August 25, 2008:
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Teams (group of 4-5 students) are required to email their team members to the
instructor by September 3rd.
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Teams are required to email their three choices of the class projects from the
list of available projects by September 5th.
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I advise students who are in need of joining a class project team to send email
to "eel5881@eecs.ucf.edu". Interested teams should reply back to the individual
directly. Please note that the class email account will be populated at the end
of the first week (add/drop period).
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Each team is required to have a class project page where the team deliverables
and presentations are to be posted on the day of the hard copy submission.
Teams are required to send the link for their class project links to the
instructor no later than October 1st.
September 14, 2008:
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The research paper topic assignments are posted on the research paper page.
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Homework 1 is posted and it is due on September 24th.
October 8, 2008:
- The homework I has been graded and distributed in class today. Please drop
by the instructors office during the office hours to collect your homework.
October 10, 2008:
- If you have not picked up your homework I, please drop by the instructor's
office during the rescheduled office hours on Monday
- Project deliverables I has been graded.
- Additional office hours: Since we do not have any more office
hours before the exam next Wednesday (10/15), Wednesday's office hours will be
rescheduled on Monday (10/13) from 1:30pm till 4:30pm. This gives the students
an opportunity to collect the homeworks, project deliverables, and possible
questions on the lecture topics.
- The exam 1 will be held on 10/15 during the scheduled class period. The
chapters covered include: 1-2, 4-8, 25-26 as well as UML diagrams
(use-cases, class and sequence diagrams). The exam is open-book, open-notes, but
no computers or calculators are allowed. The exam will consist of problem
solving questions.
October 17, 2008:
- The due date of homework 2 has been postponed to Nov. 12th. The homework 2
assignment will be posted within the next week.
October 24, 2008:
- The homework 2 has been posted.
Friday, November 7, 2008:
- The classroom has been changed to Engineering Building I, room 388.
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The second UML homework is due on November 12th.
- Please refer to the research paper page for the schedule of each research
paper presentation.
Here is the summary of what is expected from the research paper
presentations:
- The paper(s) you are presenting should be published in 2006 or later date.
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The cover slide including the paper title, authors, publication date,
where it is published and your name.
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The outline of the presentation which should include your section and/or subsection
headers.
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The number slides are upto each presenter.
- Each presenter will have 25 minutes (20 minutes presentation and 5 minutes
Question & Answer 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.
Here is the summary of what is expected from the research paper
reports:
- The report should have three sections: (i) summary of the paper on your own
words; (ii) the advantages and disadvantages of the methodology, presentation of
the material, etc.; (iii) how to overcome the disadvantages that you have
outlined in the previous section.
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There is no specific template or page limit on the report.
- The last day to turn in the research report (hard copy) is on the last day
of the class (December 5th; however, it is recommended to turn them on the day
of presentation.