System Design - EE321X
Civilizations and Cultures Reflective Essay
TEAM 2016 + BJ
Topic: Functional Analysis/Allocation
Blackburn-Jones, Hodapp, Florendo, Romeo, Wanamaker, LaMagna
Date: 10 FEB 2015
Help Received: COL Barr
C&C Level 0 System Functionality
Diagram
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INPUTS:
Course Syllabus
Systems Engr.
Process
Team of Students
Half a semester
Wordpress™
Canvas
VMI IT
Research sources
on Canvas
Writing Center
C&C Rubric
Peer Evaluations
OUTPUTS:
 Published Essay
EE-321X Civs and Cultures
Reflective Essay
 Supporting
Artifacts
 C&C X credit
C&C Reflective Essay Model Flowchart
Begin your
Adventure
Perform
Requirements
Analysis
Identify abstract,
verifiable,
unambiguous, and
traceable
requirements
Perform research
survey to assess
potential
alternatives
Evaluate operational,
environmental, health
& safety, political,
legal, social, cultural,
and global factors
Use Evaluation
criteria to weigh
alternatives
Compose first
draft
Select strongest
sources for the
essay
Identify derived
requirements for
the reflective
essay
Allocate
performance
metrics to essay
components
Perform
Functional
analysis
Address major
concerns and rewrite
Compose final
draft and submit
on Wordpress
with artifacts
Was the
essay a
success?
Does the
draft have
major
flaws?
Yes
No
Submit draft for
Peer Review
Yes
Edit draft based
on peer reviews
Submit draft to
the Writing
Center
Celebrate at
Macados
No
No X credit for
you
Level 1 Subsystem Functionality
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INPUTS:
Course Syllabus
Systems Engr.
Process
Team of Students
Half a semester
Wordpress™
Canvas
VMI IT
Research sources
on Canvas
Writing Center
C&C Rubric
Peer Evaluations
Weigh Alternatives
Allocate
performance
metrics to
alternatives
OUTPUTS:
 Published Essay
Requirements
Analysis
Select strongest
sources for essay
Essay Composition /
Submission
Research Survey
 C&C X credit
Compose first draft
Submission on
Wordpress with
artifacts
Peer Review
Writing Center
Review
 Supporting
Artifacts
Functional Allocation/Analysis
Compose / Review Essay
 Identify three cultural factors (products, practices) influencing systems design
 Identify activities and assignments in the course have facilitated your learning about cultural factors
influencing design
 Select most distinctive feature of the culture(s) influencing systems design. May be more that one, or
may a distinctive factor that changes over time. Remember that what makes a culture distinctive may be
something that it has in common with another culture, or it may be something that makes it different
than others.
 Identify which factors stand out as significant in your mind, and why
 Using the distinctive factor(s), identify the course activities and assignments (that you’ve collected as
artifacts) which have informed and shaped your understanding of the culture(s) in this particular way.
Consider these experiences in relation to one another.
 Integrate artifacts supporting an analysis showing how you came to understand the distinctive CFs
influencing systems design.
 Express in a paragraph what you want to say in the essay, and why it’s worth saying.
 Get feedback on your paragraph
 Compose initial draft of your essay.
 Review drafts – provide feedback as team exercise/writing center
 Post essay/artifacts
 Publish essay/artifacts by mid-semester
Level 2 Functionality: Compose first
draft
Compose First Draft
3 Distinctive
cultural factors
influencing
design
Individually
Written
Meaningfully reflects
on the relationship
between what the
writer learned about
the target culture(s)
and how the writer
came to learn it through
the ePortfolio process.
Proper
grammar /
punctuation /
citation
MLA Format
for references
Advances a complex,
insightful thesis/ focus for
the essay that
identifies distinctive
components/ practices of
the target culture(s
1000 – 1250
Words
Select Essay
Topic
Supported by
artifacts