Fall 2000

CS 689 CALENDAR
Books:
    Practical Research  Planning and Design (Seventh Edition) (PRPD)
    Writing for Computer Science   The Art of Effective Communication (WCS)
Week Date Tuesday Lecture Date Thursday Lecture Reading/Homework Assignment
1 8/22 Introduction to CS 689
The Design Metrics Research at BSU
8/24 What is Research?
Our Research Proposal Format
Research Proposal Presentation
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Chapter 1 PRPD
Chapter 11 WCS
Chapter 6 PRPD
2 8/29 Tools of Research
Literature Review
8/31 The Problem
Hypothesis and Experiments
Chapter 2 PRPD
Chapter 3 PRPD
Chapter 4 PRPD
Chapter 1,8 WCS
3 9/5 The SERC
Research Design
9/7 Writing the Proposal
Writing Styles
Chapter 5,6 PRPD
Chapter 2,3,4 WCS
4 9/12 Qualitative Research 9/14 Quantitative Research Chapter 7,8,9 PRPD
Chapter 5,6,7 WCS
5 9/19 Mathematics, Graphs, Figures and Tables 9/21 Experimental and Causal-Comparative Designs Chapter 10,11 PRPD
6 9/26 Statistical Techniques for Analyzing 9/28 Other Methods for Analysis Chapter 12 PRPD
Chapter 9,10 WCS
7 10/3 Editing and Refereeing 10/5 analysis of a reference for your proposal
8 10/10 Rani Nalamaru 
Rukmini Kaushik
10/12 Abraham George
Nagakayana Eskala
Yuanming Zhang

presentation critiques
9 10/17 Sayuri Yonekawa
Xinmin Yin
10/19 Taehoon Lee
Suprawin Wongthanawimok
literature review section of proposal completed ( please resubmit the problem description, objectives, and the importance/benefits)
presentation critiques
10 10/24 Fall Break 10/26 Jianquan Wang
Chapter 6,7 WCS
presentation critiques
11 10/31 Daniel Trubow
Gary Steffen (Ft. Wayne)
11/2 Sobha Siripurapu
presentation critiques
12 11/7 Taminee Shinasharkey
Chayan Rattanavijai
Charlie Peck (Richmond)
11/9 Douglas Wampler
Jingle Mei
Audrey Mbeje
research design and data analysis section of proposal completed (resubmit previous sections)
Chapter 8 WCS
presentation critiques
13 11/14
Hui Lin

Exploratory Data Analysis

Exploratory Data Analysis continued plus Data Mining

11/16 Hae-Soon Kwon
Stephan Kelley (Ft. Wayne)
finish final sections of proposal (schedule, facilities and special resources and deliverables)
Chapter 9,10 WCS
presentation critiques
14 11/21 Anupam Khanal
Hang Hu (Columbus)
11/23 Thanksgiving Break presentation critiques
Final Draft Proposal
(handout proposal copy to the 2 reviewers)
analysis of provided DB
15 11/28 Tai-Lin Han
Vijay Gurramkonda
11/30 Russell Fech
Kurt Detamore (Carmel)

presentation critiques
proposal critiques for randomly assigned proposal
16 12/5 Tammy Caldwell (Indianapolis)
Alexander Aved
12/7 Kevin Arvin (Loogootee)
Uday Adhikari
presentation critiques
Updated Final Proposals including updates from proposal critiques
17 12/12-12/16 Final Exam Week 
 Final  12/16 7:30 a.m - 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec 16, 2000                Awards Day

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Last Update: 08/21/2000

Name: D. Zage