Adapted from Source: http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/grading/Grading.html
Some components of your grade are individual, some are common to your team section, and others are shared by your entire team. The project workflow illustrates how and when a team’s sections combine to make a team. In order to receive section and team-wide grade components, an individual must actively contribute to the milestone.
| Categories | Deliverable | % Course Grade | Assigned To … |
| Assignments (20%) | 10 Weekly Assignments | 20 | Individual |
| Lab Projects (20%) | Mechanism Design Report (I, II, III, IV) | 5 | Task Force |
| Design Notebook | 10 | Individual | |
| Peer Review | 5 | Individual | |
| Final Presentation & Report (30%) | Design Need Report | 5 | Task Force |
| Engineering Feasibility Report | 5 | Task Force | |
| Fabrication & Cost Report | 5 | Task Force | |
| Testing & Optimization Report | 5 | Task Force | |
| Final Report & Presentation | 10 | Team | |
| Final Exam (30%) | Final Exam | 30 | Individual |
Individual lab instructors assign grades to students in their task forces, upon review by the course instructor. All instructors work in close communication with each other – results after each milestone are discussed to ensure that grading is equitable between task forces within a team, and between teams.
Additionally, teams will obtain design feedback from several other course staff after each major project milestones. Also, after each milestone, this collective feedback is discussed in the lecture since the primary purpose of reviews is to help improve the projects and to facilitate a discussion of what approaches worked well and what can be improved upon.