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

• Office Room: Science 112
• 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://www3.ltu.edu/~chung (syllabus, announcements, lecture notes, etc.)
• Office Hours: check out http://www3.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 concetration that are Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Systems), Distributed Computing, Database Systems, and Software Engineering.
• Intensive study of special/practical/real-world problems in 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 Model, Deliverables, and Assigned Points

See below table in which the concept of spiral model is being adopted. All the deliverables may be posted on the instructors homepage.

Grading: Total 200 points

• Grades will be based on the results of the above activities (190 points) as well as 10 points by the instructor considering the following factors: creativity, teamwork, scientific finding, educational value, userfriendlyness, usability, robustness, new technologies used, etc.
• No I (incomplete) grade will be given.
• Must submit contribution percentage for each individual 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.  

Copyright by Chung (c) 2001