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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.html
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.
Look
here
to find many sources of information on which to base
projects.
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 possible. You must have a finalized
project idea by the end of the fourth week of instruction. See the
course schedule
for the deadline. You must obtain my approval for your idea before 5:00 p.m.
on this 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.
We will do the oral presentations at the end of the semester. See the
course schedule
for the exact dates. 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.html
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
See the
class schedule
for the due date near the end of the term, by which 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
homepagePattern.html
and
links.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 related to your topic.