CSCE 488:  Computer Engineering Professional Development

Fall 2007, Tu 8:00-9:15
Room 111, Avery Hall


Useful Info   Design Contests     Resources      Course Schedule    Teams   Homework Summary Group Meetings Schedule   Project Reports and Presentations 

Announcements/News: 

11/5: NYT report on the DARPA Urban Challenge last Saturday
11/1: DARPA Urban Challenge website.
10/21: "DARPA Sees Inspiration as Trophy of Robot Race" CNet (10/18/07): Note that we will be seeing a video about the previous DARPA challenge a week from this Tuesday.
10/19: Here is a link to a sample of past 488 project reports and presentations.
9/04: Following up on today's theme in the class, here are the final presentation slides from the last semester's 489 projects:
Instructor: Sharad Seth; Office: 359 Avery Hall; Office Hours: MWF 9:30-10:30 am (You may try to catch me at other times if this does not work for you)
    seth at cse.unl.edu
    472-5003

TA: Yuyan Xue; Office: Resource Center, Avery Hall; Office Hours: 1:00-3:00 pm Wed and Fri
        yxue at cse.unl.edu;

Required Textbook :  Inviting Disasters: Lessons from the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles, Collins; Reprint edition (September 1, 2002), ISBN: 0066620821.  (Link to the book on Amazon.com and at the publisher's website)
Useful Info: Many reference materials on oral and written communication exist. You may already have come across some good sources in AgLec 200. Here are a few that I can recommend:
Companies:
 Acknowledgment: Special thanks to Profs. Lisong Xu, Hong Jiang, Witawas Srisa-an, and Stephen Scott at UNL for their lecture notes and help.

Design Contests:

Late Policy:  Homework will be due in class, before the beginning of the class. Late homework will be accepted until the following Friday, with 10% penalty per day.

Important Resources:

Tentative Course Schedule: I may schedule one or two guest lectures during the course.
Date
 Topics Assignment Date
 Due Date
8/28
 Course Syllabus HW 1 (written)and HW 2 (oral)
  
9/4
 Getting Started with Projects, Team-formation, selection of chapter and schedule for HW 2.  
9/10 (By midnight)
HW 1
9/11
 Prof. Witty discusses this semester's 489 projects    
9/18
 HW 2  Presentations (Team 1: Ch. 12 and Team 2: Triumvirate: Ch. 2) HW 3 (oral) HW 2 
9/25
 HW 2  Presentations (Team 3: Ch. 11 and Team 4: Ch. 5) HW 4 (written - project proposal) HW 2 
10/2
 HW 3 Presentations: Teams 2 and 3 HW 5 (Reading/Discussion)
Read Chapter 3 before coming to class on 10/16		 HW 3 
10/9
 HW 3 Presentations: Teams 1 and 4   HW 3 
10/16
 HW 5: Professional Ethics Discussion (Followup)
 HW 6 (oral) 
 HW 4 (due midnight 10/22)
10/23
 Fall Semester Break    
10/30
 DARPA Challenge video
    
11/6 No class - individual group meetings, project work    
11/13 No class - individual group meetings, project work    
11/20
 No class - individual group meetings, project work    
11/27
 No class - individual group meetings, project work    
11/21
 No class - individual group meetings, project work    
11/27
 No class - individual group meetings, project work    
12/4
 HW 6 Presentations: Teams 1 and 4    HW 6 (5 PM)
12/11
 HW6 Presentations: Teams 2 and 3   HW 6 (5 PM)
12/11     HW 4 updates (midnight)

Summary of Homework:
1. (Individual) Written report on techncial research 10%
2. (Team) Reading comprehension, oral presentation, and leading technical discussion (based on the textbook) 15%
3. (Team) Oral critique of old project reports 10%
4. (Team) Written preproposal for the project 25%
5. (Team) Oral presentation of the project preproposal and miniproject implementation 30%
6. (Individual) Classroom participation in discussion on professional ethics, etc. (Your attendance is a part of this) 10%