Term Project
Your term project can comprise of
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.
Documents needed:
Proposal (2 pages): Part
1 Project Idea and Plan: It should include the Project title, your
name and email addresses, one paragraph abstract, motivation, proposed approach
and applicable references (must be cited in standard IEEE format). Part
2 Sources of Information: identify the most applicable sources of
information for your project, and mention a list of most applicable journals
(minimum 3), conferences (minimum 3), names of the top organizations/research-groups
(minimum 3) in that field, and one recent news or industrial report (at least
one) all of them along with all related urls.
Progress report (3-5 pages) and Powerpoint
presentation: 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 to ten minute oral presentation using slides will be required soon afterwards.
Final report (8-10 pages, submit using Canvas/TurnItIn
): It should follow the format
for IEEE conference papers. It should include (i) the title, name of the author(s), name of the class and
professor, (ii) an abstract, (iii) description of what is your contribution
and what is new in your report, (iv) introduction (modification, background
and related work, objectives and methods), (v) description of assumptions /
schemes / models / problem-formulation (vi) comparison/discussion/derivation etc of the results, (vii) conclusions (findings and
suggestions for improvements) and (viii) 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 useful guide for writing papers can be found at: How to Write Your First Scientific Paper
Topics: The topics must be closely related to the
course objectives. Here is a list of suggested topics.
Evaluation: Among the
factors that will be used for evaluation are: significance and originality,
thoroughness of research, depth of understanding displayed and presentation.