Evaluation    

Regardless of the above percentages, any student who completes fewer than 80% (10 Laboratory assignments or 2 ½ weeks of laboratories) of the assignments will receive a failure (F) for the course.

Assignments will be collected at the beginning of the next laboratory session. Late drawings will NOT be accepted, unless prior arrangements are made with your instructor.

Students are encouraged to work together but each student is required to do their own work. Tracing the sketching assignments or sharing CAD data files are examples of cheating. Any instances of cheating will be referred to the Dean of Students.

  Every assignment will have a corresponding naming convention to assist in quick return of graded materials. This naming convention will also correspond to the filename of any saved CAD homework. See example below!

 

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Naming convention

 

01_Last Name_First Initial_Assignment

     

 

All assignments will have your full name and section number printed or written on it!

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Student Conduct and Policies

No swearing, or derogatory comments about, or towards, any member of the class will be tolerated in any class period. 

No food or drinks of any kind will be allowed in any lab sessions. 

Students are expected to arrive on time for all class and lab sessions. 

Standards set by Purdue University as outlined in the Student Handbook and the University Regulations (1996-1997) will be observed in this course. Students are expected to be present at each and every meeting of the class. In the event that a student must miss a class period, they must inform the supervising instructor of the course of their absence and NOT a teaching assistant (TA). Should the student not be able to reach the instructor, they are to leave a message for him/her at their office with the secretary. Should circumstances not allow this, the student may contact the Dean of Students Office and explain their emergency. The Dean's office will then pass the word along to each of the student's professors for them. Upon your return to Purdue, contact the supervising instructor as soon as possible in order to make arrangements for work, handouts, quizzes, or tests that they may have missed. The supervising instructor has the final word on what work, etc. students may be allowed to make up. Every student has the right to appeal to the university any decision made by his/her supervising instructor.

Late assignments will not be accepted unless prior arrangements have been made with the Instructor and because of extreme circumstances. (Not coming to lab, or forgetting, doesn't rate as an extreme circumstance.) 

No student will be allowed to make up any written exam, lab practical, exam, or quiz unless they have an official or medical excuse.

Standards set by Purdue University as outlined in the Student Handbook and the University Regulations (1996-1997) will be observed in this course. Any student found participating in cheating, plagiarism, copying material from another person's disk, using illegal cribs or other materials during a written examination, lying to course instructors and lab assistants about his or her own work, stealing tests, quizzes, or answer keys, and any such activities will be considered in conflict with the printed academic honesty guidelines as set out by Purdue University and the School of Technology. In such cases the matter will be reported to the Office of the Dean and the appropriate Purdue University administration officers for consideration and possible disciplinary action.

Students who have special needs, i.e. hearing or visually challenged, etc., or in need of tutoring, etc., may contact the Dean of Students Office located in Schleman Hall, Room 207, 494-1747 for further assistance.

Hardware

Any TCN computer lab will have the adequate hardware needed for this course.

 

Software:

 3D Studio Max or Viz , AutoCAD 2007, Adobe Premiere, PhotoShop, Internet Explorer, Email

 

Course Administration

Lecture and  Demonstration	Lectures will concern the body of knowledge surrounding Construction Graphic Communication and traditional production graphics. The demonstrations will cover specific operations and techniques. You are expected to be at both of these (see Excused Absences below). If you have to miss a lecture or a demonstration, permission for an excused absence must be granted by the professor before the lecture or demo. It is your responsibility to secure all materials and information presented in lecture or demo, even with an excused absence. Lectures and demonstrations WILL NOT BE REPEATED. Lectures or demonstrations may be tape recorded with the professor's permission.
Excused Absences	You must clear any absence beforehand with the instructor. The instructor will require documentation before the absence is excused. Absences due to illness or other circumstances beyond your control will be handled on a case-by-case basis and will require documentation.  Note: Attendance will be taken at all meeting times. Any student who accrues 4 or more unexcused, missed class meetings will automatically fail the course. A class is defined as one (1) lecture, one (1) demonstration or one (1) lab.
Outside work	Outside work WILL BE NECESSARY for most assignments. You will not be able to complete the assignments if you work only in class.
In case of Emergency	In the event of a major campus emergency; course requirements, deadlines, and grading percentages are subject to change that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances. Here are ways to get information about changes in the course; Vista web page, my email address:ccory@purdue.edu, or my office phone 494-8730
File security and disks	YOU are responsible for the security of your files-Period! You should have MULTIPLE COPIES on MULTIPLE SOURCES (personal storage device, ITAP server) of your files at all times. Given the uncertainty of storage devices, loss of data, files, or other associated items needed for a project will require that you recreate your work, with no exceptions.
Laptops, pagers and  cell phones	It is NOT permissible to bring a laptop (notebook, palmtop) computer to class for the purpose of taking notes- use a pencil and paper. Similarly, we will not tolerate beeping, chirping, ringing (or any other sound) from a pager or cell phone in class. If you must use your cell phone for any reason, you MUST leave the room.

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Record Keeping

Keep Track of all your files and grades. With 60+ students, errors CAN and DO occur with the recording your individual grades or groups of grades. It will be the student's responsibility to validate and keep track of personal grades for each assignment in class including midterm and final exams. Without validation, the professor will have to go by what is written in the grade book by the TA's. DON'T TRUST YOUR GRADE TO WHAT THE GTA's WRITE DOWN.

Plagiarism

Students ARE encouraged to work together BUT, each student IS required to do their own work. It is extremely EASY to identify who has copied files within AutoCAD. Don't let us catch you. Both the person obtaining the data and the individual supplying the file will be removed from the course and their names will be given to the Dean of Students for disciplinary action. Tracing the sketching assignments or sharing CAD data files are examples of cheating. Any instances of cheating will be referred to the Dean of Students.

Grading Philosophy

Superior work, professional	A	90%-100%
Above average student work	B	80%-89%
Average student work	C	70%-79%
Below average student work	D	60%-69%
Failure	F	0-59%

For information contact: Clark Cory