CSC 498/499
Capstone Design Project

2023-2024

Instructor: Chris Fernandes
Office: 219 Steinmetz Hall
Phone: 388-6401
Office Hours:
  • If my door is open, come on in! Otherwise,
  • TBD
  • and by appointment

Hi folks. This page acts as an introduction to 498-499, your senior project. Even though you are doing most of the work outside our meetings, you're not working in a vacuum, and you are still being graded on a weekly basis. Here are the ground rules:

Deliverables

More info about these can be found on the department's thesis page.

By the end of CSC 498, you'll create

  1. a poster that you will present at a poster session
  2. a "final design report" detailing the complete design of your project. Details about this paper can be found in these design report guidelines.

By the end of CSC 499, you'll create

  1. a revised poster with complete results (but you won't present it)
  2. a final formal presentation. Every CS senior project student will present their work by recording a short video using Zoom, in which you'll describe your project, the results, and your evaluation of the results. (15 minutes)
  3. live Q&A session with your advisor and one other faculty member who watched the video you uploaded. You'll be asked questions on your project which you will answer live. (30 minutes)
  4. your final report showing the results of your experiments, screenshots of your completed implementation, conclusions of your research, etc. Details are available in the LaTeX template on our thesis page.

You are required to write all papers in LaTeX. LaTeX and poster templates as well as 498/499 grading rubrics are all available on our thesis page.