Pre-Requisites: Senior or Graduate standing and CSCE 310. Graduate students in this course will be expected to play a more independent role in these projects.

Class communication: Because the class will not meet as a whole for much of the semester, email will be used to notify students of any changes and/or additional lectures scheduled during the semester. You should read your "cse" email on a regular basis as and check the class news web page to make sure you do not miss any important news or changes.

This document is available at http://www.cse.unl.edu/~myra/classes/cse496_05/syllabus.html

*These items are due during Dead Week. See UNL dead week policies.

The grading for the class will be as follows:

• Team Based Marks (60%):
  For each of these assessment elements, all members on the team will receive the same mark. If team members are not participating this should be brought to the instructor's attention as early as possible. Individual penalties may occur for non-participation.
  • Team Interim Report 15 % . (Mar 7th)
    This is a report detailing your initial design for the project. More details will be posted with exact specifications closer to its due date.
  • Team Weekly meeting reports/quality 10%
    For each team meeting with the instructor, the team will produce a short summary before the meeting detailing, the progress the team has made that week, its goals for the next week and any specific questions that have arisen. During the meeting the students will discuss their progress and any difficulties encountered.
  • Team Final Report 20%. (Apr 27th)
    This is your final report an design documents. More detail describing the scope of this report will be posted before the 8th week of classes.
  • Team Final Implementation 15% . (Week of Apr 25th)
    This is the actual project implementation. Students will be expected to have a working software product that follows the design outlined in their final report. Details on the marking/expectations of these projects will be posted later in the semester.
• Individual Marks (40%):
  • Pre-requisite test - 5 % Due Tuesday Jan 18th.
  • Interim Presentation 5% (Feb 28th,Mar 2nd)
    As part of the interim report each team will give a class presentation. The presentation will be coordinated and planned as a group, but each member of the team will be expected to give develop the slides and give part of this presentation on their own. The quality of this presentation will be marked on an individual basis.
  • Final Presentation 10% (Week of Apr 25th)
    Each team will give a final presentation. Once again, each member will be individually marked.
  • Peer Reviews 5%
    Students will be expected to write a (no greater than) one page report discussing the effectiveness of the team and assigning a grade to each one in their group (including themselves) twice during the semester. The peer marks will be used to allocate a peer mark for each team member. If there are team difficulties, students should discuss this with the instructor early in the semester.
  • Meeting Attendance/Participation 5%
    Each student on a team will be expected to participate in weekly meetings with the instructor. Students will be marked on attendance and participation for these meetings.
  • Design Notebook 10% (Mar 7th & Apr 20th)
    Students will maintain individual notebooks. These are informal notebooks that must contain at least one entry per week. They detail the teams efforts, issues, to-do items, time spent on project, etc. These are meant as a record of your progress and a record the team progress. Notebooks may be handwritten and bound, or typed and bound.
• There is no Final Exam
Marks will be allocated as follows:
• A- (90-100)
• B- (80-89)
• C- (70-79)
• D- (60-69)
• F- Less than 60
"+" marks grades are given between 7-9 (For A grades the "+" threshold is 98"), "-" marks are given between 0-2. For instance, an 83 = B, a 92 = A-, a 76=C. Some scaling upwards may occur depending on the performance of the class as a whole. No downward scaling will occur.