Announcements
12/11/07
Final Report Guidelines
1) Your report
should be written as if you are submitting it to a conference. Your work will
be judged based on the following criteria:
2) Your report
should contain the following sections (Just for your reference. For example,
you can use more sections if you like):
3) Αt the very end of the report
4) Οverall, target 6 pages, double column, single
line space with font 9 or 10.
5) Finally, the
report is due by Midnight of Dec. 15th. Please email your report (PDF format)
to Prof. Chen. (Please proofread your report.)
11/01/07
Project Presentation
Everyone is required
to join the final presentation of the project. To avoid a long and tiring
process, we will try to control the presentation time for each team.
1) Each team is
given 20 minutes (17-18 minutes for actual presentation, 2-3 minutes for
questions and answers). Alex will raise a signal if 20 minutes are used up. The
team then will have 1 minute left to wrap up.
2) Target 15
slides, including motivation, related work, novel
contribution of the project, actual project description, experimental results,
conclusions and future work.
3) Please
concentrate on your own work instead of focusing a lot on related works.
4) All the team
members should participate in the presentation.
Here is the
schedule. Please let Prof. Chen know if some time slot wont' work for you.
Time: Tuesday,
Dec. 11, 2007, 1pm-3:20pm
Place: 419 CSL
(will email if there is a change of place).
Shoaib 1pm-1:20pm
Greg/Scott 1:20-1:40
Nitin/Kshitiz
1:40-2:00
Jae 2:00-2:20
Girish/Idan
2:20-2:40
Faycal/John
2:40-3:00
Hui/Tan 3:00-3:20
11/01/07
Interactive Learning
To make the
class more interactive and engaging, we will start interactive learning on Nov.
13th. This procedure can also help students to not only learn about other research
but also clearly convey the ideas to people. Students are also encouraged to
discover the pros and cons of the work.
We partition the
class into six groups. Each group will be given a paper about two weeks before
its scheduled presentation date. Each group will have 25 minutes to present the
work. Both group members should participate to make the slides and present the
work. During the presentation, other students are encouraged to ask questions
and make comments just like what happens during normal lectures. As we
discussed, there won’t be homework #3, and this takes the grading percentage of
homework #3. Prof. Chen will grade the presentation based on clarity of the
presentation, understanding of the work, quality of the slides, and the ability
of answering questions from the audience.
Groups and the
schedule are shown below (the assignment is determined randomly).
Group Topic Date
________________________________________________
Nitin/Kshitiz
Design space exploration
Nov. 13
Jae/Shoaib Design
space exploration Nov. 15
Hui/Tan Verification Nov. 27
Faycal/John Testing Nov. 29
Girish/Idan
System-level design
Dec. 4
Greg/Scott System-level design Dec. 6
10/23/07
Guidelines
for proposal presentation
For lectures on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, each project team will be given 15-18 minutes to propose your research ideas. Here are some guidelines (time allocation for each part is reference only):
a) 6-8 minutes to cover existing work: what have been done and what is the state-of-art, etc.
b) 6-8 minutes to cover the motivation of your proposed research project, some initial ideas if you already have, and the overall plan (i.e., who will carry out which part in the team, what will be your expected results, etc.)
c) 3 minutes for questions and answers.
d) Each team member should have a chance to participate for the presentation; overall slide number should be around 15.
e) Please send your slides to Prof. Chen by midnight of Oct. 29th (all the teams please). 3 teams will present on Oct. 30 and the other 4 teams will present on Nov. 1. Here are the assignments:
Oct. 30:
1. Girish/Idan
2. Shoaib
3. Hui/Tan
Nov. 1:
1. Faycal/John
2. Jaeho
3. Kshitiz/Nitin
4. Greg/Scott
Guidelines for preparing
for the initial report
1) First give your project an attractive and meaningful title just like you are writing a research paper.
2) The report will contain the following sections
a) Abstract
b) Introduction (background, related work, and motivation of this work)
c) Project objective
d) Proposed approach
e) Expected results: can be expected experimental results, deliverables, or demos, etc.
f) Task allocation among team members and overall plan.
3) The slides you presented can be a good starting point.
4) Overall, target 4 pages, double column, single line space and font 10.
5) This initial report counts for 10% of the total project grade.
6) The report is due by Midnight of Nov. 8th. Please email your report (PDF format) to Prof. Chen.
08/22/07
Start of Fall 2007 Semester
Welcome to ECE-598BL course!