Course Expectations
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On the academic level, students are expected to have the
following:
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positive attitude ,interest in the work, eager to learn, self-motivation, ability to
overcome frustrations
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On the disciplinary level students are expected to:
- Respect class order and assignment dates.
- Care about attendance and interaction.
- Esteem the university regulations with respect to absence/attendance rate.
- Esteem the university regulations with respect to cheating or duplicated work.
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Student responsibilities to the course
- Technical
skills: every student should develop technical proficiency,
establish technical standards for himself, and constantly strive to improve. He
should make use of current developments in technological information,
become familiar with new materials, processes and equipments within and
outside of his domain. He should consider learning but with a choice which
directly relates to his discipline. Many excellent ideas are lost forever because
the individual could not technically produce what he had envisioned.
- Communication:
every student should develop his communicative skills
which should be visual, workable, numerical, and so on. Perhaps even more
ideas are lost due to failure in communication. He needs to sharpen his
awareness of connotation and learn to use them to his advantage.
Communication skills are essential in the research process.
- Research: every student should be able to interpret research data. Research
means asking questions, making observations, gathering information or data,
visual documentation, and so on. We are living in the age of information. The
student needs to learn computers and be aware of current developments. You
cannot afford to waste time and effort reinventing the wheel with each new
problem.
- Problem solving: every student should develop a sensitivity to the problem
and be able to identify a problem solving methodology. He should approach
problems in a way that goes beyond the norms. He should be a boundary
pusher. He should be able to organise and synthesize diverse bodies of
information, strive to see relationships between seemingly unrelated facts or
information data and be thoroughly prepared to work on several problems
simultaneously.
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Expectations for each assignment and project
- Student will be keen to attend all lectures and submit the related work.
- Assignments will be personally submitted at the appointed time.
- Assignments will be submitted as a hard copy accompanied by a digital one.
- All assignments should be precise and to scale (if required).
- Student should show full awareness about every detail of his work.
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Important rules of academic conduct
- Student should be intellectual.
- Student should have matured behavior and organized attitude in class.
- Students should work -individually or in groups- in a way that reflects
his
concern to learn and understand.
- In case of absence, student will be required to submit the former work which
will be graded as a late assignment.
- Every two late arrivals to the lecture will be considered as one absence time.
- University regulations will be applied in conditions of absence, cheating or
duplicated work.
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Group working
I expect most of the work in this class to be conducted by groups of students
working together. However, it is important that I try to differentiate between
individuals' input in order to assign grades. For this reason every piece of
work from your group should indicate who took the major role. If I am left in
any doubt I will assume you each contributed equally.