Syllabus
I399 Undergraduate Research in Informatics
Basic Plan
Activities
- Form teams so students learn about collaboration in research.
- Each team is nominally 3-4 students and mentor(s) and will do a project in a research area assigned to/agreed by team.
- Mentor is a “manager” and not a researcher
- The team will deliver overview of research field at mid term and research results at end of semester
- Results documented by Poster, Video placed on Youtube and usual research output (presentations, papers, web)
- Your team will work together electronically (that’s how its done in major research project) with class interactions and other team meetings
- Meet in and outside class time
- Occasional Weekly Homework – total 15%
- Midterm Project Review (Presentation, Paper) – 15%
- Individual final report – total 20%
- Team final activities ( Youtube Video, Paper) Grader, Professor Evaluation– 16%
- Team final Poster Event Evaluation - 16%
- Peer final Assessment - 3%
- Mentor final Assessment - 5%
- Attendance – total 10%
Activities
- Undergraduate Research!!
- Discuss/Summarize School of Informatics and Computing Research
- How to do a Poster/Presentation
- How to write a paper/proposal
- Tools like EndNote
- Process of Research including Ethics, Acknowledgements and dealing with related work
- How to learn from research supervisor
- Getting IRB approval
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Graduate Student round tables; applying to graduate school
