Instructions for Mini-project Sponsors
Purpose
The purpose of these mini-projects is to provide the incoming new PhD students
with some initial research experience. For this reason the faculty and
the senior PhD from all research areas are requested to submit mini-projects.
Students are required to choose 3 projects from the list of projects.
Students are required to choose projects from different areas.
Duration
The time allocated for each mini-project is
3 weeks and each project should require approximately 30 to 40 hours of
work. The sponsors are requested to be very careful of this in designing
their mini-projects. These projects should be the initial work that you
would require a student to undertake before they work on an 8903 or a GRA.
Please avoid completely open-ended problems and define the scope of your
project. The project description should be such as to encourage the students
to come and meet with you to discuss the scope and define exactly what
they can accomplish in the limited time-frame. Senior PhD students can
also sponsor projects, ideally with their advisors. Example of possible
projects are available from
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs7100_98_fall/projects/
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The schdule for the projects is as follows:
| Date |
Milestone
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| 9/13/99 |
Identify Project 1 |
| 10/1/99 |
Project #1 Due |
| 10/11/99 |
Identify Project 2 |
| 10/29/99 |
Project 2 Due |
| 11/15/99 |
Identify Project 3 |
| 12/3/99 |
Project 3 Due |
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Evaluation
Please specify what you are looking for in terms of evaluation. You will
need to provide me with feedback on the completed project so that
I can assign final grades. Each project is worth 25% of the overall grade.
Submitting Projects:
This year we are using the WWW for the class, so we request that all the
projects be submitted in the HTML format. Use http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs4390_98_fall/7001_projects/essa01.html
as a template and you can place it on your own WWW page. Please let
Don Allison <don@cc.gatech.edu>
know how to access your mini-project web pages or send him the file so
he can place it appropriately.
Last year's projects
Several of you have already suggested that you'd like to use last years
mini-projects. That maybe fine, however, I would like to request that you
look over them and update them as neccessary and let Don know. The older
projects are available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs7100_98_fall/projects/.
Please get these projects to Don Allison <don@cc.gatech.edu>
as soon as possible.