Guidelines for the Group Assignment

Guidelines for the Group Assignment

Guidelines for the Group Assignment

60-265 ASSIGNMENT

Software Perspective:

For each of the Assignment topics, the students are to do research and perform a study from a user’s point of view and with the perspective of a software professional.

For example: For ICs, obtain information about the ICs available in the market and the report should be oriented towards how to use the ICs.

The research, the preparation of the report and the presentation is to be done preferably in a Group of up to 5 students.

Each project must culminate in

  • The submission of a final report
  • Power-point slides for presentation
  • A soft copy, in word, along with
  • A hard copy.

The hard copy may be 20-25 pages.

Font : Times New Roman ; Style : regular ; size : 12 ; Line Spacing : 1.5

A Presentation of 15 minutes:

It is mandatory that each Group member must make a part of the presentation.

GUIDELINES for writing the Report

  • Font : Times New Roman ; Style : regular ; size : 12 ; Spacing : 1.5

Structure of the report:

  • Should include a cover page giving
  • The course #,
  • The title ,
  • The names of group members , and their individual contributions.
  • The report may be a minimum of 20 pages, excluding the following:
  • The title page
  • The reference page(s)
  • The Contents page.
  • References: should follow the IEEE /ACM guidelines.

Samples of References from IEEE Guidelines for authors:

[1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.

[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68-73.

[3] I.S. Jacobs and C.P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G.T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271-350.

[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.

[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name Stand. Abbrev., in press.

[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740-741, August 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].

[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA: University Science, 1989.

[8] S. Boag, D. Chamberlin, M.F. Ferna´ndez, D. Florescu, J. Robie, and J. Sime´on, “XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language,” 2005 as of 24th October 2006

  • The reader is assumed to be a student of your class, belonging to a different group. So please explain the topic clearly so that the reader is able to understand your topic.
  • Figures can be used wherever needed , but should not be used for filling up pages.
  • Must be divided in to various chapters and sections.
  • The report should be submitted by the group on the due date as a HARD copy as well as SOFT copy in a CD or a floppy in WORD format.
  • The power point slides are to be submitted as a soft copy. But this submission may be on the day of the presentation.

Guidelines for presentation

  • All the presentations are to use Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • The group presentation may consist of about 20 slides
  • Each of the group members is to present his contribution to the assignment
  • Time allocated for each presentation to a group is 15min.
  • The presentation should be based on the Report, that the group has submitted.
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