10.426/10.626  Electrochemical Energy Systems

Hi, all.

For the final exam, you may bring and use any material which is posted on this year's Stellar page, as well as your own notes from the class, but nothing else for reference material (e.g. no textbooks, no printed material from elsewhere). Also, you may not use any electronics that are more general-purpose than a calculator. I would suggest bringing a calculator (at most, a scientific calculator; no graphing calculators), but you probably shouldn't need one at all.

As a general recommendation, you may find it useful to condense your notes into a few pages of important concepts and equations and focus on those (as was the policy in previous years), but you are not restricted in the number of pages you can have with you as reference this year.

Ray

Hi, all.

For questions about grading on the mid-term, please follow the guidelines for homework grading. In short, please provide a clear, written description of the situation (how it was marked, what you think is wrong with it, why you think you should be awarded points differently, etc.). Give this to me along with the graded work, and I'll get back to you.

Best,
Ray

Because the midterm exam is designed to represent individual work, there will be no office hours Thursday of this week. If you have clarification questions about the exam, please email me directly.

Good luck!

Hi, all.

As we get into the course and you receive graded homework, I wanted to establish a consistent way to deal with grading concerns.

First, for general comments / trends you find ("graders don't mark where/why I lost points"), please let me know. I can talk with the graders about things like this and, as long as they can fit it into the time they can spend on grading, they're receptive to feedback.

Second, if you have a specific issue with the homework grading that you'd like addressed, please come to me with your homework as well as a written statement of what you'd like looked at. I'll take these from you, communicate with the graders, and see what makes sense to do. This is a bit inconvenient, but I think it may be the best way to keep things as fair as possible. This way, I can talk with the graders to see how they graded this sort of issue. If they saw it as a common thing and took the same action for everyone, it will be unlikely we'll change the result (otherwise, we'd have to regrade the entire class's homework to be fair, which is logistically impractical). However, if they can recognize that it was a mistake on their part, we'll be able to fix it.

Best,
Ray