Occupational safety assignment

IE 411/561 Summer 2014

Team Exercise – General Instructions

I have divided each of the two safety classes (IE 411 and IE 561) into teams of four or five. Each team is geographically diverse, but share common blocks of available time. Each team will work on a single problem and then present a report to both classes.

Tasks

1. Establish contact with other members of your team. Each team has a private area in Canvas. Each area has its own announcements, discussion board, email, chat room, and file storage area. Because each team is geographically diverse, this area should be your primary means of interaction and coordination. Some teams have also used Skype, too.

2. As a team, decide on a team name. Let me know the name and I’ll add it to your team identifier.

3. Select the problem you want to do. I will post a list of problems at 8am MDT Thursday, June 26. Decide on your first, second, and third choice and then send me a Canvas email stating your choices. I will process the emails in the order in which I receive them. There is one list shared by both courses and each problem will be done by only one team. If your team is the first one to say they want a problem, it will get that problem. If all three of your choices have been taken, I’ll let you know and you can try again. Also, I will periodically update the list so you will know what has been taken.

4. Solve the problem. The details of this will vary from problem to problem. 5. Make a report. The report will consist of:

a. An index page which identifies your team and briefly describes the problem you worked on. Also, it will provide others access to all the elements of your report.

b. A one-page summary stating i. The name of your team and all members in it. ii. The problem iii. The solution iv. How you figured out the solution, including any false starts v. Anything interesting you found while doing this exercise. vi. The page is to be 8.5 x 11 inches in size, using fonts no smaller than

12 point, and having 1 inch margins all around. c. Supporting material, possibly including

i. Any computations or computation files (like MS Excel) ii. Any articles, etc. you used for reference

iii. Any detailed information you did not include in the summary. 6. Submit the report to me and I will publish it in both course. (More instructions on

this will be included in the drop box). 7. Class participation:

a. Read and then review your report and that of every other team in your course.

b. Rate yourself and each member of your team, indicating whether or not everyone did a fair share of the work.

8. Relax!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

I will add a Q&A page specifically for this exercise.

Note that this is not the project, but the collaboration and publishing processes may be similar.