Project Team Assignments

In setting up the project teams, there are two key questions that must be answered:

• Who will be on each team?
• What project will the team implement?

Teammate Assignments

The course instructors will ultimately choose who is on each team. In making their selections, the instructors are concerned with two key constraints:

• Keeping team sizes to 4 students, with 3 students being the second choice when 4 is not possible.
• Balancing technical ability across teams based on performance on the skills assignments.

Additionally, students may request that certain other students are on their team. The instructors will do their best to honor such requests, as long as the above constraints are adequately met.

How to Request Teammates

A group of students may request to work together. The size of the group may be 2–4 students. All students in the group must agree to it and indicate their support for the request.

To submit a request, perform the following steps:

1. One member of the group sends a request email as follows:
   • Email subject: “Project Teammate Request”
   • To: Scott.Fleming@memphis.edu, jmskheil@memphis.edu
   • CC: All other members of the proposed group—all students must use their UofM email addresses
   • Email body: “I am requesting the following students be on the same project team:”, then list all the students in the group, including the email sender.
2. Each and every other member of the group must reply-all to the email with a message that says, “I confirm this request.”

Important! Only requests that follow the above instructions and for which all members of the group have replied will be considered.

Project Assignments

Once the teams have been formed and the projects have been selected, the course instructors will assign each project to one of the teams. A key criteria in this assignment will be that the customer for the project assigned to a team is not also a member of the team.