CSCI 630 Software Engineering
Spring 2007
Group Member Preferences


You must complete this by 5pm on Thursday January 25.  I will reply to your e-mail when I get it.

If you do not get a confirmation reply from me by 5pm on Thursday January 25, use ecst webmail to send your e-mail to me.  E-mail from ISPs does not always get delivered on time!  You can get an ecst account by going to Elbert Chan in OCNL 249 3:30-5:00 M-F.

If you forget to submit your preferences, there is a very good chance you will be in a poorly selected group.


What you have to do:

Send an email to tyson@ecst.csuchico.edu with the exact subject "630 group preferences" and a body that follows the following format exactly, where you are student m and there are n-1 students.  Note: misrepresenting your undergraduate grades/marks is grounds for failing the course.

last name, first name
primary e-mail address  
undergraduate subject marks for Indian students -or- undergraduate major GPA for US students
undergraduate aggregate marks Indian students -or- undergraduate cumulative GPA for US students
your Keirsey temperament
1, <desire to work with student 0>
2, <desire to work with student 1>
...
m, 100
...
n, <desire to work with student n>

Where the desire should be an integer 0-5 defined as follows:

0: really don't want to work with this student 
1: rather not work with this student
2: don't care
3: would like to work with this student
4: really want to work with this student
5: really really want to work with this student, just put me in his/her group

CAUTION: If you have lots of 0's then you probably won't get to work with the people you want to work with.  The problem arises when the people you want to work with match well with someone you give a 0 rating.  Their "positive" desire to work together will keep them together while your desire to avoid that person (with a 0) will keep you out of the group.

Give yourself the score of 100 (even if you don't want to be on your own team).

For example, assuming we have 5 students, and I am student 3,  my e-mail will have the form:

Henry, Tyson
tyson@ecst.csuchico.edu
51
48
rational
1,2
2,3
3,100
4,5



Your answers are strictly confidential.  I will NEVER share them with anyone.


What I do with your answers:

I have a brute force program that searches the preferences of all the students to find groupings that satisfy the largest number of preferences.

I will then use your marks, your Keirsey temperament, and the groupings generated by my group selection program to assign groups.