Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: Permission of [Department Chairperson or Graduate Program Director] and the instructor
Lecture Room: Generally N/A
Lab.: M219; Robotics Lab (CW21)
Instructor: CJ Chung, Ph.D.

• Office Room: Science 116D or M219
• Phone: (248) 204-3504
• Fax: (248) 204-3518 (this fax number is for the whole building and senders should be sure to place instructor's name on the fax)
• Dept. Secretary: (248) 204-3560
• Math/CS Drop Box: in front of S120 door.
• Email: CHUNG @ltu.edu
• LTU webpage at http://qbx6.ltu.edu/chung (syllabus, announcements, lecture notes, etc.)
• Office Hours: check out http://http://qbx6.ltu.edu/chung and click on Office Hours

Required Text: N/A, project by project

Recommended Text: Any Software Engineering Textbook

Course Objectives

• Further theoretical and practical study/research on each student's areas of concentration, which are Intelligent Systems (Artificial Intelligence), Distributed Computing, Database Systems, and Software Engineering.
• Intensive study of special/practical/real-world problems in the software system (or embedded system) development.
• Students will be involved in a whole software life cycle, which includes requirement specification, design, implementation, and testing of complex software systems.
• Teamwork experience, if necessary.

Development Life-cycle, Deliverables, and Assigned Points

See below table in which the concept of spiral model is being adopted. All the deliverables need to be posted on the instructor's homepage.

Grading: Total 200 points

• Grades will be based on the results of the above activities and submitted products
  1. Criteria to decide the points for the documentations: completeness, consistency (between documents), readability, and clarity, etc.
  2. Criteria to decide the points for the implemented system: functional completeness, functional consistency, consistency between documents and the system, complexity, size, correctness, reliability, robustness, reusability, user-friendliness, usability, and quality
  3. The rest 10 points are decided by the instructor considering the following factors: creativity, teamwork, scientific finding, educational value, and new technologies used, etc.
  4. The instructor uses this form when grading the project
• The instructor will ask contribution percentage for each team member, if the project is done by a group.

Intellectual Property and Copyrights

All the deliverables may be reused/modified/upgraded by another students and/or instructor later on for educational purposes only. The instructor will make sure to give appropriate credits and acknowledgements to the previous students.