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'''Announcements''' ([[Archived-Announcements-2012|previous ones]])
'''Announcements''' ([[Archived-Announcements-2012|previous ones]])


* Many of you found the ''Personal Finance'' part of the course interesting. May I suggest you look into a longer [https://www.coursera.org/course/financialplanning free course being offered online from Coursera]. For those of you not familiar with Coursera, please [http://www.coursera.org/courses read their website], as this emerging trend of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course MOOCs] (massive open online courses) is really picking up, and is an effective form of SDL.
* [[Media:2012-4N4-Official-evaluation.pdf|Official course evaluation for 2012]] - thank you for the many constructive comments. I've been in discussions with a number of people (Tom Marlin, Don Woods, and your feedback in the course reflection and this evaluation). Based on this there will be some major changes in 2013, and even more in future years to ensure it stays one of the best at McMaster University, and internationally.
 
 
* Final grades for 4N4 are now available on [http://avenue.mcmaster.ca Avenue].
** Grading is according to the [[Course_outline_(2012)| Course outline]], but this is a [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtqiArsxgE8YdGxCVmNrNDV4UF9NMEdLeDlOaFdNQmc more convenient spreadsheet] to see how your grade was calculated.
** Please ignore any calculated grade in Avenue:
*** Ignore the midterm total
*** Ignore the final exam total
:: Avenue doesn't handle complex grading schemes and it definitely doesn't handle exceptions (e.g. people that miss midterms).
::The only values you should read in Avenue are the different values for each assignment and the values for each question in the midterm and final.
:: The correctly calculated grade is the column called '''FINAL GRADE'''. That is an integer-rounded value that will appear on your transcript.
:* Course median 76.4%, with a spread of 7.1 (extremely narrow spread, due to the high degree of group work in the course).
:* Course grades were normally distributed and no curving was done.
:* The final exam was graded out of 100 marks.
 


* Thank you again for your hard work in this difficult and unusual course. All the best for 4W4 next term.
* Thank you again for your hard work in this difficult and unusual course. All the best for 4W4 next term.

Revision as of 01:24, 8 January 2013

Engineering Economics and Problem Solving: CHE 4N4


Administrative Class materials
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Announcements (previous ones)

  • Official course evaluation for 2012 - thank you for the many constructive comments. I've been in discussions with a number of people (Tom Marlin, Don Woods, and your feedback in the course reflection and this evaluation). Based on this there will be some major changes in 2013, and even more in future years to ensure it stays one of the best at McMaster University, and internationally.
  • Thank you again for your hard work in this difficult and unusual course. All the best for 4W4 next term.
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  1. Course overview
  2. Group work and chairperson skills
  3. Engineering economics
  4. Process safety
  5. Life-long and self-directed learning
  6. Process troubleshooting
  7. Dealing with uncertainty (reference only)
  8. Process operability
  9. Enrichment topics

Course pack for 2012

Course wrap-up for 2012


Assignments, tutorials, projects, exams Course calendar
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Assignments/Tutorials

Assignment questions will be available here. Parts of the assignments will be covered in the tutorial period.

Please follow these instructions when submitting electronically.

Tests, exams and project

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