fall 2007
All Lab sections will meet in 1312 EB
Instructor: Bob Chalou
Section 001: T, Th, 10:20 - 12:10
Office: 2467 EB
Section 002: T, Th, 12:40 - 2:30, (Packaging)
Section 003H: T, Th, 3-4:50
Phone: 432-5260
Section 004: M, W, 10:20-12:10
e_mail: chalou@egr.msu.edu
Section 005: M, W, 12:40-2:30
Lecture time and Location: Tuesday,
9:10-10, b106 Wells Hall
Section 006: M, W, 3-4:50
Section 007: T, Th, 5-6:50
Office hours: Thursday, 9:10-10, Friday,
8:30-10, or by appointment
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Labs begin for sections:
1, 2, 3 and 7 on September 4th and
for sections 4, 5 and 6, September 6th
Academic Honesty: Article 2.3.3 of the Academic Freedom Report states
that "the student shares with the faculty the responsibility for
maintaining the integrity of scholarship, grades, and professional
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standards." In addition, the College of Engineering and the Mechanical
Engineering Department, adheres to the policies on academic honesty as
specified in General Student Regulations 1.0, Protection of Scholarship
and Grades, and in the all-University Policy on Integrity of Scholarship
and Grades, which are included in Spartan Life; Student Handbook and
Resource Guide. Students who plagiarize may receive a 0.0 on the
assignment or fail the course.
Accommodations for Disabilities: Students with disabilities should
contact the Resource Center for People with Disabilities to develop
reasonable accommodations. For an appointment with a counselor, call
353-9642 (voice) or 355-1293 (TTY).
Dropping this Course: The last day to drop this course with a 100
percent refund is 9/20/2007. The last day to drop this course with no
grade reported is 10/16/2007. You should immediately make a copy of
your amended schedule to verify you have dropped this course.
Religious Observance: If you wish to be absent from class to observe a
religious holiday, make arrangements in advance with the instructor.
Missing Class to Participate in a Required Activity: To be excused from
this class to participate in a required activity for another course or a
university-sanctioned event, you must provide the instructor with
adequate advanced notice and a written authorization from the faculty
member of the other course or from a university administrator.
Plagiarism Policy
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Plagiarism is not tolerated in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It shall be
punished according to the student conduct code of the University. Integrity and honesty
are essential to maintain society's trust in the engineering profession. This policy is
intended to reinforce these values.
For the purpose of this policy, plagiarism means
presenting, as one's own, without proper citation, the
words, work or opinions of someone else.
A. You commit plagiarism if you submit as your own
work:
1. Part or all of an assignment copied
from another person's assignment,
including reports, drawings, web sites,
computer files, or hardware.
2. Part or all of an assignment copied or
paraphrased from a source, such as a
book, magazine, pamphlet, web site, or
web posting, without proper citation.
3. The sequence of ideas, arrangement of
material, pattern or thought of someone
else, even though you express them in
your own words. Plagiarism occurs when
such a sequence of ideas is transferred
from a source to a paper without the
process of digestion, integration and
reorganization in the writer's mind, and
without acknowledgement in the paper.
B. You are an accomplice in plagiarism and equally
guilty if you:
1. Knowingly allow your work, in
preliminary or finished form, to be copied
and submitted as the work of another.
2. Prepare an assignment for another
student, and allow it to be submitted as
his or her own work.
3. Keep or contribute to a file of
assignments with the clear intent that
these assignments will be copied and
submitted as the work of anyone other
than the originator of the assignment.
(The student who knows that his or her
work is being copied is presumed to
consent to its being copied.)
Books:
No Book
Supplies:
White printer paper, Not Spiral Bound, No Graph Paper, No Lines
Sketch Pencils, Suggested, Prismacolor, Indigo Blue, (NOT
BLACK, NOT #2, NOT MECHANICAL)
Pencil sharpener
Course Objectives:
Successful completion of this course will enable students to:
Produce freehand, 2-point perspective drawings
Visualize 3-D parts from 2-D drawings
Have a basic understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and
Tolerancing, GD&T
Have a basic ability to read working drawings
Understand the fundamentals of the engineering design process
Use 3-D Solid Modeling software to produce part files through
basic assemblies
Computer Crashes
The computer system on which you will be working is one of the
largest and most complex ones at any university in the country,
and it is very well run by the people in the Division of
Engineering Computing Services, (DECS).
Nevertheless, it simply is a fact of life that computers do "crash"
(malfunction or stop working) from time to time. You will bump
up against this fact during the rest of your working life with
computers. We hope to help you learn strategies for dealing with
these problems.
A computer (or the whole computer system) may crash during a
lab, or worse, during a test, and the TA will help you as best as
s/he can to talk through the materials for the day. You will then
have to work through the assignments in an open laboratory as
soon as possible. You may even experience a computer crash
during a test, and you will then have to schedule a makeup test at
your earliest convenience.
Here are two frequently asked questions and our answers.
Is it fair that a computer crashed when I was trying to
work? No: it is very unfair, but sometimes life is unfair,
and this is one of those times. If there had been any way to
prevent the crash, the ever-vigilant people in DECS would
have done so. However, if you were caught in a crash, you
have to make up the work.
Why do I have to make up a test, just because the computer
crashed? I should get credit! Sorry, but the course model is
that the tests measure what you have learned. We can't
record a grade for work you have not yet done. You have to
make up the test.
Course Grading
Grading:
One lecture exam, 5%
Two lab exams,
20% each
Lab homework,
15% total
Project presentation, 40%
Final course grade will be based on the following
absolute scale:
90.0 and above
4.0
85.0 to 89.9
3.5
80.0 to 84.9
3.0
75.0 to 79.9
2.5
70.0 to 74.9
2.0
65.0 to 69.9
1.5
50.0 to 64.9
1.0
49.9 and below
0.0
Projects will be available the last portion of most lab
sessions. They will be graded at the beginning of
the next lab period.
If you choose not to complete them, it is virtually
guaranteed that you will not be successful in the
lab exams or final projects.
Each lab test is due at the end of the lab session that
the test is administered and must be saved in the
proper directory, which is;
T:\courses\personal\me180\lab_test1_sec(section number)
test 1,
for lab
T:\courses\personal\me180\lab_test2_sec(section number)
test 2
for lab
with the proper file name to receive credit. The proper file name
will be indicated on the test.
If you do not save the test properly
you will receive a 0 for the test.
Advanced notice is required to qualify for any
make-up exam.
Without prior approval, homework,
or tests will NOT be accepted after
the due date.
You have 7 days from the date a
grade is first posted to challenge a
test score. After this time the score
will NOT be changed.
The final project is a Group project
and will be graded as a group.