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School of Computing
Queen's University CISC-499* 4th Year Undergraduate Project Winter 2008 |
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School of Computing
Queen's University CISC-499* 4th Year Undergraduate Project Winter 2008 |
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After you have a signed contract, your first job is to create a project
proposal. This is an expanded definition of the project, describing what
you are planning/expected/required to do. Your proposal must include a schedule
for completion of the work, with bench-mark dates (for example "February 1:
coding of the XYZ module will be complete"). Your proposal must be signed by
your supervisor and submitted to the course coordinator (me) by November 10, 2006.
Most supervisors expect to meet students at least once a week. It is the student's responsibility to make contact. Faculty members will not go looking for students who do not visit them.
A written report on the work you carry out is due to
your supervisor one week
before the last day of classes for the Winter Term.
The report should be 4000 to 5000 words in length and should contain a
background section for the problem you were to solve, a description of
the approach used, the results obtained, any open problems left for
future work, a list of references, and any other material deemed
necessary by the project supervisor. Your supervisor will give
you more details of their expectations for the report.
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| Proposal | 5% |
| Presentation | 20% |
| Work | 50% |
| Report | 25% |
| Q. Are team projects possible? |
A. Yes. |
| Q. Am I allowed to suggest my own topic? |
A. Yes. You need to find a
faculty member who is willing to supervise your project. |
| Q. How big does a project need to be? |
A. Your project should involve approximately 120 hours of work (per student) in the Winter term. |
| Q. What if I haven't been admitted to
Honours yet? |
A. If you are going to apply for admission
to Honours at the end of the fall term, you should select a project during
the fall, as described above. You should inform your
supervisor and any potential team-mates that you may not be able to
take the course. |
| Q. Is there any way that I can take this
course without being admitted to Honours? |
A. No. |
| Q. How is the presentation schedule
planned? |
A.
I produce the schedule based on the ideal that each supervisor has all
his/her student presentations on the same day. This is not always
achievable. The schedule is published very early in the winter
term. |
| Q. Is the final report really due one week
before classes end? |
A. Yes, it really is. However, if your supervisor
gives you an extension until the end of classes, I don't need to know
about it. |
| Q. Who marks my work? |
A. Your supervisor marks your proposal,
your work and your final report. Your class-mates and I mark your poster
presentation. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from outside the
School of Computing? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty
member in the School of Computing to co-supervise your project, and to
ensure that it has enough computing science in it to make it a reasonable
project for this course. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from outside Queen's? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty member in the School of Computing to co-supervise your project, and to ensure that it has enough computing science in it to make it a reasonable project for this course. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from outside Canada? |
A. Yes. You need to find a faculty member in the School of Computing to co-supervise your project, and to ensure that it has enough computing science in it to make it a reasonable project for this course. |
| Q. Can I work on a project from Pluto? |
A. Don't push me. It's not even a planet. |
Acknowledgments
The Queen's Coat of Arms is a registered trademark of Queen's University.
The Queen's Computing crest is used with permission of COMPSA, the
Queen's Computing Students' Association.
Robin Dawes
CISC-499* Coordinator
Goodwin 537
dawes AT cs DOT queensu DOT ca