The purpose of this document is to define an quantitative metric for measuring students' performance in senior design project.

1. In each milestone, a student will be assigned with tasks. Each task will have points associated with it. An average task will have 2 points, i.e., one task for duration of two weeks. A single task may have less point or more points based on the required work for the task. The points will be given to a task at the time of assignment;
2. The points associated with a task is fixed, that is, it will not increase if a student cannot complete a task within the required time framework. If a delay task with an extension will still have the same points as the original assigned task;
3. A task is considered complete, if the progress of the task is "85%" or more;
4. The student's individual performance is computed as: $\frac{\Sigma_{t\in T}(pt(t)\cdot pg(t))}{PT_{max}}$, where $T$ is the set of tasks assigned to the student, $pt(t)$ is the points assigned to a task $t$, $pg(t)$ is the progress of $t$, and $PT_{max}$ is the maximal points accumulated by any student in the same project group. $\Sigma_{t\in T}(pt(t)\cdot pg(t))$ is the weighted total points for the student.

Example:

Consider a 4-week project with 3 students.

* The percentage indicates the progress of a task

The points assigned to tasks:

Performance metric: