Team Athena -- information for new student hires.

Who's Who

Ken Higgins (khiggins@mit.edu, w92-156) is often helpful, especially when Jane isn't around.

Bill Cattey (wdc@mit.edu, w92-155, x3-0140) is the team leader for Deliver Athena. If you are working on UNIX developmnent kinds of projects, Bill gets listed as your "faculty supervisor" on your UROP cover sheet (see below.)

Paul Hill (pbh@mit.edu, w92-172, x3-0124) is the team leader for Network Services. If you are working on PC or Mac projects, Paul gets listed as your "faculty supervisor" on your UROP cover sheet (see below.)

Jonathon Weiss (jweiss@mit.edu, w92-157, x3-0253) is the team leader for Athena Servers Operations. If you are working on system administration projects Jonathon gets listed as your "faculty supervisor" on your UROP cover sheet (see below.)

Your Supervisor will be your primary contact. He or she will help you choose your project and with issues of doing it.

Getting Started

• student personnel action form
  
• cover sheet
  
• key card
  
• combination for floor lock

Student Personnel Action form

UROP proposal & cover sheet

Be sure to enter your previous UROPs and sign the form.

Give the completed form to Jane.

All students need to write a project proposal. Send this via email to wm-admin@mit.edu and CC your supervisor. Volunteer UROPs be sure to note in
your proposal that you are doing a volunteer UROP.

(At the end of the semester all students will need to write a summary of their project which reviews what you proposed, what you did, and what you learned along the way.)

Team Athena mailing list

You will be assigned a work area and machine. It is likely that you will have to share this area with other watchmakers. Please read "Watchmaker workstation policy".

Paper Mail

Ongoing

Payroll: status & hours reporting

• Read "weekly report/time card policy" for details.
  
• Send weekly report via email to supervisor, CC: wm-admin
  
• Send report each week by 10am Monday morning
  
• include: done, planned for next week, todo queue, hours worked, issues
  
• send a report every week -- even weeks you did not work any hours.

• decide, with your supervisor, on approximate number of hours per week
  
• don't work over 40 hours total for all MIT jobs without prior permission from mbarker, wdc, pbh, or jweiss
  
• post/maintain scheduled hours (~1/2 of all hours) on info board outside E40-342G
  
• submit your hours within one week of working them.

Additional important information

Rules

1. your school work comes first, your job second, the rest of your life third
   
2. send a status report every week
   
3. always keep you supervisor fully informed
   
4. use your best judgment

responsibilities

• as a member of Team Athena you may have access to confidential or restricted files, e.g. usage logs or source code, be good.
  
• we try to treat students as full members of team Athena. You should participate fully in all aspects of the group: meetings, design discussions, etc.

team work

• actively seek opportunities to discuss issues etc. with others.
  
• do not spend more than a day struggling with a problem before asking for help.

Zone phone

• student personnel action form
  
• status report every week
  

• key card
  
• mailing list
  
• mailbox
  
• project & supervisor
  
• workstation

Last updated: $Date: 2001/08/28 18:04:43 $ by $Author: jweiss $.