PL431B / PL531B - Map Analysis and Site Planning
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SYLLABUS
FALL 2002 - Credit Hours: 4 - SECOND HALF
Meets: Second Half of Semester - October 14 to December
4, 2002
on Mon-Wed 11:30 am - 1:40 pm
in SWFS (Forestry) Rm 034 - GIS Teaching Lab
Principal AutoCAD Instructor: KERSTIN STANFORD
E-mail: waggerla@hotmail.com
Office: Room 103, and if I am not in there, check in the graduate GIS lab in
Room 112
Office Hours: Wed 3-4; Thu 12:30-1:30 - available at other times by appointment
Other Instructor: ALAN A. LEW
E-mail: Alan.Lew@NAU.EDU
Office: SWFS Room 120, Phone: 523-6567; Office hours: Drop in & by Appointment
COURSE OBJECTIVES: In the first half of the class, you were introduced to the fundamentals of mapping for planning applications.
In this half of the class, you will:
ASSUMPTIONS/PREREQUISITES: Students are expected to have:
TEXTBOOK & MATERIALS:
(1) AutoCAD 2002 - No Experience Necessary - by David Frey (Sybex, 2001, isbn 0-7821-4016-5) - this was $30 at NAU Bookstore last Spring semester - it might be cheaper at Amazon.com and there may be used copies arround
(2) Land Development Code - City of Flagstaff - available from the Community Development desk at City Hall.
(3) World Wide Web-based materials, including a WORKBOOK and a VIRTUAL TEXTBOOK.
(4) at least two 3.5 inch High Density (2MB) Floppy Disks
LABS: During the labs you will be expected to work through the textbook and the exercises on your own with my supervision. Different students will learn AutoCAD at different rates. Some of you may never have to ask for my help at all (and may wonder why you need an instructor for this class -- this is the main complaint I get from student evaluations about this class.) At the other extreme are students who I will not only need help in class, but will need to arrange additional hours to meet with me outside of class for help in understand what is going on -- this has been less of a problem since I tightened the course prerequisites for this class.
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Note: You are not permitted in any of the Labs unless there is a Lab Attendant present. Lab Attendants include Lab Monitor hired by the College, a Lab Teaching Assistant hired to assist a class, or a Class Instructor. This policy applies to everyone in the GIS Lab. Grad Students can use the Grad Student Lab when no attendant is there.
This is essentially a LAB Course. YOU SHOULD EXPECT TO PUT IN EIGHT HOURS (or more) OF LAB TIME A WEEK OUTSIDE OF CLASS TIME. (That is two hours for each hour of class time). The actual amount will vary from week to week, with more hours likely at the beginning of the semester than toward the end. Note that each week's work builds upon the previous week. If you fall behind you will find that it takes an enormous amount of time to catch up. Therefore, DO NOT FALL BEHIND. As the course progresses, you will be doing increasingly more work that applies what you are doing in your textbook to mapping and public planning applications.
The Lab will NOT be available when a Class is in session, such as ours.
MAKE A PERSONAL BACKUP COPY OF EVERY FILE YOU TURN IN ON DISK!!!
- Often you will need to use files you turned in for the next week's assignment
- If the disk you turn in is accidentally
damaged or lost after you turn it in, you will receive 0 points
for the assignment if you do not have a backup copy
FINAL PROJECT: You will identify a vacant parcel from one of the a property plat maps that I have. Your task is to put a commercial building on that parcel. You will use information that you learned from PL401 to design your building footprint and all other requirements (parking, landscapeing, ingress/egress). That is why the Land Development Code is a required text) toselect a site plan from a collection that I have. The building must also be compatible with surrounding structures (the REAL THING) and actual zoning.
CO-CONVENING PL431 / PL531: This class is co-convened with PL431 and
graduate students are expected to meet the same prerequisites for the co-convened
class. Graduate students will learn the same material, but but will supplement
this with additional readings from professional journals. An additional paper
will be due at the end of the class based on these readings. In addition, the
grade point distribution for graduate student emphasizes the Final Project and
Final Written Exam to a greater degree than for undergraduate students.
ATTENDANCE: ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED for all class sessions. Please provide your Instructor with an Institutional Excuse form if you are going to miss class. Unless your are told otherwise, the class will meet in the GIS Computer Lab in the Forestry Building (ground floor).
You are required to work during the lab time -- you are not excused to leave after the lecture/demonstration portion of the course. Students who leave early without a proper excuse will be marked down on their Weekly Assignments - no matter how well the assignments was done.
GRADING for PL 431 Students (400 pts in the Second Half of the class):
Exercises/Project Work:
- Weekly Assignments = 285 points (71%)
- Final Project = 50 points (12.5%)
- Portions of the Final Project will be done as part of the Weekly Assignments. The points here are for the final product, although it also reflects work done in Assignment 6
Exams:
- Final Exam = 30 points (7.5%)
- Midterm Performance Test = 10 points (2.5%)
- Final Exam Performance Test = 15 points (4%)
Attendance: 10 Points (2.5%) - minus 1 point for each day absent, up to 10 days
GRADING for PL 531 Students (425 pts in the Second Half of the class):
Exercises/Project Work:
- Weekly Assignments = 285 points (67%)
- Final Project = 50 points (11.8%)
- Graduate Credit Assignment = 25 points (5.9%)
Exams:
- Final Exam = 30 points (7%)
- Midterm Performance Test = 10 points (2.4%)
- Final Exam Performance Test = 15 points (3.5%)
Attendance: 10 Points (2.4%) - minus 1 point for each day absent, up to 10 days
TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE:
GRADE DISTRIBUTION
A = 90% to 100%
B = 80% to 89%
C = 70% to 79%
D = 60% to 69%
F = < 60%
YOUR GRADE FOR PL 431/531 WILL BE BASED ON THE TOTAL POINTS THAT YOU RECEIVE FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND HALF OF THE CLASS.
LATE ASSIGNMENTS and PLAGIARISM - Assignments are due at the beginning of the class (4 p.m.) for which they are assigned. Late assignments will receive a SIGNIFICANT grade reduction. Unless specifically told so, you are required to do your own work. If you try to pass off someone elses work as your own, BOTH of you will receive a grade of "0" points. Depending on the serious of the violation, you may both receive a reducation in your final grade or be expelled from the class. The Geography Department and the University may take additional punitive measures.
Your Points will be reduced 50% for each Week they are late.
OTHER POINT DEDUCTIONS - In order to facilitate the grading of the drawing files your disks, you are asked to give the files very specific names. Points will be deducted if you do not use the correct name for a file. Additional points will be deducted if the misnamed file is difficult to find due to (1) a large number of files on your disk, (2) a really off-the-wall filename, or (3) files are placed in s directory on your disk, even if the file has the correct name. ALSO, points will be deducted if you do not have you name on your disk.
AUTOCAD Compatibility - We will be using the latest version of AutoCAD, which is 2002. Drawings created on AutoCAD 2002 can be opened in AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD LT 2002 and AutoCAD LT 2000. The Save As function allows drawings to be converted to AutoCAD release 14 format, which can also be read by AutoCAD LT 98. These other versions of AutoCAD can sometimes be purchased from the NAU Bookstore and elsewhere at considerably discounts (AutoCAD 2002 sells fro about $2500; LT2002 is $345 for students; older versions can be found on eBay and elsewhere online). You can look for a student version of AutoCAD LT 98 (fully release 14 compatible) -- which has received rave reviews. The major difference with LT is that it only does 2-D instead of 3-D drawings, which is fine since we will not be doing 3-D in this class. General AutoCAD 2002 product information is available from the Autodesk website.
We Will NOT be covering 3-D, Rendering, AutoLISP, Solid Modeling, Customizing Menus and the Tablet, External Linkages and Attributes, Viewports, and Paper Space in this class. All of theses topics are in your text if you wish to pursue them on your own. As a follow-up to this courses, you may wish to consider taking Construction Management's CM 330 which is an AutoCAD 3-D course.
COURSE FEE - The course fee that you paid when registering for this course is primarily used to support software and hardware upgrades on the AutoCAD stations in the Forestry Building and the Learning Resources Center labs.
AUDIT Students: NAU policy requires that students taking a course for Audit must attend the class on a regular basis or they will receive a grade of F. In addition, I expect Audit students to (1) buy the required books, and (2) do all of the in-class work as the other students, including taking exams. All of these materials must be turned in and overall, of the work turned in must receive an average grade of D or better, otherwise you will be given an F for the class.
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