MUTUAL GRADING EXPERIMENT

This is an experiment, as is this whole course!  Since most of our work in this class has been group and team oriented, I'd like some feedback from everybody on what YOU each think of each other's performance/ contribution.  This grading form is meant to be ANONYMOUS, so don't write your name on it!  And only form per student!
So please print this out, fill it out, and turn it into my mailbox in the dept. before you leave for the summer, and before the dept. leaves this bldg!  You can also email me your grades, but that'll blow your anonymoty (unless you take great pains!).

Please give each of the following PROJECT TEAMS a grade of A, B, or C (sorry, no Ds allowed!), according to their success as a team, meeting a goal together.  (Don't worry about knowing exactly who is on which team(s).  For the two individual projects (Tony's and Sean's) just consider the success of the project.
 

TEAM	GRADE
Truck Base Team
Max Base Team
Plexapod Team
R/T Linux Team
Tony's "Team"
Sean's "Team"

Please give each of the following a grade of A, B, or C based on how much of a contribution AND HOW MUCH OF AN EFFORT this person made to the class, and what you think their overall grade should be, and how familiar you feel you are with their work in this class (thus you can grade someone whose work you know nothing about!).  Just be honest and don't worry:  your input will count very little!  (If it looks too much like a popularity contest, then out these results will go!)

THE COURSE

Finally, thanks for filling out the standard course evaluation form the last day of class, but I now think that the form is inadequate for a radically new course format like ours.  So please supplement that standard form of feedback by answering a few more specific questions:

• Do you think industry sponsorship of class projects is good or bad?  (Did the expectations of Zentropics/Megatel affect the course in negative ways?)

 
• Would you rather have built robots with the simpler 8-bit or 16-bit microcontrollers (e.g., Basic Stamps or BasicX), programming in some simple Basic, rather than have to deal with the complexities of configuring and installing Linux?

• Would you rather have had a course focusing on robot behavior (i.e., programming) rather than on robot design and construction?

• Were the expert groups worth having?  Should we have used and tested them more?  Or did they distract us from the project team work?
Thanks for your input, and all of your hard work!  You guys were the pioneers.