Workshop #1: Introduction to

Graduation Project

Wednesday September 2nd 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 (1st Semester)Deliverable Purpose Student

informationDue

  Start of Semester 1ProjectProposal

To document the problem statement, need for the project, project scope and expected benefits

 Submit to supervisory Committee (portal website: student side) 

2nd week

Mid-term Report

To assess the students’ progress in their proposed project.

Submit to supervisory Committee (portal website: student side)

8th

ProjectReport

To submit project deliverables in the form of a single report. This is the final report for CSC496

Submit to supervisory Committee (portal website: student side)  

14th

Poster Session

Four examiners are invited to evaluate each project in a poster session

Present to Supervisor, Examiners

First week of Examination

  Grading of Semester 1 and End of Semester 1

GP Deliverables (2nd semester)

  Start of Semester 2

 Final Report

To bind all project deliverables (including the recommended documents of Semester 2 shown in Table II) in a single report.

 Submit to supervisory Committee (portal website: student side)

FinalPresentation

& Demo

 An examiner is invited to evaluate students’Projects

 Present to Supervisor, Examiners

  Grading of Semester 2 and End of GP

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)/ PowerPoint 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 

Criteria  

DescriptionEvaluation

Authority(s) 

Semester 1 and Semester 2Process

To assess that student(s) have kept continuous contact during the work and have been on time both to meetings and in sending deliverables.

 Supervisor

Semester 1 Proposal 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

Semester 1 Midterm report 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 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, SupervisoryCommittee, Semester 1 Supervisors

Semester 2 ProjectDemonstration

 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, SupervisoryCommittee, Two Examiners

Semester 2 OralPresentation

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, SupervisoryCommittee, Two Examiners

 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 (1st 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 (1st Semester)

 Criteria

 Supervisor

 Supervisory Committee

 Examiner(s)

 Total

Process 15 - - 15

Proposal - 05 - 05

Midterm report - - 10 10

Poster Presentation 10 - 30 40

Report 15   15 30

Total 40 05 55 100

Presentation (2nd 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 (2nd Semester)

 Criteria

 Supervisor

 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

Q/A