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# Project Details
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The goal of the course project is to dive more deeply into a particular topic.
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The project can be completed in **groups of three** (or in rare situations,
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groups of two). A good project could lead to some kind of publication. This
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project could take different forms:
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- **Conceptual**: Develop a new technique, extend an existing method, or explore
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a new application
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- **Experience report**: Experiment with an implementation, trying out different
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examples and describing the overall experience. Or implement something new.
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- **Literature survey**: Select a couple (3-5) of closely related papers in a
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recent research area. Summarize the significance, then compare and contrast.
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- **Other**: Feel free to propose other kinds of projects.
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If at any point you have trouble finding a project, run into difficulties, or
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just don't know what to do, **please come talk to me as soon as possible** and I
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will help you get unstuck.
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## Deliverables
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In order to keep projects on track, each group will turn in two milestone
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reports along the way, **1-2 pages each**. At one-third of the way through, you
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should have settled on a project goal and made some exploratory steps.
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- **Milestone 1**. Describe the project goal as concretely as possible,
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summarize what preliminary things have been tried, and plan out directions to
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explore next.
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[Heilmeier's Catechism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Heilmeier#Heilmeier%27s_Catechism)
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is a good set of questions to keep in mind.
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At two-thirds of the way through, the project should be progressing and it
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should be clear what remains to be done.
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- **Milestone 2**. Clarify the project goal, summarize current progress, and
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plan out how to finish remaining items. Describe what you think can definitely
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be done, along with reach goals to try if things go well.
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Besides the milestones, the main deliverable of the project will be a written
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final report, around **15-20 pages** in length (in some reasonable format).
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Reports should be written in a research paper style, covering the following
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areas in some reasonable order:
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- **Introduce** the problem and the motivation.
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- **Review** background and preliminary material.
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- **Develop** the main technical core of the project.
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- **Evaluate** the results.
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- **Survey** related work.
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At the end of the course, each group will give a brief project presentation.
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