Senior Project II.

Catalog description

Semester course; 1 seminar hour. 1 credit. Prerequisites: CMSC 408 , CMSC 441 and CMSC 451 , each with a minimum grade of C. Corequisite: CMSC 442 . Enrollment is restricted to Bachelor of Science in Computer Science majors with senior standing who have 24 credits in computer science courses. The weekly seminar presents and discusses topics relevant to senior-level computer science students in support of the capstone project and upcoming graduation. A single course coordinator manages and administers the course and schedules the various faculty lectures and guest speakers. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: proposal writing; project planning and management; scheduling resources and budgeting for software development projects; patents and intellectual property; entrepreneurship; ethical, legal and social issues in computing; and professional responsibilities of computer scientists. Each student will write and revise a research paper on a technical topic associated with his or her project or experience. Students must continue on the same project that was started in CMSC 451 . A final project report and presentation, which will include a discussion of associated legal, social and/or ethical issues, are due at the conclusion of the two-semester project or experience. The courses in this sequence cannot be counted as upper-level CMSC electives for students graduating under bulletins prior to 2008-09.