Fall 2009
Syllabus
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Location:
The class meets in ECS 131 from 11:00am until 11:50am on Tuesday and Thursday.
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Instructor:
Dr. Yi Liu
Department of EE &CS
Office: ECS 119
Office phone: (605) 688-5280
E-mail: yi.liu@sdstate.edu
Web page:http://www.engineering.sdstate.edu/~liuy/courses/SE340
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Office hours:
Monday and Wednesday 2-4:30pm, or by appointment
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Course Description:
This is a capstone senior design team project. Students will work as part of a team to develop solutions to
problems posed by customers. The project may require considerable software development or evolution and maintenance
of existing software products. Students will write the specifications and complete the initial design.
Oral and written reports are required.
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Prerequisite:
Prerequisite for this course is SE 420.
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Course Goals:
The primary goal of this course is to provide the students with a realistic design experience to develop the skills that
their future employers consider fundamental to software engineering.
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Course Outcomes:
A student who successfully completes this course should be able to:
- demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of science, engineering, and mathematics.
- demonstrate an ability to conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
- demonstrate an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.
- demonstrate the ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.
- demonstrate an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems that can be resolved by developing software systems.
- demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral form.
- demonstrate knowledge of contemporary issues.
- demonstrate an ability of use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
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Textbook:
No specific textbooks. However, handouts, papers or project related materials will be given during the class.
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Assignments:
- All students are expected to complete their assignments by their due schedule. If the assignment is submitted late, a penalty of 10 percent of that assignment's grade will be assessed for each day it is late. A homework assignment will NOT be accepted after graded papers have been returned, after a solution has been distributed, or after the final exam.
- If an assignment is missed for any reason, then a grade of zero will be recorded for that assignment grade.
- If not explicitly indicated, all assignments and exams are individual.
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Grading:
- The grading scale is A[90..100],B[80..89],C[70..79],D[60,69],and F[0..59].
- Credit toward the semester grade will be allocated to each of the components as follows:
| Design project: |
90% |
| Presentations: |
10% |
- Students who wish to discontinue the class must officially drop the course; otherwise a grade of zero will be
recorded for all missed assignments and tests used to calculate the final course grade.
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Attendance:
Attendance is strongly recommended. If a student misses a class without a valid excuse, the student should not expect individualized instructions over what was missed.
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Cheating and Plagiarism Policy
Unless otherwise indicated, any homework assignment given in this class will be an individual assignment. Homework assignments must represent the individual effort of the student, without assistance from others. Cheating and copying on quizzes and exams are NOT allowed. Plagiarism on programming assignments will NOT be tolerated. All students involved in assignments handed in that indicate copying or cheating will be given a zero grade for that work. Anyone caught cheating on an exam will be given a zero grade for that exam. In addition, violation of the academic policy could result in disciplinary action by the University.
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Student Disabilities Services Statement:
It is the responsibility of any student with a disability who requests a reasonable accommodation to contact the Office of Disability Services (Wintrode 125, 688-4504), as soon as possible. The instructor must receive permission from the Office of Disability Services in order for any special accommodations to be given.
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Freedom in learning:
Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of study in which they are enrolled. Under Board of Regents and University policy, student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their personal opinion or conduct should first contact the instructor of the course. If the student remains unsatisfied, the student may contact the department head and/or dean of the college which offers the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.
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