ECE 746 - Project

Project Timeline

• 02/07 Draft Project Specifications Due
• 02/21 Project Specifications Due
• 03/20 -- 03/24 Progress Report
• 04/25 Project Paper Draft Due
• 05/02 Project Reviews Due
• 05/05 Project Presentations
• 05/09 Final Project Paper Due

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Project Resources

• Project Guidelines: (pdf)
• Please, use the templates below for the preparation of your project report. Page limit is 10 pages, 10pt font. Using LaTeX is strongly encouraged.
  • IEEE Author Digital Tool Box
  • IEEE Article Templates and Instructions including MS Word Template and Instructions on How to Create Your Paper, LaTeX style files, bibliography templates, etc.
• Project Presentations and Reports from previous years: 2011 | 2008 | 2006
• LaTeX
  • LaTeX: MikTex (Windows), TeX Live (Windows, Linux, Max)
  • Integrated Development Environment (Windows, Linux, Mac): TeXstudio
  • PDF Viewer (that does not lock the file so you can see file updates immediately): Sumatra PDF (Windows), Okular (Linux, KDE), Evince (Linux, Gnome), or any other you like.

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Project Grading Criteria

Project Specifications (6 points)

• Completeness (based on the guidelines)
• Clarity of main project goals
• Thoroughness of the literature search

Project Report (20 points)

• Results (12 points)
• Working implementation
• Testing methods
• Performance
• Analysis of results
• Agreement with Theory
• Practicality
• Difficulty of the project

• Documentation (8 points)
• Introduction
• Analysis of the papers you read
• Discussion of the results
• Figures and tables
• Conclusions
• Proper references
• Paper organization

Project Reviews (4 points)

• Understanding of the main contributions of the paper
• Helpfulness of comments to the authors
• Thoroughness of paper review

Project Presentation (10 points)

• Content
• Background
• Results and Conclusion
• Organization of the presentation
• Quality of the slides
• Discussion of the encountered problems
• Handling questions
• Clarity of the presentation
• Presentation style
• Timing