Bilkent University - Computer Engineering Department
CS390: Individual Research Study
Description: Getting acquainted with research. Exploring and investigating a topic. Exercising critical thinking. Performing research activities in the area of computer engineering and science. Doing individual research study, under the guidance of a faculty member. Preparing an academic report or article, and presenting study results.
Credit units: 3, ECTS Credit units: 5.
Prerequisite(s): CS102, MATH132.
Conditions
- CGPA ≥ 3.00.
- Can be taken as a general elective course.
- Can be taken at most once.
- No group projects or literature survey is accepted.
- All prerequisite courses listed above must be satisfied.
Administration
- Coordinated by a faculty member or chair (Coordinator)
- A student can register for this course when the faculty and the student agree on the project topic.
- A faculty member can offer this course to at most two students per semester.
- The student prepares one interim report during the semester. The student submits a final report and gives a presentation to all students and faculty involved in the course at that semester, during the final exams period.
- The letter grade of the student is determined by the faculty member and the coordinator.
A student needs to agree first with a faculty member on taking the course. Then he/she will fill and sign the following registration form and submit it to the department. All signatures must be completed in the order on the form. The student then needs to create a course override form (from SRS). The department will add the course with this override form to the student. These must be completed before the registration period ends (by add/drop deadline).
Other
- Grading Policy:
- Progress (Interim) Report: 20%
- Final Report/Paper: 60%
- Presentation: 20%
- Progress report should be submitted by around week 8 of the semester.
- Final Report should be submitted by the end of the semester.
- Presentation will be done during final exam period.
Faculty Members and Project Offerings (if offered)
Below you can check the faculty members and their project offerings at the beginning of the semester. Then you can talk with the faculty member directly.
[Selim Aksoy]
[Can Alkan]
[Shervin Arashloo]
[Cevdet Aykanat]
[Fazli Can]
[Ercument Cicek]
[Hamdi Dibeklioglu]
[Ugur Dogrusoz]
[Aysegul Dundar]
[Ugur Gudukbay]
[Altay Guvenir]
[Anil Koyuncu]
[Ibrahim Korpeoglu]
[Ozgur Oguz]
[Ozcan Ozturk]
[Eray Tuzun]
[Ozgur Ulusoy]
CS390 Details for the Current Semester
- Interim Report Deadline: Monday in the 8th week of the semester
- Final Report Deadline: Monday in the last week of the semester
- Presentation Schedule: TBD, at the end of the semester