CS492 Senior Design Project II

	Computer Engineering Department CS492 Senior Design Project II
Spring 2024

Course Description

CS492 Senior Design Project II course is the second half of two-semester course that will allow all senior CS students to gain and practice the required abilities and skills in the engineering design process.CS492 course is continuation of the capstone design project started in the CS491 course, with the same team.

All students enrolled in the Computer Engineering program at Bilkent University have the opportunity to learn and practice engineering design, through their coursework and, CS491 and CS492 capstone project courses will give a unique opportunity to demonstrate these skills within a team of 3-5 students.

CS491-CS492 projects are directed toward an innovative solution to a real and substantial problem. Students need to show their engineering design skills to solve practical and theoretical engineering problems that they will choose and pre-approved by the faculty. Below you can see the key skills required for this course:

Students will gain ability to identify, formulate and find innovative solutions to the open-ended engineering problem that is chosen and will translate their computer science knowledge into new context to design and implement an innovative solution as their capstone project.
Students will experience collaborative work environment and will work productively as an individual and in a team on a project that produces a innovative solution to selected problem.
Students will improve their project and team management skills, improve the ability to follow directions, instructions and project plans, and improve the ability to organize and use time effectively.
Students will show their ability and competency in oral and written communications skills through oral presentations during project presentation, course seminars and technical reports.
Students will learn to incorporate appropriate engineering standards while culminating a major engineering design experience which is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.
Students will demonstrate and improve their ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities, global, cultural, societal, economic and environmental constraints in engineering while implementing their capstone project.
Students will learn to do basic budgeting & feasibility Analysis for a start-up idea
Students will learn ethics and intellectual property considerations while building a new product or service and learn how to do market competition analysis.

Progress and results of teamwork are required to be presented in both written and oral form during the course. Teams are advised to select complex and challenging subjects so that, they can demonstrate the knowledge and skills that they got from the engineering coursework, to analyze, develop, test, iterate, improve and deliver their design concepts using modeled or simulated artifacts and working prototypes.

CS492 courses are 3 credits (6 ECTS credits). CS491 is prerequisite of CS492.

Staff:

CS491/2 Courses Instructors: Atakan Erdem and Mert Bıçakçı
CS492 Seminar Coordinators: Atakan Erdem, Mert Bıçakçı, Eray Tüzün and Can Alkan
CS492 Jury Members and Project Evaluators: Atakan Erdem and Mert Bıçakçı + 1 CS Faculty Member
CS492 TA: Kerem Bayramoğlu

Important Dates:

In general, there are two main reports that are expected from the teams: Detailed Design Report and Final Report. Detailed design report is due 3rd week of the spring semester (preferably Monday) and Final Report is due 13th week of the spring semester (preferably Thursday).

CS492 final presentation/demo is in the last week of the spring semester. Project teams are required to have at least 3 monthly meetings per semester with their supervisors.

Below are the specific deadlines set for this semester.

CS492: Detailed Design Report: 15.03.2024 10:00)
CS492: Final Report: 13.05.2024 10:00)
CS492: Presentation and Demo: Last month of the semester.
CS Fair: 1 full day (Main Campus Sports Hall - )

Deliverables of the 492 Course:

1. Detailed Design Report
3. Final Report
4. Presentation and Demo
See CS492 deliverables sub page for more information about each of them.

Grading

Total grade of CS492 course has two components:

70%: Group grade. It is the average of grades given by the 3 jury members and Innovation Experts for the performance of the group throughout the semester.

Detailed Design Report %25

Final Report %25

Presentation and Demo %20

30%: Contribution/Participation in the project. It is determined by the 3 jury members separately for each group member.

20%: Contributing and functioning effectively on a team, helps create a collaborative and inclusive teamwork environment.

10%: All other individual efforts in progress meetings, logbook usage, commits, using problem solving and leadership skills to increase the success of their team and capstone project.

The supervisor or course instructors may use some tools to monitor the progress of students incluing logbooks, peer grading, repository logs,etc. He/she does not have to use the peer grades as they are; he/she has the right to use his/her own judgment.

The letter grades will be assigned according to the following table:

Range

Grade

90-100 A

85-89 A-

80-84 B+

75-79 B

70-74 B-

65-69 C+

60-64 C

55-59 C-

50-54 D+

45-49 D

0-44 F

Course Description

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Important Dates:

Deliverables of the 492 Course:

Grading

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Projects, Seminars, and Schedule:

Range	Grade
90-100	A
85-89	A-
80-84	B+
75-79	B
70-74	B-
65-69	C+
60-64	C
55-59	C-
50-54	D+
45-49	D
0-44	F