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| ECT 437 Senior Project 1: Project Management and ECT 438 Senior Project 2: Capstone together comprise the senior project for students in the ECET department. ECT 437 is taken in the fall, and ECT 438 is taken in the fall. For ECT 437, we will be doing "standard textbook" material on project management, and we will be using those skills to begin working on your senior projects (that are completed in ECT 438).
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| This website is used to keep track of the sections of ECT 437 that are for the CS majors, taught by Jeff Kinne. The sections for other majors is managed separately and taught by Dr. Javaid.
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| | '''Contact/people''' - [[ISU CS People]], [https://cs.indstate.edu/web/index.php/ISU_CS_People#CS_Departmental_Graduate_Assistants GA Office Hours] |
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| =General Information=
| | '''Admissions''' - [[Undergraduate Admissions]], [[Graduate Admissions]], [[For New Graduate Students]] |
| '''Course website''' - https://cs.indstate.edu/web/index.php/ECT_437 | |
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| '''Your Instructor''' | | '''CS Programs''' - [[CS Programs]] ([https://catalog.indstate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=64&poid=11211&returnto=3743 BS], [https://catalog.indstate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=64&poid=11212&returnto=3743 minor], [https://catalog.indstate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=64&poid=11185&returnto=3743 certificate], [https://catalog.indstate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=64&poid=11468&returnto=3743 teaching minor]), ([https://catalog.indstate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=65&poid=11704&returnto=3879 MS], [https://catalog.indstate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=64&poid=11965&returnto=3743 4+1 MS]) |
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| [https://kinnejeff.com Jeff Kinne], [http://mailto:jkinne@indstate.edu jkinne@indstate.edu] <br> | | '''Advising''' - [[Undergraduate Advising]], [[Graduate Advising]], [[Courses]] ( [https://cs.indstate.edu/info/course_schedule.php class schedule], [https://catalog.indstate.edu/content.php?filter%5B27%5D=CS&filter%5B29%5D=&filter%5Bkeyword%5D=&filter%5B32%5D=1&filter%5Bcpage%5D=1&cur_cat_oid=64&expand=&navoid=3744&search_database=Filter#acalog_template_course_filter ugrad courses], [https://catalog.indstate.edu/content.php?filter%5B27%5D=CS&filter%5B29%5D=&filter%5Bkeyword%5D=&filter%5B32%5D=1&filter%5Bcpage%5D=1&cur_cat_oid=65&expand=&navoid=3880&search_database=Filter#acalog_template_course_filter grad courses]) |
| ''Office:'' Myers Technology Center (TC) 301D and in Microsoft Teams, phone 812-237-3394 <br>
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| ''Instructor Office Hours:'' normally in my office - MW 10:30-1pm, R 9-11am, 12:30-3pm, F 9am-3pm; normally available for online meetings - MTWRF 8am-4pm, SMTWR 8-10pm if I am not in class or a meeting<br>
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| ''Meeting:'' https://cs.indstate.edu/jkinne-meeting
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| '''Graduate assistant help''' - TBD. See https://cs.indstate.edu/web/index.php/ISU_CS_People#CS_Departmental_Graduate_Assistants
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| '''Lecture, Exam'''
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| | * [[Programming Practice]] |
| | * [[Project Contest]] |
| | * [[Project Requests]] |
| | * [[Giving]] |
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| | * Events - [[Science Bowl]], [https://www.indstate.edu/cas/chem_phys/summer-undergraduate-research-experiences-sure-program SURE], [[Museum]], [[Seminar]] |
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| | Pages that are old and no longer current - [https://cs.indstate.edu/info/cs-homeroom.html IndianaComputes], [http://www.indstate.edu/cas/bd4isu BD4ISU], [http://cs.indstate.edu/acm/ ACM], [https://cs.indstate.edu/info/research.html Research], [https://cs.indstate.edu/acm/contests.html programming contests] |
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| ''Lecture:'' MW 1-2:50pm in Myers Technology Center (TC) 305, over Zoom (link in Canvas, see below), and recorded<br>
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| ''Exams:'' every three weeks on Wednesdays (Sep 3, Sep 24, Oct 15, Nov 5) during lecture time (1-2:50pm). ''(For those with another class at that time, we will arrange the time after the term starts.)''<br>
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| ''Final exam:'' We have two exam slots that we will likely use for project presentations: Monday Dec 8, 3-4:50pm and Wednesday Dec 10, 1-2:50pm. ''(For those with another class at this time, your exam time will be decided after the term starts.)''<br>
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| '''Prerequisites''' - Junior or senior standing. For those that graduate in the spring, you take ECT 437 in the preceding fall; for those who graduate in a fall semester, you take ECT 437 the previous fall (so that you can take ECT 438 in your last spring term).
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| '''CRN numbers''' - 52937 (ECT 437-003), 50953 (ECT 437-301).
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| '''Required text'''
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| For the project management content of the course, we will the the following.
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| * [https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management Coursera Google Project Management] - should be free to take online, and can get certificate with ISU's Coursera license this term.
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| * Free online - [https://opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement/ Project Management – 2nd Edition] by Adrienne Watt.
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| * Information technology Project Management by Schwalbe (maybe not free).
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| Note that the other sections of the course use the following textbook. This is not required for Jeff Kinne's sections of the course.
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| * [https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/project-management-for-engineering-and-technology/P200000001110/9780132817523?srsltid=AfmBOorbY72RPx2VISEBqx9WhJLN3_N5KnkwO2Q-OzlVwimjnNKmgcce Project Management for Engineering and Technology] by David L. Goetsch.
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| '''Software/Programs'''
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| * TBA
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| '''Class notes''' - Notes during class will mostly be kept in the documents in '''[https://sycamoresindstate-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/jeffrey_kinne_indstate_edu/EiJJbQVND3FMr25IAoHydnUBADrC7z-tZH_OTaD1h_A8Ow this OneDrive folder]'''. Note that you will need to authenticate with your ISU account to view the folder. Some files from lecture may be kept at https://cs.indstate.edu/~cs473/ which can also be seen when you are logged into the terminal by doing: <code>cd ~cs473/public_html/</code>.
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| =Announcements/Assignments/Quizzes/Exams=
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| '''HW'''
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| These are posted in Canvas or on the CS server. Some HWs are due the next lecture day, some are due a week after assigned. All times are Eastern US time.
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| '''Rules'''
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| Rules for HWs, quizzes, exams are in the course policies below.
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| '''Announcements'''
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| Announcements will normally be posted to the course in Canvas (and will probably be emailed to your ISU email address if you have the default settings for notifications in Canvas).
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| =Course Description and Content=
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| '''Course Description'''
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| The official description of this course from the catalog is
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| "Evaluation of control computers in an industrial environment; the direct and indirect cost trade-off of implementing a hardwired vs. a programmed controller. The effect of management decisions on industrial computer applications. Economics of open and closed systems, software vs. hardware, in-house vs. contract maintenance, and multi-vendor vs. single vendor systems."
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| Since these are the sections of the course for CS majors, we will be focusing our discussions and projects on software management and development. We may have some groups that work together with students in the other sections of the course if there are projects that make sense for this to happen.
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| '''Course Outline'''
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| This course outline is subject to change.
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| Unit 1 Project Management
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| Unit 2 Projects
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| Note that we will be working through both units at the same time (we will be doing "textbook" style material and getting to work on projects simultaneously).
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| '''Learning Outcomes'''
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| # Demonstrate proficiency in the correct usage of PM and technical terminology.
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| # Explain PM concepts of scope, schedule, resources, constraints, risks, and closure and apply this information to the semester project.
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| # Explain the research approach for analyzing the project details for design.
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| # Demonstrate skills for project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure.
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| # Demonstrate ability in written, oral, and graphical communication in well-defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.
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| # Demonstrate communication skills for change, diversity, and adversity.
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| # Demonstrate an ability to function effectively as a member as well as a leader on technical teams.
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| =Assignments=
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| '''Start Assignments and Exam Studying Early''' -
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| I suggest attempting an assignment the day it is given, or the day after, so that if you have a problem you can ask early. If you continue to have problems in trying to complete the assignment, you will have time to ask again. Many of the assignments require thought and problem solving, which takes "time on the calendar" not just "time on the clock". By that I mean that spending an hour on 3 consecutive days is likely to be more productive than trying to spend 3 hours at once on the assignment.
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| '''Expected Amount of Work''' -
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| If you take this class seriously and get what you should out of it, some weeks you will likely be spending around '''6-10 hours or more''' on the class. The students who get A’s in their CS courses and have an easier time finding jobs do spend this much time on this course. Not everyone would need to spend this much time and not all weeks will be the same, but you should plan on putting in whatever time it takes. Note that the federal government definition of 1 credit hour as requiring 2 hours worth of time on the course for each credit hour of lecture, so you should think of this as the default for all of your courses.
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| '''Note - your classes in your major should ideally be more important than your part-time job.'''
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| '''Each week''', you will normally have at least one assignment, often more than one (in particular at the beginning when the assignments are pretty small).
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| =Grade Meanings=
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| The letter grades are intended to have the following rough meaning. For letter grades I will use the usual breakdown as a starting point (90 is A-, 80 is B-, etc.), but will raise letter grades above this if I think it is needed (e.g., if assignments, exams, and quizzes are really tough).
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| * A+/A: You understand everything and probably could teach the course yourself.
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| * B+/A-: You understand nearly everything, and should be all set to use this knowledge in other courses or in a job.
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| * C/C+/B-/B: Some things you understand very well and others you don't (more towards the former for a B and more towards the latter for a C).
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| * D-/D+/C-: You did put some effort in, and understand many things at a high level, but you haven't mastered the details well enough to be able to use this knowledge in the future.
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| * F: Normally, students that get an F simply stopped doing the required work at some point, or cheated on something in the course.
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