Bonus Projects
You can get 0-5% bonus points by doing a project. The actual grade you get on the project will depend on thing like:
- How closely related is your project to the course content.
- How much effort you put into completing the project.
- How creative you were in using the course content.
- What critical thinking and problem solving skills you utilized.
- How well is your project report prepared.
Some suggested projects are
- Create a web page that takes one or more of the subjects in the course, describes them, and relates them to practical problems (see Don Luebbe's page on friction).
- Take a problem from "real life" and analyze and maybe improve it.
- Look at the history of how a product has improved and explore the role of mechanics of materials in its evolution.
- Select an advanced area of Mechanics of Materials and describe it.
Due date: Monday, April 27