CS681 Software Engineering

Ethan Bolker
Fall, 2003

This is the home page for CS681-682-683, the MS capstone project course in software engineering.

Introduction

A brief outline of my view of the course - essentially, notes for the first class.

Class list

home pages and email addresses for students enrolled in this class.

Class meetings

Fall: Tu, Th 14:30-15:45, 16:00-17:15, in room S-2-062
Spring: same time, probably same room

Fall Schedule

I will keep the one in $CS681/fallSchedule.html reasonably up to date. The schedule for project deliverables lives in $CS681/deliverables/index.html.

Assignments

Projects

Here's some of our discussion about how rated the potential projects when we decided to choose these four, and how we created the teams.

One of the Fall term deliverables was to pitch the projects to (pretend) venture capitalists. Here's the assignment and outcome.

Project Deliverables

Texts

Grading

A separate grade will be awarded for each of CS681, CS682 and CS 683. Your grades for CS681 and CS683 will be based on a combination of the work done by your group and your individual contribution to that effort. Your grade for CS682 will be based on your written assignments, how you present yourself in your CV and your personal web page, your participation in class and your examination results (if there are examinations - I have not yet decided). All of these matter. Although I will not assign specific percentages to each of these items, you will not be able to earn an A unless you do good work in all these areas. I do understand that not everyone is an accomplished speaker, that some of us find participating in discussions painful, and that English is a second language for most of you.

Links

Finding me

My office is in S-3-179, behind the Department office. I will be in my office Tuesday and Thursday when not in class, and usually on Wednesday afternoons (unless there's a meeting I need to go to) and other times I'll post in my .plan. I read and respond to my email (eb@cs.umb.edu) regularly. My office phone is (617)287-6444. You can find my home phone on my .plan. Please use it rarely (for emergencies) and not after 9 PM.

Accommodations

Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 offers guidelines for curriculum modifications and adaptations for students with documented disabilities. If applicable, students may obtain adaptation recommendations from the Ross Center for Disability Services, M-1-401, (617-287-7430). The student must present these recommendations and discuss them with each professor within a reasonable period, preferably by the end of Drop/Add period.

Student Conduct

Students are required to adhere to the University Policy on Academic Standards and Cheating, to the University Statement on Plagiarism and the Documentation of Written Work, and to the Code of Student Conduct as delineated in the catalog of Undergraduate Programs, pp. 44-45, and 48-52. The Code is available online at http://www.umb.edu/student_services/student_rights/code_conduct.html.

For my own elaboration on the rules concerning the acknowledgment of intellectual debt, particularly appropriate in this course where the focus is on teamwork, see http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/honesty.html