(Latest revision 12/28/2000)
Team Project Assignment for Communication Networks: CS 3000
You will form two-person teams for the class projects.
There is a list of topic suggestions in the document called
projectIdeas.
I will make additions to the list as ideas occur to me.
YOUR SOURCES
You may use high-quality publications and high-quality sites on
the web as sources of information for your project.
When searching for articles, be sure to look at issues of the
following magazines in our library: Communications of the ACM
and IEEE Computer. Also, browse through the periodicals section
of the stacks for other ACM and IEEE publications.
YOUR TOPIC
You must choose a topic with a strong relation to networking and
you must present an in-depth report on your topic.
If you wish, you may choose to do a project with a considerable
hands-on component. For example, some students using our
textbook at a different college built a client-server application
that allows a client to play a game such as tic-tac-toe over a
network.
On the other hand, you may choose to do a project without a
significant hands-on component.
YOUR GRADE
Three things will determine your project grade: Your team's oral
presentation of the project activities and results (30%), a
handout distributed at the beginning of the presentation (30%),
and a web site version of the presentation (40%). Both people on
your team will receive the same grade.
DUE DATES
Finalize your project idea as early as is practicable. You must
have a finalized project idea not later than the sixth day of
instruction (Tuesday, January 16). You must obtain my approval
for your idea by the end of that day. Between now and then, keep
me posted on what you are considering to do for your project so
that I can give you necessary feedback.
You will make your oral presentations during the period reserved
for the course final exam: Thursday, February 1, from 9:00 to
12:00. The entire class is required to attend all the
presentations.
THE CONTENT OF YOUR PRESENTATION
Your presentation must be between 15 and 25 minutes in length.
In your presentation, tell what your topic is and what is
important about your topic. Report what you did, what your
sources of information were, what you hoped to learn, what you
actually did learn, and what you feel remains for you to learn.
Report on any other interesting outcomes. Be imaginative and
original. Include some helpful audio/visual aids. Your
presentation will be judged by the depth of your research, the
quality of your content, and the effectiveness with which you
communicate. Be prepared to take a few questions from the course
instructor and the rest of the audience after you complete your
presentation.
THE CONTENT OF YOUR HANDOUT
The body of your handout must be more than one page and less than
three pages in length. It must contain more than 500 words and
fewer than 2000. It must summarize what you want your audience
to know about the topic and help them with their note-taking.
Attach a list of references to the handout. This list must
contain complete citations of all sources of information you used
to assemble your project. See the document
howToCite
for important additional information.
THE TIMING OF YOUR HANDOUT
You must distribute the handout at the beginning of the
presentation. If not, you get a zero for that component of the
presentation.
TIMING AND CONTENT OF YOUR WEB PAGE
Before the last class session of the Winter Term begins, you must
make available a web page containing the core material of your
presentation. We will arrange to publish the pages on the CS
department web server. See the files
HTML-help
and
homepagePattern.html
for some help getting started on making web pages. Also, please
bring this topic up in class where we can take care of the rest
of the details. For full credit on your web page, be sure to
appropriately exploit links to relevant web sites relating to
your topic.