Monday, January 10, 2005:

Project teams are required to email their team members to the instructor/TA by January 24th.
Four to six students are required to participate in each project teams.

Wednesday, January 12, 2005:

Research paper teams are required to email their team members to the instructor/TA by January 24th.
Two students are required to participate in each research paper team.

Monday, January 17, 2005:

Sunday, January 23, 2005:

The current research paper page is updated.
Please send your research team members and top three choices of the research paper topics.
Reminder: The deadline to send both project and research paper team members along with top three research paper topic choices are due on January 24th.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005:

The research paper teams are posted.
The possible projects are posted. Please send me an email stating top three choices of the projects.

Sunday, January 30, 2005:

The UML presentation is rescheduled to Wednesday due to a lab session conflict.
Please send your project preferences to the instructor as soon as possible if you have not done so.

Monday, January 31, 2005:

All the teams have chosen their projects.
You are encouraged to contact your respective clients as soon as possible to discuss the requirements.
Please send your project page link to the instructor as soon as possible if you have not done so.
The research paper presentation topics schedule is posted in the class schedule page.

Wednesday, February 2, 2005:

The UML homework has been updated and posted as well as UML slides presented by Majid Khan.
Please send your project page link to the instructor as soon as possible if you have not done so.

Wednesday, February 9, 2005:

Project templates are now available. We will keep the original deadline (Feb 14th) for Deliverables I.

Here is the summary of what is expected from the project team presentations:

The cover slide including the project title, members and the client.
The outline of the presentation which should include main files that you will be discussing (Concepts of Operations, Project Management Plan, and so on).
You can start with the explanation of slides for each of the items on the outline.
Every team member is required to present part of the deliverable.
The number slides are upto each team. Basically, go over each of the item in the deliverables and make few power point slides for each.
Teams 1-4 will presenting on Monday and the rest of the teams on Wednesday.
Each team will have 20 minutes (15 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A session).
A hard copy of the presentation slides should be handed in to the instructor at the beginning of the class.
The soft copy of the deliverables must be posted in the project pages of each team by the begining of the class next Monday.
Each team must also post their project presentation slides at the time of their presentations.

Sunday, February 20, 2005:

Please note that assignment 2 is posted in the class page and due on March 7th.
There will be a review class for exam 1 on Monday, February 21, 2005, and exam 1 will be given on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005.

Sunday, March 6, 2005:

Please note that assignment 3 is posted in the class page and due on March 30th.
The research paper reports are due on April 20th in class. No late reports will be accepted.
The research paper presentations will start tomorrow and everyone is expected to attend the presentations.

Here is the summary of what is expected from the research paper presentations:

The cover slide including the paper title, authors, publication date, where it is published and your name.
The outline of the presentation which should include your section and/or subsection headers.
The number slides are upto each presenter.
Each presenter will have 25 minutes (20 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A session).
The presenters need to provide the hard copy of the presentation slides (preferably handout format) and the paper(s) being presented to the instructor at the beginning of the class.

Monday, March 28, 2005:

Please note that assignment 3 has been corrected and posted in the class page. Due to these late modifications, the due date has been rescheduled on April 4th. Please note that this homework weighs 5% of overall grade and NO LATE homeworks will be accepted after the due date.