CS 492
Senior Design Project II

Description: A technical project emphasizing engineering design principles on a specific topic in any field of computer science or engineering to be carried out by the team of senior students under the supervision of a faculty member. Students continue the project they started in CS 491 course, with the same team. Two formal reports summarizing the low level design and the implementation of the project and an oral presentation, including a demo, are required. Credit units: 3, Prerequisite: CS 491.

General

Low-Level Design Report: {Due: 5pm, Monday, 3^rd week of Spring semester}
The high-level design produced at the end of CS 491 course is refined into the detailed low-level design document. The report must be available on the web page of the project.

The following apply to software-oriented projects for the most part; for hardware projects, the tasks are somewhat different, and the contents of the report must be decided in consultation with the project advisor.

During analysis, we describe the purpose of the system. This results in the identification of application objects that represent user concepts. In system design, we describe the system in terms of its architecture, such as its subsystem decomposition, its global control flow, and its persistency management. During system design, we also define the hardware/software platform on which we build the system. This results in the selection of off-the-shelf components that provide a higher level of abstraction than the hardware. Through object design, we close the gap between the application objects and the off-the-shelf components by identifying additional solution objects and refining existing objects.

A sample way to organize low-level or object design document would be as follows:

1. Introduction
1.1 Object design trade-offs
1.2 Interface documentation guidelines
1.3 Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
1.4 References
2. Packages
3. Class Interfaces
4. Glossary 

Final Report: {Due: 5pm, Thursday, 13^th week of Spring semester}
The final report is the culmination of the project. The final architecture and design of your system as well as the final status of the project is presented in this report. The report is to be accompanied by the software/hardware system itself along with a User's Manual including installation instructions.

Presentation and Demo: {Last week of Spring semester}
Students are to present their work at the end of Spring semester. They are required to turn up on time and are properly prepared. Computer projectors will be available if they want to use them. Each team will have 25 minutes for their presentations. It is strongly suggested that team members practice their talk at least a couple of times beforehand, to ensure they can get the major points across in the given time. The team is required to dedicate 5-10 minutes of their time for a demonstration of their project. Students may bring their own hardware or use the PC available in room of presentation.

Return of materials {Due: 5pm last day of Spring Semester}
Students are required to return all materials which they may have borrowed from their supervisor, including books, research papers, notes, software, etc. by 5pm on the last day of the semester. Additionally the supervisor may require copies of any software that was developed as part of the project to be handed in at the same time. Failure to do this may mean that graduation is delayed!

Grading
Total grade has three components:

• 60%: the grade given by the supervisor on the performance of the students through the semester,
• 30%: the average of the grades given by the jury members on all the reports,
• 10%: the average of the grades given by the other team members. Each team member is asked to evaluate the contribution of every other member of their team. It is the reposnsibility of the project supervisor to get the grades of each team member for every other team member.

The letter grades will be assigned according to the following table:

Range	Grade
90-100	A
85-89	A-
80-84	B+
75-79	B
70-74	B-
65-69	C+
60-64	C
55-59	C-
50-54	D+
45-49	D
0-44	F

Project Evaluation Form: Excel file, PDF file.