CSCE 488, fall 2001 HOMEWORK 4

Due Dates: Team Oral Presentations: Wednesday, October 24 and Oct 31
Evaluations of your group: Saturday, October 27 and November 3, 8:30 a.m.

Purpose: This assignment continues the theme of the last assignment: reviewing technical material and presenting the results of the review. The new twists are teamwork and oral presentations.

Assignment:

You will be given two written final reports from the previous offering of CSCE 489, as well as the Request for Proposals (RFP) that prompted the project.

For this assignment, you will work in teams of three students. Your objective is to prepare a critique of each of the reports you have been given. I suggest that you start with individually reading the RFP, then meet as a group to discuss the division of responsibilities and the timeline for completion of the assignment. Your critique of each report should evaluate the total quality of the product, including, but not limited to, the following items:

1. An introduction or overview of the requirements of the RFP

2. The extent to which the reported project fulfills the requirements of the RFP

3. The clarity and readability of the written report as it pertains to explaining the project (i.e. how difficult was it to understand the design)

4. The completeness of the report relative to the items asked for in the RFP

5. A comparison of the two reports, addressing both the quality of the designs and the quality and credibility of the reports.

You will present your results in an oral presentation. The presentation for each team should be a single, unified entity, not independent pieces. It must follow the guidelines presented in lecture. Also, when you give your presentation, you must bring with you a handout of your slides for the instructor. Each team will be allowed 24 minutes to talk and 6 minutes for questions. Then within three days after your presentation, you will submit an evaluation of your and your teammates' presentation.

Two teams will receive copies of the RFP and the reports on October 10. These groups will present on October 24 and submit their evaluations by 8:30a.m. on October 27. The other three groups will receive their materials on October 17, present on October 31, and submit evaluations by 8:30a.m. on November 3. Thus each group will get exactly two weeks to prepare, and there is no advantage to presenting on October 31 over October 24.