Term
Project
Your term project should include
You must demonstrate
that you know how to research, are current in the chosen topic, have developed
significant expertise in it and can communicate effectively about your work. You
must have significant original contributions.
Deadlines:
Discussions: as specified in the class. We will use powerpoint slides.
Proposal (1-2 pages): It should include the Project title, your
name and email addresses, one paragraph abstract, motivation, proposed approach
and applicable references (must be in standard IEEE format). Also
include a list of top journals (minimum 3), top conferences (minimum 3), and
names of the top organizations/research-groups (minimum 3) in that field, along
with all related urls.
Progress report (3-5 pages): It should indicate that you have finished at least half of the work.
It should include a summary of the findings, any refinements of the objectives
as a result of the past study, what the final report will contain and the
applicable references. A five-minute oral presentation may be required.
Final report (8-10 pages, electronic and hardcopy): It should follow the format for IEEE conference papers. It should include
the title, name of the author(s), name of the class and professor, (i) an abstract, (ii) introduction (modification, background and related work, objectives and
methods), (iii) description of assumptions/schemes/models/problem-formulation,
(iv) comparison/discussion/derivation etc of the results, (v) conclusions
(findings and suggestions for
improvements) and (vi) references. Use appendixes for details like raw data,
listings etc., if needed. Report must include appropriate figures and must have
some hard data (tables/plots/screen-shots etc). A 20-minute oral presentation
may be required. A useful guide for writing papers can be found at: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/writingguide.pdf
Topics: The topics must be closely related to the
course objectives.
Evaluation: Among the
factors that will be used for evaluation are: significance and originality,
thoroughness of research, depth of understanding displayed and presentation.