Courses/CS 491ab/Spring 2009

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[edit] General guidelines

[edit] CS 491ab general information

[edit] Grades

This quarter the department wants you graded on (at least) the following three attributes: software, documentation, presentation. Consequently I'll determine the grade in this class from those three elements along with your regular weekly progress grades. Each of the following portions will count 1/4 of the course grade.

  • Weekly progress.
  • Final product from a software perspective.
  • Final product from a documentation perspective.
  • Presentation qualities. These will be split more or less evenly between
    • Weekly presentations (as an aggregate; each one makes a small contribution). Powerpoint presentations are not required each week. But I will be looking for you be organized in your weekly presentations. (So each week's presentation aspect will count approximately 1/8 of 1/8 of the final grade.)
    • Final presentation.

I'll send you a weekly grade in the form X/Y. The X part represents the weekly progress evaluation. The Y part is the presentation evaluation.

[edit] Videos

This class is being videotaped. I hope you are interested in seeing how you look when you present each week.

  1. Apr 3, 2009. No class.
  2. Apr 10, 2009
  3. Apr 17, 2009
  4. Apr 24, 2009. No class.
  5. May 1, 2009
  6. May 8, 2009
  7. May 15, 2009
  8. May 22, 2009
  9. May 29, 2009
  10. [ Jun 5, 2009]
  11. [ Jun 12, 2009]

[edit] Student Pages

Please enter your names alphabetically by last name. Since the links below were generated to be sub-pages of the the Winter 2009 page, they are not sub-pages to this page. I've changed Irvin's link to illustrate the change needed to link to last quarter's page. You may do that and continue to use that page for this quarter, or you may click the red link and make a new page. 

from: [[/Irvin P Bustos/]] 
to:   [[../Winter 2009/Irvin P Bustos|Irvin P Bustos]]

Everyone else should make a parallel change both in the list below and in the time sign-up list.

[edit] Presentation schedules

Let's divide the class into 6 groups of 4 people each. Starting with week 3, each person is expected to spend 15 minutes discussing the work you did during the past week. Each person in a group is expected to stay the entire time.

Please copy pointers to your pages into the periods below. For now, as many people as desired can sign up for each time period. After I see everyone's preferences, we'll make final adjustments. For example, if six people sign up for one time period, we may expand that period to 1 1/2 hours.

Those of you working in groups, e.g., the biology project, the Aerospace project, should all sign up for the same time slot. You may want to set up a project page in addition to your individual pages.

[edit] 10:00 - 11:00

[edit] 11:00 - 12:00

[edit] 12:00- 1:30

  • Break

[edit] 1:30 - 2:30

[edit] 2:30 - 3:30

[edit] 3:30 - 4:30

[edit] 4:30 - 5:30

[edit] Mandatory survey

Here is a survey the College wants you to take. Please take it as soon as possible.

[edit] Week 9. (5/29) Senior Design Day

The College holds an annual Senior Design Day during which industry representatives meet with departments and explore student projects. This year it is scheduled for May 29 (Friday). The schedule is posted here.

Students participating in CS 491b projects are invited for lunch and are expected to create posters for the after-lunch poster session. It is also expected that students will stand by their posters after lunch and discuss them with our visitors.

[edit] Poster guidelines

[edit] Poster Content and Format

  • Tell a story: motivate your audience to read further. Present information that will permit the audience to easily understand both what you have done and why you have done it.
  • Minimize usage of text and maximize usage of images
  • Font size: 28 point font for text, 36 point font for headings.
  • Maximize font size for poster title and the rest of the heading. Make the text as large as will fit horizontally.

[edit] Poster content

Include the following sections in your poster:

  • Project background/context
  • Objectives
  • Deliverables (what you built, how you solved the problem, etc.)
  • Results (performance, testing, etc.)
  • Conclusions

[edit] Poster format

Everyone is required to use this template: "Senior Design Day Poster Template" (ppt) (upload page).

[edit] Poster uploads and date

Let's have all the posters listed here.

To upload a poster use this Wiki Template 

* {{Upload 
| Name = <project name>
| Type = ppt
}}

Deadlines

  • Initial version: 5/15.
  • Revised version: 5/22.
  • Final version: 5/24 (Sunday).

[edit] Uploaded posters (alphabetically by last name)


  • Krikor Geysimonyan, Edwin Panameno, Manuel Segura, Cynthia York. "JavaSTARS" (ppt) (upload page)
  • Oscar Mendez, Redden Ronald. "CSULA Energy Consumption" (ppt) (upload page)
  • Jonathan Schiff. "Video Indexing Using Motion Estimation" (ppt) (upload page)
  • Natalia Shatokhina. "ChIP-Seq data analysis Tool" (ppt) (upload page)

[edit] Presentations

Please sign up for a presentation for either the 10th week or finals week.

In preparing your presentation prepare for 20 minutes of uninterrupted presentation—expecting that there will be at least 5 - 10 minutes of discussion during your presentation.

Here's a suggested outline.

  1. Title slide. Project name and your name.
  2. Background and overall objectives. A single slide that provides an overview of the project from a functional perspective. This is intended primarily as an introduction to the demonstration, which follows. It provides the information your audience needs to understand the demonstration.
  3. Demonstration. This should take the bulk of the time.
  4. Important implementation issues. Discuss issues that are unusual or especially sophisticated about your design or implementation.
  5. Final words. You may not have conclusions other than the work itself. That's ok. In that case there will be no final slide. But if you have some conclusions, lessons-learned, credits, planned future work, etc. this is the place to discuss it.
These presentations will be video taped and will serve as a permanent record of your work. They will be available on the Department web site. You may want to refer potential employers to your presentation when you are looking for a job. Prepare a presentation that you will be proud to show. Concentrate on results.

[edit] Week 10. (6/5)

  • 11:00 - 11:30. Jimmy Hoo
  • 11:30 - 11:00. Henry Wei
  • 12:30 - 1:00. Lalantha Sathkumara
  • 1:00 - 1:30. Break.
  • 1:30 - 2:00. Aerospace Team
  • 2:00 - 2:30. Aerospace Team
  • 2:30 - 2:00. Grady Laksmono
  • 3:00 - 3:30. George Navarro

[edit] Week 11 (Finals week). (6/12)

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