SE690/696/698 Software Engineering Research Seminar and Project

(For Completing the Research Option in M.S. Software Engineering)

AY 2006/2007

Dr. Xiaoping Jia
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications,
and Information Systems
DePaul University

Advising hours: Friday 4:00 -- 6:00pm, Loop campus
(Make appointments through the CTI web)
Office: Room 843, CST Building
Tel: (312) 362-6251, Fax: (312)362-6116
E-mail: jia@cs.depaul.edu
Home page: http://venus.cs.depaul.edu/xjia/

The Aims
Requirements
Up-Coming Meeting Schedule
Documents and Links
Past Projects and Presentations

The Aims

The Software Engineering Research Seminar is for students who choose the Research Option of the M.S. Software Engineering program, which consists of SE690 followed by either SE696 (Master's Project) or SE698 (Master's Thesis). The SE seminar meetings are open to all students. A student may start to attend SE seminar meetings without officially registering SE690.

The aims of the SE seminars are:

to expose students to the most current developments and trends in the field of software engineering;

for students to improve their presentation, communication, and writing skills;

to prepare students for their Master's projects or theses; and

to provide a forum for students to present their research work to offer critiques of other's work.

Requirements of the Research Option

Attendance and Participation

The Software Engineering Seminar meets during the Fall, Winter and Spring quarters. There are no meetings during the summer. Students may not take SE690 concurrently with SE696 or SE698. So it takes at least 2 quarters for students to complete the Research Option. Students are only required to register for SE690 (4 credit hours) once and followed by SE696 or SE698 (4 credit hours). After that, students are required to register SE691 (0 credit hours) until they successfully complete all the requirements of the Research Option.

Each student is required to:

Deliver the following presentations and reports:
- A formal research proposal, which must be approved by the research adviser.
- An initial presentation of the proposal at a research group meeting arranged by the research adviser.
- A progress report and an intermediate presentation at a research group meeting arranged by the research adviser.
- For Master's Project (SE696), a final report and a formal final presentation at a general meeting of SE690 attended by all current software engineering students in the research phase. The general meetings are scheduled at the end of Fall, Winter and Spring quarters. For students who reside outside the Chicago area, the final presentations may be delivered via video conferencing.
- For Master's Thesis (SE698), a thesis and a defense in front a committee that consists of three faculty members, including the research adviser. The thesis defense is open to all students.
Maintain a web site on your research project using the provided template until the completion of all requirements. The proposals, reports, and presentations must be posted on the web-site. A draft of the final report or thesis must be made available on the web site four weeks before the scheduled final presentation or defense.
All students should either attend workshops on research-related skills development or view the recorded workshops on-line.
Participate in the peer review process. Each student who has completed his or her research proposal must review two final reports or theses of other students. Drafts of the final reports or theses to be reviewed should be made available by the authors on their project web site four weeks before the scheduled final presentations or defenses. The reviews must be completed and submitted one week before the scheduled final presentations or defenses.
Participate in the CTI Research Symposium by contributing a poster or a paper presentation.
The specific requirements and deliverables may vary depending on the nature of the projects or theses. The requirements and deliverables shall be decided by the advisers of the projects or theses individually.

Grades for SE690

You will only receive a grade after successful completion of all the requirements. If you do not complete all the requirements in the quarter you registered for SE690, you will receive a 'R' grade for continuing research.

Distinction for Software Engineering Students in the Research Option

The criteria for students who choose the Research Option of M.S. Software Engineering to receive distinction at graduation are:

Receive an 'A' grade in SE696 or SE698, and
Maintain a GPA of 3.9 or better.

Detailed Guidelines

Meetings Schedule for Spring AY 2006/2007

April 13, 2007, Friday, 4:00-6:00pm, CST Building Room 224
June 1, 2007, Friday, 4:00-6:00pm, CST Building Room 224

Documents and Links

Projects

Here are the links to the current projects by Software Engineering Students.

Project descriptions

Research Methodologies

A workshop by Tracy Seneca of DePaul Library on using library resources for research.
Video [wmv]
A workshop by Chris Jone on research methodologies and paper writing.
PowerPoint slides [ppt]
Video [wmv]
A workshop by Prof. Harold Streeter on Do's and Don'ts of Presentations.
PowerPoint slides [ppt]
Video [wmv]

Xiaoping Jia

Last modified: Thu Mar 22 04:56:25 CST 2007