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IMPORTANT
INFORMATION REGARDING THE FINAL PROJECTS:
- Final
project (Due December 14, 2009): As your final project,
you are
required to prepare a final report on the topic you proposed in your
your final project proposal and a poster presentation of it.
Information on how to prepare these is available here. Please approach these
as guidelines, and feel free to be creative!
- The text only part of the final report
should be about 5 pages, you can include as many relevant tables and
figures as you want as long
as they are relevant and
you have descriptive captions for
these.
POSTER
SESSION:
- The poster session will take place on December
14th between 1:00-4:30pm in
room 133 SMI.
I will also collect the final reports during the poster session.
- During
the poster session, you are
supposed to stand by your posters and answer the questions of that I or
other people (faculty/students) from the audience might have. I will
look at everyone's posters and will ask you to give a brief
presentation to me (~ 2
minutes). If there are particular things that
you want to emphasize about your project, this is your chance. There
are no other
formal presentation requirements. Individuals interested in your poster
will
approach to you directly. The idea with the posters is that they
should contain sufficient information so that someone who reads your
poster will get an idea about the big picture without your help. You
will also
get a chance to see what your classmates have done and ask them
questions about their projects.
- If you have never prepared a poster
before, read the links in here
on how to prepare a
poster. I expect the lengths of your posters to vary, but given
the nature of
the projects 10 to 15 slides seem reasonable.
- Your poster might be in several
formats, don't spend too much time making them fancy. They should be
presentable (no spelling errors etc..), clear and
comprehensive.Taping your slides on a piece of
white or colored board will make organizing easier. Each poster will
then be taped to walls in room 133 SMI.
- Powerpoint (poster style) will
allow you to prepare a single document of any dimension which you can
then print to a poster board. This can be quite expensive. That is why
printing individual slides on A4 paper and taping them to a
poster board would work perfectly fine for our purposes.
On a final note, my general philosophy
with the poster session is not so much to base your grade on it (though
obviously it will help me to grade your final reports), but to
give you a chance, on an individual basis, to explain to
me what you have produced using the methodology you learnt in
this
class.
- Critique of your assigned poster (Due by 10:30am on Dec 15, 2009). Each
of you will be randomly assigned to review a poster at the beginning of
the poster session. I expect a 1/2-1 page critique emphasizing strong
and weak points of the poster that you are assigned to review. These
reports are due by 10:30am on Dec 15, 2009.
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