Project
Presentation
- Amanda Benhamou, William Gou, Andrew Monheit, The-Luan Pham
- Dan Fender, Grant Geiger, Bob Protesto, Jewel Sulkoski
- Hussain Abbas, Ivana Drakes, Amber Sczuroski
- Brian Bissell, Christopher Foster, Michele Nater, Terrence Stinson [PowerPoint file]
Requirements
The course project provides an opportunity for the student to use the data collecting and analyzing techniques learned in the course to solve a practical problem.
The class is divided into 4 teams, each working on a topic chosen by the team. Reference: the "Writing Projects" after each chapter in the textbook.
At the end of the semester, each team will make a presentation to the class, covering the following content
- The topic they selected, and why.
- The data they collected, and how.
- The analysis they performed on the data.
- The conclusions they draw from the data.
- The lessons they learned in the process.
Members of a team get the same grade, unless their contribution and performance have noticeable difference.
Timeline (tentative)
- March 4 (Tuesday): Each student proposes a project topic to the class. Tentative project teams will be formed afterwards by the students themselves.
- March 5 (Wednesday): Name lists (with 3-5 names) and topic of each team are emailed to the instructor.
- March 6 (Thursday): The instructor randomly assigns the remaining students to the teams with vacancy.
- March 7 (Friday): The team list is finalized.
- March 28 (Friday): Each team submits a one-page progress report to the instructor by email.
- April 18 (Friday): Each team submits a second one-page progress report to the instructor by email.
- May 1 (Thursday): Each team makes a 20 minutes presentation to the class. All team members should participate, though not necessarily talking for the same length of time.