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May 15 Voting results are next. Congrats to these and all teams in Senior Projects 2009!

Best project by peers (all three based on 19 votes):

  • 1. IRIS (Team 9) average 3.21 points
  • 2. HEDC (Team 1) average 2.47 points
  • 3. WiELD (Team 4) average 1.95 points

    Best project at workshop
  • 1. iPACK (Team 2) average 4.78/5.00 (18 votes)
  • 2. HEDC (Team 1) average 4.72/5.00 (29 votes)
  • 3. IRIS (Team 9) average 4.58/5.00 (20 votes)

    Best presentation at workshop
  • 1. IRIS (Team 9) average 4.70/5.00 (20 votes)
  • 2. HEDC (Team 1) average 4.62/5.00 (29 votes)
  • 3. WiELD (Team 4) average 4.50/5.00 (33 votes)

    Best in class presentation (all in round 2, April 2009)
  • 1. IRIS (Team 9) average 95.8/100
  • 2. GELS (Team 3) average 94.7/100
  • 3. HEDC (Team 1) average 94.2/100

    Apr 16 The announcement for the Sr. Projects Workshop that will be held on Friday May 1 is available here. For more details, please also consult the schedule. (Files created by Muhanna Muhanna, PhD candidate).

    Textbook

    [Arlow and Neustadt 2005] Jim Arlow and Ila Neustadt, UML and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2005.

    Lectures

    Lecture 01 (Jan 20): Course syllabus: PowerPoint presentation
    Lecture 02 (Jan 22): Chapter 1: What is UML? [ppt]
    Lecture 03 (Jan 27): Invited speakers, IGT: Mr. CJ Burk and Mr. Joel Frederickson; and Chapter 2: What is UP? [slides same as Chapter 1]
    Lecture 04 (Jan 29): Project meetings: 9:00 Team 5; 9:30 Team 7; 10:00 Team 6; and 10:30 Team 8
    Lecture 05 (Feb 03): Project meetings: 9:30 Team 9; 10:00 Team 2; 10:30 Team 1; 12:00 Team 4; and 12:30 pm Team 3.
    Lecture 06 (Feb 05): Chapter 4: Use case modeling [ppt] and Chapter 5: Advanced use case modeling [ppt]
    Lecture 07 (Feb 10): Chapter 3: Requirements Workflow [ppt] and Chapters 7 and 8: Objects and Classes; Analysis Classes [ppt]
    Lecture 08 (Feb 12): Chapter 9: Relationships and Chapter 10: Inheritance [ppt]
    Lecture 09 (Feb 17): Chapter 14: Activity Diagrams [ppt]
    Lecture 10 (Feb 19): Chapter 19: Interfaces and Components [ppt]
    Lecture 11 (Feb 24): On preparing youtube videos - by Alina Solovyova-Vincent and Daniel Fergus, Dynamic Media Lab, 1st floor, UNR Knowledge Center
    Lecture 12 (Feb 26): Round 1 of presentations: Team 2, Team 3 and Team 8. Peer feedback form is available here.
    Lecture 13 (Mar 03): Round 1 of presentations: Team 5, Team 7 and Team 1. Peer feedback form is available here
    Lecture 14 (Mar 05): Round 1 of presentations: Team 6, Team 9 and Team 4. Peer feedback form is available here
    Lecture 15 (Mar 10): Project meetings, 9:30 am Team 9, and 10:15 am Team 7. Also, on WED March 11, 3:00 pm Team 1
    Lecture 16 (Mar 12): Project meetings, 8:45 Team 6, 9:30 Team 4, 10:15 am Team 8, and 12:15 pm Team 2. Also, on FRI March 13, 8:00 am Team 5, and 11:00 am Team 3.
    Lecture 17 (Mar 24): Chapter 21: State machines and Chapter 22: Advanced state machines [ppt]
    Lecture 18 (Mar 26): Midterm test
    Lecture 19 (Mar 31): Invited speaker: Dr. Ryan Heck, UNR/DRI Technology Transfer Office, on Intellectual Property
    Lecture 20 (Apr 02): Project preparation and Drawing for presentation order
    Lecture 21 (Apr 07): Project progress demos: 9:30 am Team 6, 5:30 pm Team 1. Also, on WED April 8, 8:30am Team 9.
    Lecture 22 (Apr 09): Project progress demos: 9:30 am Team 8, 10:15 am Team 7, and 12:00 pm Team 4. Also, on FRI Apr 10, 8:00 am Team 5, 11:00 am Team 3, and 1:00 pm Team 2.
    Lecture 23 (Apr 14): Round 2 of presentations: Team 3 and Team 4. Peer feedback form is available here
    Lecture 24 (Apr 16): Round 2 of presentations: Team 2, Team 5 and Team 7. Peer feedback form is available here
    Lecture 25 (Apr 21): Round 2 of presentations: Team 8 and Team 9. Peer feedback form is available here
    Lecture 26 (Apr 23): Round 2 of presentations: Team 6 and Team 1. Peer feedback form is available here
    Lecture 27 (Apr 28): Project DEMOS as listed in each team section
    Lecture 28 (May 01): Friday May 1 is the day of the public CSE Senior Projects Workshop.

    Homework

    Project P-V (Implementation and Project demo): [word]. Demos on April 27-29, deliverables due on Wednesday May 6 at 5:00 pm (firm).
    Project P-IV (Progress demo): demos on April 7-10, 2009
    Project P_VIDEO (Video): [word]. Due date (extended) is Wednesday April 29 at 11:59 pm.
    Project P_POST (Poster): [word]. Due date is Monday March 23, at 5:00 pm. Sample posters from past years: one, two, three, and four.
    Project P-III (Design): [word]. Due date (extended) is Wednesday March 11 at 11:59 pm.
    Project P-II (Specification): [word]. Due date is Wednesday February 25, at noon (12:00 pm).
    Project P-WEB (Website): [word]. Due date is Tuesday February 17, at 5:00 pm.
    Project P-I (Concept): [word]. Due Monday February 9 at 5:00 pm.

    Midterm Exam

    Mar 26: Midterm test, from 9:30 am in the regular classroom (FH-133). Here there are: study required and samples: test 2004 and test 2006 (for these tests a different edition of the textbook was used).

    Project Teams

    Team One: Arthur LeVesque, Ryan Luna, Trevor Bullock
  • Project: Human Error Detection and Correction
  • External advisor: Dr. Kostas Bekris, CSE, UNR
  • Demo: WED April 29, at 3:00 pm

    Team Two: A.J. Henriques, Christian Maloney, Jeff Naruchitparames
  • Project: iPack: A UNR iPhone Application
  • External advisor: Brian Westphal, Flowgram Inc.
  • Demo: WED April 29, at 4:00 pm

    Team Three: Miran Kim, Xiaolu Zhang, Victor Ivanov
  • Project: GELS - General Electric Licensing System
  • External advisor: Mr. Ken Ceglia, General Electric, Nevada
  • Demo: WED April 29 at 1:00 pm

    Team Four: Joshua Hegie, Andrew Kimmel, Kelvin Parian
  • Project: WiELD-CAVE
  • External advisor: Dr. Fred Harris, CSE, UNR
  • Demo: TUE April 28 at 9:30 am

    Team Five: Amanda Sou, Curtis Richardson, Javier Garcia
  • Project: Standalone Hard Drive Manager
  • External advisor: Mr. Hector Urtubia, PC Doctor, Inc., Reno, Nevada
  • Demo: TUE April 28 at 11:00 am

    Team Six: Katie Ceglia, David Keele, Ben Seelbinder, Mike Picerno
  • Project: SLOT Tracker
  • External advisor: Mr. Ryan Ruppert, Bally Technologies, Reno, Nevada
  • Demo: TUE April 28 at 1:00 pm

    Team Seven: Darren Johnson, Kellen Dale, Joel Martinez, Vic Van Horn
  • Project: DOCS - Document Organization Computing Solutions
  • External advisors: Mr. Wes Hays, Mr. John Dell, CASAT, Reno, Nevada
  • Demo: TUE April 28 at 6:30 pm

    Team Eight: Wes Lee, Josh Greenspan, Ben Brown
  • Project: MUSE - A Music Theory Game
  • External advisors: Dr. Eelke Folmer, CSE, UNR
  • Demo: TUE April 28 at 10:15 am

    Team Nine: Cody White, Matt Whipple
  • Project: IRIS - Image Recognition Inventory System
  • External advisors: Dr. Philippe Dugerdil and Mr. Francois Wahl, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Demo: MON April 27 at 11:00 am

    Pointers

  • Nevada Governor's Cup 2009.
  • NV NSF EPSCoR Summer Undergrad Research Opportunities (UROP)
  • NURS: Nevada Undergraduate Research Symposium April 29-30 2009 [tentative dates, link will be available soon]
  • UNR General Undergraduate Research Awards (GURA). Deadline is Monday February 23, 2009
  • Zack Norcross' Group Selector
  • UNR ID Team Events