System Design - EE321X Civilizations and Cultures Reflective Essay TEAM BJ Topic: Functional Analysis/Allocation Blackburn-Jones, Hodapp, Florendo, Romeo, Wanamaker, LaMagna Date: 10 FEB 2015 Help Received: COL Barr

C&C Level 0 System Functionality Diagram EE-321X Civs and Cultures Reflective Essay INPUTS:  Course Syllabus  Systems Engr. Process  Team of Students  Half a semester  Wordpress™  Canvas  VMI IT  Research sources on Canvas  Writing Center  C&C Rubric  Peer Evaluations OUTPUTS:  Published Essay  Supporting Artifacts  C&C X credit

C&C Reflective Essay Model Flowchart Perform Requirements Analysis Begin your Adventure Identify abstract, verifiable, unambiguous, and traceable requirements Perform research survey to assess potential alternatives Evaluate operational, environmental, health & safety, political, legal, social, cultural, and global factors Use Evaluation criteria to weigh alternatives Perform Functional analysis Allocate performance metrics to essay components Identify derived requirements for the reflective essay Select strongest sources for the essay Compose first draft Does the draft have major flaws? Address major concerns and re- write Yes Submit draft for Peer Review Edit draft based on peer reviews No Submit draft to the Writing Center Compose final draft and submit on Wordpress with artifacts Was the essay a success? No X credit for you Celebrate at Macados Yes No

Level 1 Subsystem Functionality INPUTS:  Course Syllabus  Systems Engr. Process  Team of Students  Half a semester  Wordpress™  Canvas  VMI IT  Research sources on Canvas  Writing Center  C&C Rubric  Peer Evaluations OUTPUTS:  Published Essay  Supporting Artifacts  C&C X credit Essay Composition / Submission Requirements Analysis Research Survey Compose first draft Select strongest sources for essay Weigh Alternatives Allocate performance metrics to alternatives Submission on Wordpress with artifacts Writing Center Review Peer Review

Functional Allocation/Analysis Compose / Review Essay  Identify three cultural factors (products, practices) influencing systems design  Identify activities and assignments in the course have facilitated your learning about cultural factors influencing design  Select most distinctive feature of the culture(s) influencing systems design. May be more that one, or may a distinctive factor that changes over time. Remember that what makes a culture distinctive may be something that it has in common with another culture, or it may be something that makes it different than others.  Identify which factors stand out as significant in your mind, and why  Using the distinctive factor(s), identify the course activities and assignments (that you’ve collected as artifacts) which have informed and shaped your understanding of the culture(s) in this particular way. Consider these experiences in relation to one another.  Integrate artifacts supporting an analysis showing how you came to understand the distinctive CFs influencing systems design.  Express in a paragraph what you want to say in the essay, and why it’s worth saying.  Get feedback on your paragraph  Compose initial draft of your essay.  Review drafts – provide feedback as team exercise/writing center  Post essay/artifacts  Publish essay/artifacts by mid-semester

Level 2 Functionality: Compose first draft Compose First Draft 3 Distinctive cultural factors influencing design Advances a complex, insightful thesis/ focus for the essay that identifies distinctive components/ practices of the target culture(s Supported by artifacts Select Essay Topic 1000 – 1250 Words Proper grammar / punctuation / citation Individually Written Meaningfully reflects on the relationship between what the writer learned about the target culture(s) and how the writer came to learn it through the ePortfolio process. MLA Format for references