1. CS 410 Professional Workforce Development I Spring 2019
Module 2: Project Selection and Presentation Skills 01/19/ /08/2019
Week January 2019
Instructor: Jim Brunelle
Office: E&CS 3111 (757-xxx-xxxx)
Office Hours: Tuesday or by Appt

2. Lecture Agenda 1030-1035: Welcome/Announcements
: Previous CS410 Projects Evaluations
: Individual Societal Problem Presentations – “Good” Examples
: Pictures Tell a Story
: Upcoming Assignments (expectations/approach)
Individual Societal Problem Presentation Due: 02/04/2019
Peer Presentation Evaluation Due: 02/08/2019
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3. Instructor “Self-Assessment” Score
Week 2:
1st 20 minutes:
“Ah+UM”: 26
Unnecessary “So”: 15
Remaining 90 Mins:
Ah+UM”: 26
Unnecessary “So”: 8
Totals:
Ah+UM”: 52
Unnecessary “So”: 23
Other “noteworthy” habits:
“sort of”, “kind of”
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4. “Communications Skills – both written and verbal are important because we are in the business of producing shipbuilders and leaders in the shipping industry”
Dr. Alecia Uzzle
Academic and Student Affairs Manager
The Apprentice School at Newport News Shipbuilding
Published in the Nov-Dec 2018 Issue of Coastal Virginia Magazine
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5. One of 14 Current Openings…
Engineer Software 1 (College) External Job Description Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions. Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software. Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems. Ensures software standards are met.
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6. Assignment Guidelines
Evaluate a Previous CS410 Project Due: 01/27/2019
Select and critique a previous CS410 project:
Submitted Report should include the following:
What societal problem did they select?
Who was their customer?
Who was their end user (i.e. How were these people suffering and why - what needs to be accomplished/changed/enhanced)
What was their solution?
What did they do well?
What could they have done better?
Your submission should be appropriately formatted as a Report:
Structure report in paragraph format
Include selected Project Title, Team, Time-frame (Spring 2017)
Include appropriate paragraph headers to convey structure and flow (i.e. Project Summary, Customer/Users, Solution Overview, Overall Assessment)
Maximum length – 2 pages
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7. Evaluate a Previous CS410 Project Synopsis
Projects Evaluated:
Never Alone (Spring 2017)*
Documeta  (Fall 2018)
Crime Hot Spot (Fall 2018) – 2x
Diet RPG(Spring 2017) – 3X
Battery Banker(Fall 2015)
CRYPTOLIO  (Spring 2018)**
Traffic Wizard(Fall 2011)
Campus Event Manager(Spring 2016)
Handling Feedback – Compliments are easy to take. Criticism is difficult – but usually constructive
Previous 410 Review
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8. Individual Societal Problem Presentation Guidance
Due: 02/04/2019
Format: Narrated Powerpoint Presentation
Objective: Provide a convincing synopsis of your problem, domain, challenges, solulution concept
Key Elements:
Problem description – including why this needs to be solved
Customers, end-users – who they are, what it does for them
Your solution/concept – include illustrations, examples, and/or afunctional diagram
Identify challenges/obsticals to overcome
Provide a conclusion
Provide refrences
Time Limit: 7-8 Minutes
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9. Individual Societal Problem Presentations “Good” Examples
Things to Look For:
Title Page – Does it Hint at what this is/capture interest?
Problem description – including why this needs to be solved
Customers, end-users – who they are, what it does for them (note costomers and end-users are often different entities)
Solution/concept – does it include illustrations, examples, and/or a functional diagram
Is there a competive field identified (i.e. Of there are other solutions already available – how is this concept better)?
Are challenges/obsticals to overcome identified?
Is there a conclusion
Did the author provide references
General formatting, look/appeal, level of information on slides, does it fit together?, does it flow?
Societal Problem Examples
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10. Individual Societal Problem Presentation Advice
Review the assignment guidelines (Module 2)
Look over previous CS 410 projects:
You may find parallels to your proposed ideas
Content/approach, etc. gives you a sense of what you/your group will need to accomplish
Review your presentation, again and again – have others look at it/listen to it – then submit it in the discussion board (for peer review, discussion, and potential selection)
Don’t read a script – it will be obvious and boring
Consider presentation constructs to explain, clarify, convince...:
Information or process flows (before/after)
User story diagrams
Feasibility data
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11. Individual Societal Problem Presentation Grading
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12. Pictures Tell a Story – Block Diagrams “OK”
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13. Pictures Tell a Story – Eye-candy Tells it Better
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14. Pictures Tell a Story – Data “Sells”
Historical
Improved State
Future State
Course
AutoTracker
After processing
True
Speed
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15. Pictures Tell a Story – SW Meets HW System-Level SW Architecture
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16. Upcoming Assignments Peer Presentation Evaluation Due: 02/08/2019
Review every Societal Problem Presentation posted
Assess whether or not the problem/potential resolution is:
Really a need that does not already have a solution
Suitable to be resolved by a software-based solution
Non-trivial, innovative, achievable
One that you are interested in, can embrace and commit to analyzing and supporting efforts to define, design, and ultimately implement (within the CS time frame)
Select your top 5 choices.
List these choices in order of interest (with 1 denoting your first choice).
Submit this list on Blackboard under the Submissions link.
Evaluate a Previous CS410 Project Resubmit (Optional) by: 02/08/2019
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17. What’s coming…
February 8: Peer Presentation Evaluation review/group formation (we will have two groups) February 12: Group Web Site Setup (Note “1 Getting Started”)
Group: A collection of individuals who have regular contact and frequent interaction, mutual influence, common feeling of camaraderie, and who work together to achieve a common set of goals
Teamwork: The collaborative effort of a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
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