A

: Engineering work is outstanding. Creativity and novelty are clearly observable. The project 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 necessary but, by themselves, insufficient, requirements:

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

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 coursework yet no noteworthy extension of knowledge is readily observable. There are potential (but not necessarily substantial) improvements to the project accomplishments and the end product. The amount of effort invested is noteworthy but could be increased.

C

: Engineering work is minimally acceptable. App's 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, which will then be downloaded to the instructor's laptop for presentation. If you do not turn in an assignment by its due date, you will receive a zero for the assignment.

Other than presentation feedback, 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. NO extension will be given for any of these reasons. 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 and keep your backup fresh.