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May 10 The results are in:

  • Best projects as voted by peers (39 students voted out of 42 in the class):

    1. Team 05 NextWallet -- 116 points, coefficient 3.22 [30 votes received out of 36 possible]
    2. Team 04 gSales -- 108 points, coefficient 3.00 [30 votes received out of 36 possible]
    3. Team 11 VLTIF -- 104 points, coefficient 2.97 [28 votes received out of 35 possible]

    Apr 27: The handout for Project Part 4 is available in section Homework below. Due date for documentation is Tuesday May 8, 2012, 8:00 pm.

    Apr 20: The announcement for the 2012 CSE Senior Projects Workshop is available [here]. The workshop will take place on Friday May 4, from 9:00 am to 4:15 pm, in HREL-109 and HREL-110. The detailed workshop schedule can be found [here].

    Apr 12: The deadline for Project Video (extended) is Monday April 30 at 12:00 pm. The handout is available in section Homework below.

    Textbook

    [AN-2005] Arlow and Neustadt, UML 2.0 and the Unified Process, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2005.

    Teaching team

    Instructor: Dr. Sergiu Dascalu
    Teaching Assistant: Mr. Chris Ballinger, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering student

    Lectures

    Lecture 01 (Jan 24): Course syllabus [pptx]
    Lecture 02 (Jan 26): On Senior Projects [pptx] and Chapter 1: What is UML?
    Lecture 03 (Jan 31): Chapter 2: What is UP? and Chapter 3: Requirements Workflow
    Lecture 04 (Feb 02): Chapter 4: Use Case Modeling and Chapter 5: Advanced Use Case Modeling
    Lecture 05 (Feb 07): Project meetings: 9:30 am - Team 12; 10:00 am - Team 11; 10:30 am - Team 10
    Lecture 06 (Feb 09): Project meetings: 9:30 am - Team 09; 10:00 am - Team 08; 10:30 am - Team 07
    Lecture 07 (Feb 14): Individual project work. Project meetings: WED Feb 15 2:00 pm Team 05;
    Lecture 08 (Feb 16): Project meetings: 9:30 am - Team 03; 10:00 am - Team 02; 10:30 am - Team 01; 1:00 pm - Team 06; 2:00 pm - Team 04
    Lecture 09 (Feb 21): Chapter 7: Objects and Classes and Chapter 8: Analysis Classes
    Lecture 10 (Feb 23): Chapter 9: Relationships and Chapter 10: Generalization
    Lecture 11 (Feb 28): Chapter 14: Activity Diagrams
    Lecture 12 (Mar 01): Presentations round I: Team 12, Team 02, Team 09. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Monday March 5.
    Lecture 13 (Mar 06): Chapter 21: Statecharts and Chapter 22: Advanced Statecharts and Graduating class photo
    Lecture 14 (Mar 08): Presentations round I: Team 04, Team 10, Team 11. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Monday March 12.
    Lecture 15 (Mar 13): Presentations round I: Team 08, Team 03, Team 06. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Friday March 16.
    Lecture 16 (Mar 15): Presentations round I: Team 01, Team 05, Team 07. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Monday March 19.
    Lecture 17 (Mar 27): Chapter 19: Interfaces and Components and draw for demo and presentation order
    Lecture 18 (Mar 29): Midterm exam
    Lecture 19 (Apr 03): Project group meetings
    Lecture 20 (Apr 05): Project group meetings
    Lecture 21 (Apr 10): Project progress demos: 9:30 am - Team 03; 10:10 am - Team 07; 1:00 pm - Team 06; 6:00 pm - Team 02
    Lecture 22 (Apr 11): Project progress demos: 11:00 am - Team 01; 3:00 pm - Team 08; 6:00 pm - Team 05
    Lecture 23 (Apr 12): Project progress demo: 9:30 am - Team 11; 10:10 am - Team 10; 11:00 am - Team 09; 1:00 pm - Team 04; 6:00 pm - Team 12
    Lecture 24 (Apr 17): Presentations round II: Team 02, Team 08, Team 10. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Friday April 20.
    Lecture 25 (Apr 19): Presentations round II: Team 04, Team 03, Team 01. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Monday April 23.
    Lecture 26 (Apr 24): Presentations round II: Team 07, Team 12, Team 05. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Friday April 27.
    Lecture 27 (Apr 26): Presentations round II: Team 06, Team 09, Team 11. Feedback form is available [here]. Please send your feedback to the instructor by Saturday April 28.
    Lecture 28 (Apr 30): MONDAY Final project demos:
  • 10:00 am Team 06
  • 02:30 pm Team 01
  • 03:15 pm Team 08
  • 05:30 pm Team 05
  • 07:00 pm Team 12
    Lecture 29 (May 01): TUESDAY Final project demos:
  • 09:00 am Team 03
  • 09:40 am Team 11
  • 10:20 am Team 02
  • 11:15 am Team 09
  • 12:15 pm Team 07
  • 01:00 pm Team 10
  • 01:45 pm Team 04
    Lecture 30 (May 04): Senior Projects Workshop

    Homework

    Project Part 4: [pdf]. Demos on April 30 and May 1, documentation due by Tuesday May 8, 8:00 pm.
    Video: [pdf]. Due date (extended) is Monday April 30, at 12:00 pm. Sample videos from past years are available [here].
    Project Poster: [pdf]. Due date is Friday April 6, at 5:00 pm. Sample posters from past years: [one], [two], [three], [four], and [five].
    Project Part 3: Progress demos. No handout. Evaluation by the instructor of progress demos held between April 10 and April 12, 2012. Weight in the course grade: 8%.
    Project Part 2: [pdf]. Due Friday March 9 at 8:00 pm.
    Project Part 1: [pdf]. Due Friday February 24 at 8:00 pm (by email, one submission per project)
    Project Website: [pdf]. Due Friday February 10 at 8:00 pm by email.

    Tests

    Midterm exam: Thursday March 29, from 9:30 am (regular class time and room). Study required is indicated here. A sample test from the past can be found here.

    Project Teams

    Team 01:
  • Students: Kim, Nitish, Nate
  • External advisors: Dr. Fred Harris (CSE UNR), Dr. Laurence Bray (EBME UNR)
  • Project: NeuroTranslate

    Team 02:
  • Students: Kat, Rui, Andrew, Yale
  • External advisor(s): Mr. Eric Fritzinger, Dr. Sergiu Dascalu (CSE UNR)
  • Project: Nevada Climate Change Portal: Data Visualizations

    Team 03:
  • Students: Nirali, Navneet, Devyani
  • External advisors: Dr. Monica Nicolescu, Mr. Richard Kelley, Mr. Brad Towle, Ms. Liesl Wigand (CSE UNR)
  • Project: ROS-based Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

    Team 04
  • Students: Tim, Matt, Jeremy
  • External advisor: Mr. Richard Kelley (CSE UNR)
  • Project: GSales

    Team 05:
  • Students: Rakib, Parth, Tom
  • External advisor(s): Mr. Saurabh Singh (Bally Technologies Reno, NV)
  • Project: NextWallet

    Team 06:
  • Students: Harpreet, Omid, Michael N, Dickson
  • External advisors: Dr. Grant Hennig (School of Medicine, UNR), Dr. Adrienne Breland (CSE UNR), Dr. Fred Harris (CSE UNR)
  • Project: RNA Sequence Matching

    Team 07:
  • Students: Nick, Kevin, Keith
  • External advisor: Mr. Ken Ceglia (GE, Minden, NV)
  • Project: G.E.C.C.O.S

    Team 08:
  • Students: Erin, Chris, CJ, Clayton
  • External advisor: Mr. Michael McMahon, Jr. (CSE UNR)
  • Project: ASIS: Automatic Sprinkler and Irrigation System

    Team 09:
  • Students: Krysta, Jeff, Gui
  • External advisor(s): Mr. Steve Bingham (UNR PD), Dr. Dwight Egbert (CSE UNR)
  • Project: Security Blanket: Theft Recovery Database

    Team 10:
  • Students: Rai, Mike V, Brian H, Aaron
  • External advisor: Mr. Richard Kelley (CSE UNR)
  • Project: MVP - Multiview Visual Pipeline Programmer

    Team 11:
  • Students: Marvin, Josh, Issa, Steve
  • External advisor: Dr. George Bebis (CSE UNR)
  • Project: Vehicle Location by Thermal Image Features

    Team 12:
  • Students: Brian S, Spencer, Remis, Evander
  • External advisor: Mr. Joe Sanford (SNC, Reno, NV)
  • Project: UWB Wireless Network for SNC Transportation Telemedicine Project