A

: Engineering work is outstanding. Creativity and novelty are clearly observable. The project goes beyond simply calling a third-party API and CRUD functionalities and presents the best possible accomplishments given the difficulty level and experience level of the student team. The amount of effort invested is substantial.

To qualify for A-range grade, you must satisfy in addition one of the following requirements:

1. make your team project repo, agile management board, and presentation videos publicly available for posting on the course's gallery page, or
2. publicly beta test your project, either through Apple's TestFlight or Google's Testing Tracks and published it later on either Apple's AppStore or Google's PlayStore correspondingly.

B

: Engineering work is very good, though falls short in a few areas. Traces of creativity and novelty are observable. Project draws upon advanced coverage of ULCS coursework yet no noteworthy extension of knowledge is readily observable. The amount of effort invested is substantial but could be increased. Projects whose value proposition is met simply by calling a single third-party API, e.g., ChatGPT, Google speech recognition, or Amazon celebrity face recognition, would fall into this category and earn at most a B-range grade.

C

: Engineering work is minimally acceptable. Projects core functionalities do not extend beyond simple CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) operations. Design fails to materialize through a refined process. Questionable design decisions are noted. Design rationale is not well-documented or simply not credible or not sound from a technical perspective. The project is below expectations with respect to a number of criteria; however it does score some successes which suggest project for the future. Students appear to be minimally prepared to undertake such endeavors unless significant refinement is implemented.

D

: Engineering work is questionable. Most deliverables are substandard. The project draws upon shallow and limited knowledge base. Given the difficulty level, accomplishments are minor although promising in certain aspects. There is potential that a fully functional prototype could be delivered if additional time is allotted.

E

: Project could not possibly be classified into any of the above categories.

Acts of cheating and plagiarizing will be reported to the Engineering Honor Council. Cheating is when you copy, with or without modification, someone else's work that is not meant to be publicly accessible. Plagiarizing is when you copy, with or without modification, someone else's work that is publicly available without acknowledging the original author. Please further review the College of Engineering Honor Code.

Due to the nature of the assignments, no late work will be accepted. All presentations must be submitted through Canvas by the deadline and, where requested, link to video posted on a Google spreadsheet. If you do not turn in an assignment by its due date, you will receive a zero for the assignment.

You will have about two weeks to complete each assignment or quiz. Extensions will be given only for documented medical and family emergencies.

Cloud services such as compute engine (AWS or GCP), git repo (GitHub), collaborative apps (Trello, Figma), video hosting site (YouTube) have been known to become inaccessible for 24 hours or more. Video encoding and uploading can take longer than you expected. Your laptop could crash or you could be locked out by Bitlocker or other security measures on your laptop. CAEN/ITCS computer labs could be full or closed and machines slowed down due to overload. Your network/WiFi could be down. NO extension will be given for any of these or other technical issues. Plan on them happening and have your work done a couple of days before any due dates. Extensions will also not be given for job interview nor any other non-emergency activities.

Keep a backup of your work off-site, for example, on a remote git repo, and keep your backup fresh.