CSCE487/489: Computer Science/Engineering Professional Development

(Senior Design Project)

Class Time: 8:300A.M. – 9:20A.M., M.W.F. (only during the first week)
Class Location: 256C Avery Hall
Instructor: Drs. Steve Reichenbach/Hong Jiang; Office Location: 260 Avery Hall/217 Schorr Center, 472-5007/472-6747; reich@unl.edu/jiang@cse.unl.edu

Teaching Assistant: Ben Christensen (christb@cse.unl.edu); Office Hour: 9:30am-11:30am Monday

Syllabus Course Schedule Late Policy Important Resources Useful Info Project Teams Grade Status

Useful Info:

• Presentation Evaluation Form (doc)
• Peer Team Evaluation Form (courtesy Michele D. Harris, Maryland Technology Academy)

o Foundation Coalition (FC) The Foundation Coalition (FC), one of eight engineering coalitions funded by the National Science Foundation, was established as an agent of systemic renewal for the engineering educational community.  A particularly useful resource page from this website is Introduction to Student Teams in Engineering which includes several "Mini-documents" including one on Peer Assessment and Peer Evaluation.

o Part Request Form

o Ridge Soft: Tools for educational robotics.

o Quartus tutorial

o Report Do's and Don'ts by Craig E. Wills, downloaded from http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/courses/report.html on January 15, 2007.

o Dos and Don'ts of Technical Writing, Dennis R. Morgan, IEEE Potentials, Aug-Sept 2005, pp. 22-25.

o Resources for technical writing, Dr. Steve Goddard

• Improve your written and oral presentation styles, Dr. Stephen Scott
• How to write a research paper, Dr. Jean-Yves Le Boudec
• Common bugs in writing, Dr. Henning Schulzrinne
• Style in business writing, Dave Dusseau
• A Handbook for Scholars, Mary-Claire van Leunen
• Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers, Jane E. Aaron
• Purdue Writing Lab
• Computers and Society, COS 490, CS Department, University of Maine
• A simple (incomplete) check-list for writing papers, S. Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota
• Professional Societies' Student Membership: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, HKN

Acknowledgment: Special thanks to Profs. Sharad Seth, Lisong Xu, Witawas Srisa-an, and Stephen Scott at UNL for their lecture notes and help.

Important Resources:

• CSE Senior Design Lab Inventory
• Class Email address: cse489-ml@cse.unl.edu
• Handin Procedure: go to http://cse.unl.edu/~handin, from the drop list on the left, select cse489

Tentative Course Schedule: We will meet initially as a class and then again from time to time for progress reports (see the syllabus for more details). At other times, Professor Reichenbach and I will meet with each team separately in a conference room to be determined, during the class time. Occasionally, we may have guest speakers or other reasons to meet together during the class time; these events will be announced in advance.

Date	Topics	Assignment
8/23	Course Syllabus (256C Avery)	Peer Evaluation-1 (handin by Wednesday, September 8, 5 PM)
10/4	First Progress Reports (8:00-9:30)	30-45 minutes each team
11/8	Second Progress Reports (8:00-9:30)	30-45 minutes each team
12/14	Final Project Presentations and Demonstrations	Time and room: 7:30AM-9:30AM, 347 Avery Hall 45-60 minutes each team

Project Teams:

Team Name	Names of Team Members	Weekly Meeting Time & Place
SPIN	Blake Anderson, Austen Bryan, Tyler Hawkins, Joshua Wong	8:30AM Monday, 256C Avery Hall
SURe	Corey Jergensen, David Jessen, Hima Korandla, Kyle Maguire	1:30PM Wednesday, 256C Avery Hall