Spacecraft design and system engineering

Dear student,

You will find attached the evaluation rubric (called "2024_MDR_evaluation_rubric.pdf") that will be used to grade your Mission Design Review presentation.

Below are some explanations to understand the rubric:

• Per topic, the expected content in your presentation is defined.
• Per expected content, a quality level is defined in text form. This quality level is associated with a grade (out of 6), which will be ticked off by the us, the teaching team, when the level is deemed achieved by you.
• If the teaching team choses for a given content the grade of e.g. 4/6 and 5/6 (i.e. you have provided sufficient level of quality to achieve a grade of 4/6, but have also some aspects needed for a grade of 5/6), then the grade will be placed in the middle. In this case, a grade of 4.5/6 would be given for this content item.
• The final grade is rounded to the nearest quarter, as described in the Rubric.

Important (about the 6/6 grade): The rubric has been designed such that a grade of 6/6 would only be achievable by the most ambitious students. We have purposefully added elements in the quality level of a grade of 6/6, which go beyond what is expected for the MDR. Therefore, do not worry if you do not have all the elements described for the grade 6/6 and focus on the other grades. But, you are encouraged to work towards a grade of 6/6 if you want to excel ;-)

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