CS4490z/4460z Project Proposal

Due: Friday Oct. 3, 2008 at 5 p.m.

Weight: 5%

Hand in:  a single-sided paper document, either to my mailbox in the Computer Science main office (give it to the office staff in MC355) or to my office, MC416 (if I'm not there, slide it under the door).

Note: The Project Proposal must be signed by your supervisor(s) to indicate approval of the project content.

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Your project proposal should include at least the following:

• Title page
• title of project
• whether it is a software project or a research project
• your name and email address
• name of your supervisor(s)
• signature of the supervisor(s), indicating approval of the proposal

• Introduction
• brief introduction to the subject area (to set your project into context)
• motivation for the project (i.e. why is your project being done?)
• Problem Statement
• Proposed Solution
• Requirements regarding the use of specialized equipment or unusual software (if any)
• Timetable:  This should include milestones in your project, including some breakdown of the steps involved in researching and completing your project, with approximate dates for each milestone.
• References (if applicable)

For a research project, the proposal should also contain:

• Plan for your progress reports: What do you plan to achieve by each progress report milestone?
  
  For example:
• progress report 1: literature search
• progress report 2: literature review and terminology
• progress report 3: draft report

Approximate length:

All projects are different, but an approximate length of 2 to 4 pages (not including Title Page) is suggested. (This is not a hard and fast rule; it is just to give you an idea of the level of detail required for this document.)