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CS 307 has a long tradition of offering students an opportunity to work in small teams on a project sponsored by a company. Since 1991 Bellcore (now Telcordia), Boeing, Harris, HP, Intel, Motorola, Peregrine, Sabre, Tellabs, Tektronix, and Tivoli have sponsored projects in 307. (formerly CS406). While the students get an opportunity to work on real-world problems, the sponsoring company is able to expose the students to its products and services. Such exposure often leads to the company hiring one or more students who graduate from CS after having done CS 307. In almost all cases, students struggle with the project at the start of the course. By the end of the course they tend to have mastered the project requirements, developed a design, and built a formidable prototype. As this is a class project, the sponsoring company should not expect a fully working product that they could use. However, all project reports and prototypes will be available to the sponsor for internal use. |
Expectation from Sponsors A project sponsor must assign a company employee who will be responsible for attending, via video conference or in person, all project presentations related to the sponsored project and responding to questions from the students. There will be eight project presentations of an average of about 20 minutes each. In addition the sponsor should plan for about an hour of per week of time spent answering questions from students. Please note that CS307 does not focus on teaching students how to program. Instead, it attempts to teach them how to analyze requirements, design a system, build a prototype and test it. Thus students in this class will likely spend more time in analysis and design than on coding. Grading All class grading is the responsibility of the course instructor, sponsors are not directly involved in the grading process. |
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| Latest update: June 24, 2008 |
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