CISE Senior Project - Goals

In the Senior Project, you will synthesize much of what you have learned in your other CISE courses by creating and finishing a semester-long project. This is an opportunity for you to put into practice the skills and techniques that you have learned during your undergraduate studies.

This course will give you experience designing and building a significant software system or module. You will have the responsibility of meeting deadlines and, sometimes, dealing with incomplete problem specifications. This kind of experience is one familiar to CIS majors who have worked in industry and government after having received their baccalaureate degrees. Thus, the class will bear directly upon practical experience and job skills.

Your deliverables for the course include:

• A significant software product, with possible hardware components
• A written technical report on your work
• An oral presentation
• Intermediate e-mail documentation to insure that you are ``on track.''

You must read your e-mail frequently to stay in touch with your advisor and supervisor when appropriate. The supervisor will periodically send out messages to all seniors taking CIS 4914, concerning meeting announcements, presentation dates, etc. You are completely responsible for knowing these dates, and appearing at meetings and presentations on time, fully prepared, and with the appropriate materials.