MCS 4983 Syllabus

MCS 4983 (Summer E) Directed Study (Undergraduate Research)

Chan-Jin Chung

Lawrence Technological University

Math and Computer Science Department

Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite : Permission of Department Chairperson and the instructor
Lecture Room: Generally N/A
Lab.: M215; Robotics Lab (CW21) for Robotics Project; CW51(.NET)
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

Undergraduate research projects for qualified students. (Must get approval from the instructor before registering this class)
Intensive study of special/practical/real-world problems in software systems (or embedded systems) 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.

Course Rules

This is an independent study. There are no formal lectures. The instructor is not supposed to teach every material required to accomplish the project.

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, if necessary.

Week	Deliverables	Points
1st	Project proposal & description due
2nd	Project requirements specification and initial test case documents	10
3rd	System design document due	5
4th	First demo of the prototype	30
4th	Final requirement spec, test cases, and design document due	5
8th	Second demo	40
10th	Public presentation if necessary and field trial; Delivery of the project executables, source, and documentations	110

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.
The instructor will ask contribution percentage for each team member, if the project is done by a group.

This score will be translated into a letter grade based upon the percentages given below.

A	90-100%	C+	75-78%
A-	89%	C	70-74%
B+	85-88%	C-	69%
B	80-84%	D	61-68%
B-	79%	F	0-60%

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.