CSCE 486/488: Professional Development

Homework 4, Spring 2010

(Project Proposal + Mini-project)

Your team will prepare a written proposal about the project that the team intends to work on for CSCE487/489-CS/CE Senior Design in Fall 2010. The proposal should contain:

• [1-page why]  An introduction to the general field of and motivations for the proposed project focus.
• [1-page what] A description of the projected functionalities, main components, and physical appearance of the final product.
• [2-pages how]  A description of the proposed approaches (designs, algorithms, hardware needed, etc) to realizing the projected functionalities.
• [1-page experience]  Justification of why the proposed project, along with the approaches to accomplish it, is feasible for your team
• [1-page mini-project] Identify one key component or a scaled-down version of the proposed project that can be experimented on as an initial feasibility study and the term project for this CSCE486/488 class.
• Oral reports on all proposals for the CSCE 487/489 project and demos on all mini-projects will be scheduled in the early part of the Dead Week (last week of April) as Homework 5 (refer to the class web page for the schedule).

In writing your report follow the best practices you have learned in previous courses for technical writing. The class web page under the heading, "Useful Info" has several links that may be helpful to you.

You must prepare a ppt presentation of your proposal, one for each team, to be given to the Class during the lecture hour on Monday, March 1, 2010. 

Your proposal and ppt presentation, one for each team, should be submitted through the handin and via email to the instructors and TA by midnight on Monday, March 1, 2010.