Note: the wikis are set to "private." To access your wiki go to http://my.pbwiki.com and log in. You will see your wiki in the list of wikis you have access to.
To write a report that accurately represents your design process, you will need to keep a detailed record of that process in the team’s lab notebook and notebookwiki. Your team will document the following:
Sketches and drawings(see below for advice on graphics and images in the wiki)
Tables of testing results
Calculations
Graphs
Responses to “Food for Thought” questions
Correspondence among team members or with faculty
In addition to providing notes to be used in writing reports, lab notebooks are also important for other reasons:
First, good records allow the team to frequently review progress and efficiently plan its next steps.
Second, in the event that a new member is added to a team or if advice is sought from an outside consultant, good records are necessary to quickly bring him/her “up to speed” with no loss of quality to the team’s work.
Finally, if something goes wrong with the design, good records are a “paper trail” that allows for a thorough review of the process to detect mistakes and, if necessary, determine liability. For all of these reasons, you need to document your design process in a detailed and organized fashion.
The typical standard for level of detail and organization is that someone else who has not been part of the team could reconstruct exactly what you did and reproduce the same results. Basic documentation protocols and practices will be covered in class. When in doubt, the more detail the better. Date and add your name at the bottom of every post you make.
Please note that an important assessment criterion will be how collaborative your notebookwikis are. That is, we will be looking to see how many members of your teams are actually posting. One team member should not be doing all the posting; everyone should be working with the wiki equally.
A note for students in Professor Brown's sections
I will post all wiki assignments on the Project 1: Bottle Rocket Design page. In addition to completing these assignments, you should be making steady progress on your Design Report. Be sure to keep a daily log of any activities related to the design and testing of your rocket. Remember that your goal is an effective and well-documented design process.
A note for students in Dr. Courtney's sections
A note for students in Dr. Harvey's sections
I will provide specific assignments for required wiki content. These should be added as separate wiki pages with links in your Sidebar. You may add additional documentation of your work on this project as needed. You may also customize your Frontpage as you wish, but please include a list of the names of your team members and a link back to the Sophomore Clinic Frontpage (the url in the syllabus). Remember that the wikis are graded.
A note for students in Dr. Wolff's sections
When you go to your team notebookswikis, you will see that I have set up a basic architecture, including sections on the front page which need to be filled in, a calendar for meeting and due dates, and a sidebar navigation scheme containing links to various pages. You will need to create more pages as you see fit. We will go over specifics in class.
On Graphics and Images
An important component of the engineering notebooks are the graphics--sketches, photos, etc. Due to the size limitations of the wikis (10MB) your team may not have enough space to upload all of your image files. If this is the case, we suggest the following:
In your HDrive, go to open the "public_www" folder (this will allow the images to be viewable via the Internet).
Create a new folder called "sophclinic" and open that folder.
Create two new folders: "rocket-images" and "windmill-images."
Place all images in these respective folders (it will be a good idea for backup purposes if each member of the team has a copy of each image stored in this way).
When you wish to insert an image into your notebook, click on the Link icon, and then enter the URL for the image, which will be something like this: "http://users.rowan.edu/~yourusername/sophclinic/rocket-images/yourimagename.properfileextension"
Readers of the page will be able to click on the link and see your image.
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