EE204S is being offered as a separate class through SCPD.
If you are a currently enrolled HCP/NDO student and you have not been contacted by a TA, please email the teaching staff.
There are Midterm and Final papers on a case sudy in lieu of midterm and final examinations. This course is offered on a letter grade basis only. Your grade will be weighted as follows:
Class Participation (answers to pop up questions and Piazza comments) (50%)
First written case (25%)
Second written case (25%)
If at any point during the quarter you would like to see us about your class participation, written work, course matters, or anything else, please contact us after class, by phone, or by email to set up an appointment and we will work to accommodate your needs.
The class schedule and link to purchase the course reader can be found here.
Each case in the schedule has study questions. Answers to the study questions are not required but will help you better understand the cases. You are encouraged to use them to structure your thinking about the material and in-class discussions as you watch the videos
For Thursday lectures, the question answers are due at 8PM on Friday in the same week. Comments on the answers for the Thursday lectures are due at 8PM PST on the Monday of the following week.
For example, for 3/29 lecture, question answers are due 3/30 8PM PST, comments are due 4/2 8PM PST. For 3/31 lecture, answers are due 4/1 8PM PST, comments are due 4/4 8PM PST.
Criteria that we use to grade the answers to the pop up questions and Piazza comments:
Students will receive feedback on their individual classroom participation at the midpoint in the class schedule. Comments made are monitored and averaged. The students' average contribution is grouped into one of three categories below. Students will receive feedback in the form of a number corresponding to one of these groups. The way to interpret your score is:" On average my comment is a 1, 2, or 3."
1) Average comment satisfies 1 and part of 2 of the above criteria that we use to measure effective class participation.
2) Good comment satisfies 1-3.
3) Excellent comment satisfies 1-5.
After every class the professors meet and use the above criteria to assign each comment a 1, 2, or 3 (with an approximate distribution of 10%, 75%, and 15%). Each student receives credit for only his or her best comment from that class.
Because we want the quality of comments to be more important than the quantity of comment, at the end of the quarter each student's lowest 9 participation grades (out of the roughly 18 class sessions) are dropped. The remaining grades are summed for each student and then normalized ((student's grade - class mean)/standard deviation). All grades (participation, and both written cases) are normalized to ensure that they can be properly weighted to determine overall grades.
Class participation represents a major component (50%) of your grade in this course. You will receive a quartile ranking of your class participation just before the half way point in the quarter.
If for whatever reason, you are not able to access the video or pop-up question list, send the TAs an email (see contacts on homepage). The TAs will send you a link for the questions.
A variety of extra-credit opportunities are available for EE204S, including the following:
Teams are an integral part of EE204S, for discussing readings & cases, participating in the simulation, and completing the two major written assignments for the course.
EE204S students will be assigned to teams of 2-4. While local students are invited to EE204 class receptions, teams must be formed with other EE204S (online) students.
Bay-area EE204S students are invited to attend both EE204 class receptions. See the assignment calendar for details.
All students, whether enrolled for the live or SCPD course offering, are expected to abide by the Stanford Honor Code.
Michelle Lucas, SCPD Graduate Program Manager
Email: malucas |at| stanford |dot| edu
Phone: (650) 444-5328
SCPD Student Services Team (enrollment/registration)
Email: scpd-customerservice |at| stanford |dot| edu
Phone: (650) 725-3016