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A reflection report is a written document in Microsoft Word Lyx that reflects the high level of effort and professionalism expected in the engineering profession. Spelling and grammatical errors should be eliminated. Your team is expected to follow the formatting guidelines dictated on this page 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 will be uploaded as separate documents later on in the semester, but the report itself should be easily understood without having to look at the supporting documents.
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- Literature review - Discuss what is already known about your research area. Connect your objectives with what is already know known 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.
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The file name shall be "Report_team_name_semester_year.docxlyx". For example, the foam filtration report name would be "Report_Foam_Filtration Spring _Fall_2011.docxlyx"
The documents you submit will be word Lyx documents uploaded to the wiki. Before you upload your word document, ensure that you follow instructions on the Wiki Organization Guideemailed to your research team leader. All formatting should follow Grammar Guidelines for Reports. Before you begin writing, check out the Styles and Captions Formatting Template for Reports. While your report is submitted as a .lyx document, it should be easily converted to a PDF using the document class "article" or "article (Elsevier)." (Document-> Settings->Document Class) This means there are no error messages when you try to view the PDF. It is essential that you utilize the text styles provided by Lyx properly.
Each report should have a cover page including include the team name, team member names, and date. You will also identify primary responsibilities/roles and who is fulfilling which role in these two weeks (i.e. data analysis, experimental operation). To help facilitate knowledge transfer and learning, these roles should rotate throughout the semester so that every person does not just have experience, but is competent with all aspects of team success.
Research
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Writing
We have also provided guiding questions that are vaguely related to assist you in your writing.
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Posting Files on the Wiki
Post the file as submitted Your team should post only the final version of the report at the end of the semester to the wiki. See the wiki organization guide for directions on how to post documents. Note that all team submissions will have the same file name and will be posted as such to the wiki. Thus only the most recent version will be readily visible. The wiki will automatically keep all of the previous versions of the report.
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