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This document should make sense to someone an senior engineer at Cornell who is unconnected to AguaClara and is majoring in a different field of engineering.
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A reflection report is a written document in Microsoft Word that reflects a the high level of effort and professionalism expected in the engineering profession. Spelling and grammatical errors should be minimaleliminated. Your team is expected to follow the formatting guidelines dictated on this page , but and utilize your best judgment when writing these reflections.
These reports should take significant effort, time and thought. We anticipate that each team member on average should spend about an hour every two weeks with writing or editing. Supporting data and/or code should be uploaded as separate documents, but the report itself should be easily understood without having to look at the supporting documents.
The report should include the following sections with some flexibility based on the scope of your project:
- Literature review - Discuss what is already known about your research area. Connect your objectives with what is already know and explain what additional contribution you intend to make.
- Methods - Explain the techniques you have used to acquire additional data and insights. The techniques should be described in sufficient detail so that another researcher could duplicate your work.
- Analysis - Connect your work to fundamental physics/chemistry/statics/fluid mechanics or whatever field is appropriate. Analyze your results and compare with theoretical expectations or if you have not yet done the experiments, describe your expectations based on established knowledge.
- Conclusions - Explain what you have learned and how that influences your next steps. Make sure that you defend your conclusions. (this is conclusions, not opinions!)
- Future work - Describe your plan of action for the next several weeks of research.
It is common for students to draft reports that are full of opinions and unsubstantiated conclusions. Defend your conclusions using your engineering skills. If you have an opinion (hypothesis) that you wish to include, explain how you will test your hypothesis.
Formatting
The documents you submit will be word documents uploaded to the wiki. Before you upload your word document, ensure that you follow instructions on the Wiki Organization Guide. All formatting should follow Grammar Guidelines for Reports. Before you begin writing, check out the Styles and Captions Formatting Template for Reports in Word.
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Submission
You must e-mail the reflection report to the Team Leader , Monroe, and either Research or Design Leader the name and location of your deliverables including the reflection report as well as any supporting documents/files and Monroe by Friday at 5 PM. Due dates for these reports can be found on the current semester syllabus. Ensure that you store your reports in your team's folder in the gmail account you log into with a ( username and password ). Late reports will be penalized 10% each school day that they are not turned in.
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Posting Files
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on the Wiki
When you receive your file back with comments and a grade, make the appropriate corrections (remove the grade!) and then upload your file to the wiki.
To interface the document with the wiki utilize the AguaClaraClean macro and save the re-formatted document with an appropriate name and ensure that it is MicroSoft Word 97-03 version (.doc) and not the newest 2007 version (.docx). Navigate to the wiki page where you would like to add the document as a child page. On the drop-down menu "Edit" click "Attachments." Save your file to a secure location and then "Browse" for your file. After you have located your file, click "Attach file." Next, edit your child page and type in the code that will ensure that the file will be viewed. The code may be copied in Wiki Markup mode.
If you cannot use the AguaClaraClean macro, then you will have to manually convert all images to .png format. You can do this by cutting and then pasting the image as a png or can do so by cutting and pasting image in powerpoint as a pngSee the wiki organization guide for directions on how to post documents.