Workshop 1 Introduction to Graduation Project Wednesday September

Workshop #1: Introduction to Graduation Project Wednesday September 2 nd at 10 am Capstone Committee Department of Computer Science

Program Objectives To teach senior students how to tackle large-scale real-world projects Introduce senior students to scientific research To help create a bridge between course-work and industry To help create a bridge course work and postgraduate studies

Overview of the Graduation Project (GP) CSC 496: Complete the project proposal, project management plan, project requirement specification, Present their work through a poster session CSC 497: Submit the final project and project report. Demonstrate and present the project CSC 496 and CSC 497 are marked separately

Project Tracks Depending on the purpose of the project, a graduation project may be categorized as either: Research-based or a software-product Research-based projects are more related to asking scientific questions and investigating their answers Product-based projects are focused on a high-quality, functioning product that serves specific purpose, and does not necessarily answer any scientific question

GP Deliverables (1 st Semester) Deliverable Project Proposal Mid-term Report Project Report Poster Session Purpose Start of Semester 1 To document the problem statement, need for the project, project scope and expected benefits To assess the students’ progress in their proposed project. To submit project deliverables in the form of a single report. This is the final report for CSC 496 Four examiners are invited to evaluate each project in a poster session Student information Submit to supervisory Committee (portal website: student side) Present to Supervisor, Examiners Grading of Semester 1 and End of Semester 1 Due 2 nd week 8 th 14 th First week of Examination

GP Deliverables (2 nd semester) Start of Semester 2 To bind all project deliverables (including the recommended documents of Semester 2 shown in Table II) in a single report. Final Report Final Presentation & Demo Submit to supervisory Committee (portal website: student side) An examiner is invited to evaluate students’ Projects Grading of Semester 2 and End of GP Present to Supervisor, Examiners

End of GP submission Two copies of the bound report to be submitted to the department One regular copy to be given to the examiner by the due date (mailbox) Upload the project online using the Web portal: Report ( and Poster(496)/ Power. Point presentation(497)) Code (complete source code of the project) (497) Demo (497) (the executable in working order and a readme file containing the information about the software requirements (tools) and hardware requirements for the GP as well as the instructions or the steps (soft copy of the user manual) for running the GP executable).

Evaluation Criteria Description To assess that student(s) have kept continuous contact during the work and have been on time both to meetings and in sending deliverables. Semester 1 and Semester 2 Process Semester 1 Proposal Supervisor To assess that the chosen project is worthy of being acceptable as a GP and if acceptable, register the project in the GP database through web portal. Supervisory Committee To asses that student(s) know the problem and propose an appropriate solution. The student(s) should also have conducted the necessary literature review at this stage. Examiner Semester 1 Midterm report Evaluation Authority(s) Semester 1 Project Poster Presentation To assess that student(s) have completed tasks and delivered documents expected in the first half of the course i. e. Semester 1. It includes both demonstration and presentation of the work (in the form of a poster). Supervisor, Supervisory Committee, Semester 1 Supervisors To assess the end product developed in terms of interfaces, coding standards, and originality of the work. It requires student(s) to install project and run it for real time presentation. Supervisor, Supervisory Committee, Two Examiners To assess problem understanding, adequate analysis, quality of the design and presentation skills. Each group is required to discuss the completeness and accomplishment of the project. Supervisor, Supervisory Committee, Two Examiners Semester 2 Project Demonstration Semester 2 Oral Presentation Semester 1 and Semester 2 Project Report To assess the structure of the project report. Student(s) are required to show planning and progress in an organized way with emphasis on the interpretation of the information gathered during the project. Project reports have to be submitted in both Semester 1 and Semester 2. Supervisor, Examiner (Two Examiners for Semester 2 report)

Poster Session (1 st Semester) Two hours poster session on the first day of examination Students prepare a poster presenting their work Students should be prepared to answer questions about their project Each project will be examined by four examiners Posters should be printed by the students prior to examination day

Mark Allocation Policy (1 st Semester) Criteria Supervisory Committee Examiner(s) Total Process 15 - - 15 Proposal - 05 Midterm report - - 10 10 Poster Presentation 10 - 30 40 Report 15 15 30 Total 40 05 55 100

Presentation (2 nd Semester) Students prepare a 20 min. presentation Presentation include all aspects of the project Presentation include a 5 min live demonstration of the product in case of software project For research projects, the presentation must include experimental results.

Mark Allocation Policy (2 nd Semester) Criteria Supervisory Committee Examiner 1 Examiner 2 Total Process 20 - - 20 Demo 05 - 05 05 15 Presentation 05 05 10 10 30 Report 15 - 10 10 35 Total 45 5 25 25 100

Software/Product Template Introduction Problem Description Literature Review Software Project Management Plan (SPMP) Software Requirement Specification (SRS) Software Design Description (SDD) Software Test Documentation (STD) Conclusion

Research Template Introduction Problem Description Proposed Approach Literature Review (Background) Results Preliminary Results (Semester 1) Experimental Results (Semester 2) Analysis and Discussion Conclusion

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