CSE 1105 Summer 2004
Dr. Tiernan’s section (601) consists only of students who are taking 1105 in order to change from an earlier UTA catalog to the 2003-2005 catalog. All of these students have completed CSE 1111. During CSE 1105 in Summer 2004 the students will work in teams to complete three major projects which will all be designed to benefit the future freshman who will take 1104/1105 in later semesters.
General course information including teams and project overview:
1) Students will work in teams of 3 or 4. Students may self-select teams within the 1st week of class or Dr. T will assign members to teams. All students will be on a team as of Tuesday, June 8th.
2) Teams will complete 3 projects during the semester, one each of the Exercise Project, the Engineering Project and the Presentation Project.Project descriptions are given below.
3) For each project, the team must submit a project proposal request with their desired project content to Dr. T by e-mail. Each project proposal MUST be approved by Dr. T with e-mail verification of approval before team may start working on the project. The last day to submit proposal requests for any of the three projects is June 29th (although sooner is better.) If a proposal request has not been received by June 29th, the team will receive a zero (0) for that project.
4) Projects may be completed in any order. Each team must complete at least one project by mid-semester July 7th.
5) For projects with required presentations and demonstrations, Dr. T and the TA will schedule class and lab times for the presentations/demos and presentations/demos will be taped.
6) Course grading will be based on the thoroughness, usability, and creativity of the presentations and projects and on team participation as assessed by the team members. Dr. T will give the grades but Dr. Peterson may contribute to the grading as well.
Project descriptions:
Create or modify three or more computer science focused exercises or labs for CSE 1105 for one of the following systems:
Infinity Project (available in NH 123 and 124)
MATLAB (available through OIT)
If the team creates new exercises or labs, they must turn in the code produced, any required teaching material to explain the labs to CSE1105 students, and the assessment tools (test questions, written exercises, etc.) that would go with the new exercises or labs (at least one assessment tool per exercise). The new exercises or labs must also be demonstrated to the class during a scheduled demonstration.
If the team is modifying existing exercises or labs or other tools, they must turn in all code that is modified or added on top of the existing, the assessment tools they have created, the needed teaching materials, and the rationale for why the team chose the exercises that they used (what made them good CSE choices or made them easy to slant to CSE…)
The Exercise Project proposal request must include which system your team will be developing for, whether you will create new labs or new exercises using existing labs or other types of new material, the deliverables you will provide, and the expected delivery date for this project.
Find or create an engineering project for 1104 teams and demonstrate this project to the class. As an example, last semester CSE1104 made edible race cars (http://www.nsta.org/main/news/pdf/tst0203_33.pdf) that were then rated on speed, durability, design, size, etc. (so no you can’t choose edible race cars.) One potential project is a “Rube Goldberg”- type ballot marker (http://www.anl.gov/OPA/rube/) but you may create your own idea or research existing projects and demonstrate them.
For the project your team finds/creates you must provide all the specifications and constraints that an 1104 team would need (like cost, size, materials, etc.), the criteria that would determine the “best” team (can have multiple “best” categories) and you must provide any props that would be needed to test the project (example – the ramp to race the edible cars). Your team may borrow a prop for testing ONLY IF that same prop could be borrowed by 1104 in future semesters (for example, something you might borrow from a student organization or a dept. lab) .
The Engineering Project proposal request must include a brief description of the project and an expected cost if any, the time estimated for an 1104 team to accomplish the project, and the criteria for judgement, and the expected delivery date for this project.
Find a topic – either in 1104/1105 now or that you would like to see included – and prepare a presentation on this topic as it would be done for the freshmen (exactly as it would be done). You may suggest other presenters but your team must do the presentation as if YOU were to teach it in 1104/1105. The choices of presentation topics will include those currently in 1104/1105 (you will get a copy of the most recent syllabi for these) as well as topics that you feel would be good but are not currently covered in those classes. The presentation must be at least 30 minutes long and will be videotaped. (Be creative – multi-media, hand puppets, stage sets, whatever.)
The Presentation Project proposal request must include a topic along with a second choice topic. Dr. T will assign your final topic.