Transcript College of Computing Sciences Report to Board of Overseers

College of Computing Sciences
Senior Project Capstone Courses
Prepared by
Osama Eljabiri
Director of
Senior Project Capstone Courses
Presented to
Introduction Class Session (Spring 2006)
Introductory Clip
One success story in a minute
Your Course
 In 2002 the College of Computing Sciences at NJIT
introduced a completely new designed senior project Capstone
course, utilizing projects from industry, faculty and students as
the basis for team-oriented projects.
 In these projects, student teams analyze, diagnose and model
system requirements to produce well-engineered and welldocumented software products.
 The regular 491 or 492 course is offered as a one semester
and may be extended to two-semester program during the Fall,
Spring and Summer semesters.
 This course is intended to provide senior Computer Science,
Information systems and information technology majors real
world experience in software engineering and interdisciplinary
problem solving prior to graduation.
 This course is team-based in which project mangers and team
members are carefully and collaboratively selected to suit the
task at hand.
 Course director/instructor solicit a revised selection of industry
and real world projects from a broad array of sponsors.
Your Schedule
 Class meetings every week until the Spring
break (as scheduled).
(training and presentations)
 Teams to present after each Sprint
(5 sprints including the final presentation)
 After Spring break, teams use class location
and time for their meetings.
 Review Master Calendar in excel format at
our course homepage at:
www.eljabiri.com
 Our online calendar is available at :
http://calendar.yahoo.com/eljabiri2
Date
Topic
What to do?
What to submit?
What to
Present?
1-- Course Introduction
2-- Project Database
3- The Software
Engineering process
1- Sponsors
Presentations
2- Team Composition
progresses
-Browse ideas
-Add ideas
-Apply for PM
Professional WEBCT
Introduction
(Due Friday Jan 20th
Midnight)
None
Week 1
1/17/ 06
1/18/ 06
Week 2
1/24/ 06
1/25/ 06
- Select a project or
team
-Apply for a job
code in a team
Week 3
1/31/ 06
2/1/ 06
1- Finalizing Teams
2- Project Management
Discussion
Participate in
discussion
Week 4
2/7/ 06
2/8/ 06
Week 5
2/14/ 06
2/15/ 06
Requirements
Engineering Discussion
Sprint (1) starts
Participate in
discussion
Participate in
discussion
Week 6
2/21/ 06
2/22/ 06
First Sprint
Presentation
Week 7
2/28/ 06
3/1/ 06
Presentation Skills
Week 8
3/7/06
3/8//06
Second Sprint
Presentation
Week 9
3/21/06
3/22//06
Project work in-team ,
No regular classes
Week 10
3/28/ 06
3/29//06
Project work in-team ,
No regular classes
Week 11
4/4/ 06
4/ 5/06
Project work in-team ,
No regular classes
Week 12
4/ 11/ 06
4/ 12 /06
Project work in-team,
No regular classes
Week 13
4/ 18/ 06
4/ 19 /06
Project work in-team,
No regular classes
Week 14
4 / 25 / 06
4 / 26 / 06
4 / 28 / 06
Software Architecture
Discussion
Final Presentation
Capstone Showcase
-Apply for a group
position
- Reserve a project idea
(only PM)
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
Submit deliverables
/ present them
With Prototype 1
Sprint (2) starts
Participate in
discussion
Please see project
deliverables in the next
table
First
Presentation
(10 M)
Submit deliverables
and present them
With Prototype 2
Sprint (3) starts
Participate ,
contribute ,and
revise
Please see project
deliverables in the next
table.
Second
Presentation
(10 M)
Participate ,
contribute ,and
revise
Sprint (4) starts
Participate ,
contribute ,and
revise
None
Participate ,
contribute ,and
revise
Sprint (5) starts
Participate,
contribute, and
revise
Submit deliverables
and present them
With Final Software
Release
None
None
-Full documentation
-Software Product
All on one CD
Big Exhibit
Final Project
Presentation
( 15 minutes)
Day Long
Your Resources
 Course Information:
www.eljabiri.com
 Course Communication and Evaluation:
http://webct.njit.edu
FAQ’s:
http://www.eljabiri.com/id32.html
Samples and Examples:
http://www.eljabiri.com/id24.html
Software Engineering Lectures:
http://www.cis.njit.edu/~osama/generallecture_notes.htm
Your Textbook
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None and Every thing
No special book is required to buy
Use all previous books from other courses relevant to the task at hand
For the software engineering process, recommended references are:
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Modern Systems Analysis and Design by Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Joey F.
George and Joseph S. Valacich, Third edition, Addison Wesley (ISBN:
0-13-033990-3).
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Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, Second Edition by Shari
Lawrence Pfleeger . Find book resources and online lecture notes at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/pfleeger/chapter0/deluxe.html
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Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, Pressman, McGrawHill, Fifth Edition, 2001.Find book resources and online lecture notes
at:
http://eljabiri.pageout.net/page.dyn/student/course/syllabus?c
ourse_id=76000
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More good books and references in software engineering can be
found at the following URL:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~tomg/seyp/books/index.html
Course Tools
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Visio
SPSS (for research track)
PhP/Mysql
ASP.NET
Camtesia (for presentations)
Course Events
Five Teams Presentations (including
final presentation with a panel of
judges)
Jan 30th OWASP
NJIT Open House
 CCS Career Day
Capstone Showcase April 28th
Course Additional Training
Project Managers Workshop (TBA)
Jan 30th Open University Opening
(including a mini career fair and PhP)
Open University Every Wednesday
from 4-6PM starting from Feb 8th
(First Three meetings: Php/MySQL covered
in three sessions)
Hands-On training in our laps (TBA)
Your Evaluation -1 Final project Report CD (150 points)
 Midterm Project Report CD by the second Sprint
presentation [includes sprint 1 & 2] (70 points)
 Progress reports (100 points)
 Introduce yourself assignment (on-time) (30 points)
 Capstone Showcase (100 points)
 Sponsor evaluation form (250 points)
 Class attendance [Total 100 points] but deductions may exceed
100 if very poor attendance occurred.
[INCLUDING (-20 POINTS for every class you missed without a
documented permission, -50 points for missing last class)]
 Class/Online participation (50 points)
 All thee presentations (including 60 points for Final presentation)
(150 points)
 Sponsor evaluation form , final deliverables/presentations ,
final progress reports , final short exam and attendance are
CRUCIAL VARIABLES that can give extra push UP/DOWN.
 This is your 1000 points (you need 900 for an A , 850 for B+ ,
800 for a B, 750 for a C+ , 700 for a C, 600-699 is a D , and below
600 is an F).
Your Evaluation -2 However , you will also notice on WEBCT
plenty of extra credit opportunities as well
(including project implementation or coding ,
project assessment extra credits , on-time video
reviews extra credits , class participation extra
credits , etc.).Some times your extra credits will
be included in your original grade if the grade
was above the highest score.
Course Rules and Policies
 Free riders DO NOT QUALIFY for GROUP GRADES .Their
grades will be based on their percentage of contributions
according to deliverables, PM progress reports and sponsor
evaluation forms.
 If a free rider was identified before the spring break and did not
improve after three attempts, the PM has th right to fire him/her.
 If the PM was irresponsible, the team has the right to change
him/her.
 If a student has very low or no participation in-project , in-team
and in-class, he /she may not get a passing grade.
 You can only join a team in the section you are attending. You
cannot be attending a section and join a team in another one.
 Only project managers can reserve a project. They have
 Deductions start to apply after missing deadlines
 Attendance is required in all classes. You are responsible for
signing the attendance sheet every time.
 Attendance is for the entire class. Partial attendance is not
accepted.
 Laptops are only allowed in presentation sessions. They are not
allowed in other regular classes.
 Listening in class is required for any team, guest, student or
instructor.
 You are responsible for all the information and instructions
posted on our class website
Your Instructor
Biographical Sketch
Publications
How to contact me?
Osama Eljabiri
Lecturer and Director of Capstone Courses
Room 2315 A - GITC Building
College of Computing Sciences @ NJIT
University Heights - Newark , NJ 07102
Tel: (973) 642-7123
Cell: (973) 981-1049
Email : [email protected]
URL:
http://www.eljabiri.com
Calendar: http://calendar.yahoo.com/eljabiri2
Instant Messenger: eljabiri2 (Yahoo)
Office Hours
 Normal Office Hours (unless otherwise
updated below )
 Spring 2006 Regular Office Hours
Thursdays 3:30 -5:30 PM
 Class-based extended help hours: 15
Minutes before most classes and up to one
hour after most night classes (when
available).
 Walk-ins are welcome any time based on
availability.
 Online and in-class help hours are always
available
 Online office hours: Online assistance and
orientation are available via email, webct,
chatting, etc. (whenever possible)
Course Procedures
 This semester teams are 4-5 people each
 What projects are available?
 How to reserve a project?
 How to be a PM?
 How to form a team?
 How to join a team?
 How to declare a team?
 What to submit? What to present?
 When to submit? When to present?
We are looking for good PM’s?
 Deadline is this Friday
 Interviews are Thursday 3:30-5:30 and Friday 2-5PM (please confirm if
you have applied).
 We need (6-7) in 002, (8-10) in 102 and (7-8) in 104.
 It is an extra responsibility but also an extra reward
 You need to apply online
 You need to be a leader not only an administrator
 Background, knowledge and experience are very helpful but dedication
is more important.
 You need to respect and help your team members
 You need to be an excellent communicator
 You need to respect your project stakeholders and work closely and
intensively with them
 You need to communicate with your instructor frequently
 You need to read instructions carefully and apply them precisely
 You need to be a role model in your team, the first who attend and the
last who leaves!
 You need to manage risk, change and be patient
 You need to be available
 PM workshop On Feb 1st 4-6PM in GITC 1100
Our Selected Projects
for
Spring 2006?
NO
Sponsor
Contact Name
Project Title
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Suspense Tracking System
Software Quality Assurance Tool Assessment
Software Quality Assessment Video Presentation
1
Department of Army (3 Projects)
C4ISR - SEC – ITED
Dominic Motolla
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2
Edentify, Inc. (Project 1)
Terrence Defranco
Advanced Reporting Module
3
Monmouth County Friends of
Clearwater, Inc.
Edward Dlugosz
Electronic Traveling Environmental Festival (eTEF)
4
Morphos Financial LLC (Project 1)
Enrique Nunez
Test Environment Infrastructure
5
Career Development Services
@NJIT
Greg Mass
Online Career Development System
6
Johnson and Johnson
Ketul Patel
Global Supply Chain Management System
7
IMS Health
Gail Pecota
Data Variation Tag Database
8
Homeland Security Technology
Center @ NJIT
Bill Marshall
Emergency Preparedness System
9
Orthotic Enterprises, LLC.
Frank Ferrari
Reinventing Orthotics
10
Rational Solutions Corp
(R.I.M.S)
Milind Shah
Brand Recognition Solution
11
Edentify, Inc. (Project 2)
Terrence Defranco
Name Parsing Routine
12
Edentify, Inc. (Project 3)
Terrence Defranco
Advanced Screening Results Extract
13
Turnkey Properties
Graciela Diaz
Vacation Rentals e-Commerce Site (RESERVED)
Edward Madara
14
Saint Clare's Health
Services
NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouse WEBSITE
Shannon Doherty
15
Doherty Enterprises, Inc
16
Schmitt & Associates
17
GardenStateApartments.co
m (Project 1)
18
Morphos Financial LLC
(Project 2)
Doherty Office Resource Center
Sylvia Riben
Schmitt & Associates Intranet Development
Sunny Kancherla
University Housing Interface for a Website
Enrique Nunez
Financial Data Infrastructure
Geri Dickson
19
Collaborating Center for
Nursing
Integrated Competency-Based Web Model
Andrew Nunez
20
NexTec Group, Inc.
eTimesheets ASP.net
Peggy McHale
21
Consultants 2 Go
Recruiter Database
Bruce Johnson
22
One Moon Scientific, Inc.
23
ATIDO
AniTables, A Java tool to display tabular data.
William Fisher
Event Marketing and Management Website
Laszlo Laskai
24
UV Electric
25
Morphos Financial LLC (Project 3)
Enterprise Resource Management
Enrique Nunez
Information Security and Assurance
Clarisa Gonzalez
26
Graduate Studies Office -- NJIT
27
Civic Engagement Computing Center
28
Audio Browser Group
29
LMI Technologies
Graduate Studies Office Automation Initiative
John Crepezzi
Secure Online Transaction Systems
Daniel
Rodriguez
Web Presence Development
Cho Li
Self-Optimizing Teaching System for 2006
Sunny Kancherla
30
GardenStateApartments.com (Project 2)
New Jersey Housing Map Painter
Why our project courses?
Students experience with traditional courses:
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Boring classes
- Lack of engagement
- Lack of motivation
- Lack of variety
- Exam and traditional homework pressure
Ineffective education
- No connection to real world
- No practice
- One source for information
Limited timeframes
- 12 weeks are too short with all other parallel responsibilities
- Learning opportunities are limited to class meetings and text
book
- No opportunity to jump start
- No post course follow up
A huge investment with unpredictable return
- No matter what you accomplish, no one knows about you
- You cannot grow after class because it is over
- No job opportunities
- You cannot form your own business
Why this course is different?
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Students are very engaged!
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They are producers of real value and
NOT only audience and exam takers
(Project Deliverables).
They are teachers of collective
knowledge. They act as live résumés
throughout the semester (Presentations
and Showcases).
Classes are interactive and they offer a
variety of learning methods.
All of this is in real world projects, with
real world stakeholders and within real
world environments!
Why this course is different?
Students learn by more than just
listening
 They
learn by doing
 They learn by collaborating
 They learn by communicating
 They learn by market-driven training
Why this course is different?
This is not an internship program!
- Students view sponsors as
educators (not employers).
- sponsors view students as partners
and collaborators (not employees).
Why this course is different?
- Students are in charge!
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Students select their projects
Students select their teams
Students become project managers
and lead their teams and projects
Students fire free riders even if they
were their project managers
Students administer many activities
and roles
Why this course is different?
Students learn how to be global (not a
single project) problem solvers!
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They learn problem solving strategies in class
sessions.
 They use their projects as tools to learn about
problem solving in general so they can solve
other kinds of problems.
 Simply put, we bring a “problem solving package”
to our sponsors not a “number” of “interns”.
Why this course is different?
- Students are trained on what
they need to know not what they
have to know
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Class sessions are about today and
tomorrow not about out-dated techniques
and strategies.
Open university sessions and hands-on laps
provide on-demand training free of charge
for you, your family, friends and sponsors.
You can even be a teacher!
Why this course is different?
- Our course opportunities start very
early and never stop during class,
after class or graduation.
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Early bird and Pioneers.
I love to hear your questions, I love to see you in my
office, I love to hear your voice, I love to be able to
help you in every way possible.
Open help any time any where.
Virtual Web-based collaboration.
Continuous collaboration after class in various ways
Job opportunities (part time, full time and fully-paid
internships).
We will always support our good students
Why this course is different?
Course that can be customized
and personalized!
- Project work progresses in an evolutionary
prototyping fashion (Time Boxing).
- Teams are adaptive to customer requirements,
responsive to change, dynamic and flexible.
- You select your project, your role and your team
- You select to do technical development,
research or even become an entrepreneur.
Why this course is different?
Collective Intelligence
 Interdisciplinary
teams from five
university colleges
 Undergraduate /Graduate
collaboration
 High school / College collaboration
 Large advisory community among
sponsors, faculty, administrators and
students.
Why this course is different?
- Classes can be fun!
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We creating friendly collaborative
environments
Do what you like to do most
Learn from friends what you cannot do
Interactive classes
Competitions boast motivation
Movies, games, music, off-campus
activities, presentation parties,
showcases, press, rewards and more!
The Triple Win
Multi-Stakeholder Satisfaction Triangle
STUDENTS
Senior
Project
Capstone
Course
SPONSORS
COLLEGE
Position
Cod
e
Job Description/responsibilities
Qualifications
Project manager
In addition to managing the team, project
managers will be responsible for project
management deliverables including
feasibility study.
Should use project management tool (Microsoft
Project Manager) to plan project tasks,
allocate and mange resources, assign
team members to complete tasks,
compile team members' weekly time
sheets, report task completion and actual
hours worked on tasks, prepare periodic
reports on project progress. Receives
extra credit when successful.
In addition to the criteria stated in
the previous section,
background in software
economics, process life cycle
models and project
management techniques is
essential.
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System Analyst
System analysts will be responsible for
requirements gathering and
documentation
(Problem definition, requirements report,
DFD’s, process specifications, data
dictionary , etc) and coordinating with
other team members.
Experience/ background in
requirements analysis,
requirements elicitation
techniques, and project
documentation.
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Back-end
designer
Responsible for designing the backend of the
system including data structures, entity
relation ship models normalization, SQL,
normalization, system structure and other
architectural models (repository , clientserver, abstract machine model , objectoriented design in UML ,etc.)
Experience/ background in DBMS,
CASE tools and modeling
techniques in software
engineering.
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Position
0301
Data Base
Designer
0302 Network
Designer
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Front-end designer
Responsible for designing the user interface for
users (including GUI components , forms
, reports , navigation , etc.
Experience/ background in HCI ,
cognitive psychology , user
interface design, user
manuals
05
Programmer
Implementing the system at the unit level and
system level. Testing and Maintaining
the system Writing user manual .
Experience in web programming
and other programming such
as C++ , Visual Basic , Java,
and the like)
Projects Success Rate
Rated by Sponsors
In the last 70 projects we did:
 81%
were rated between good and
excellent
 40% were rated as outstanding
 9 projects were rated average and
only 4 were below average
Testimonials
(Silent Reading)
Testimonials
“We have 50 NJIT student interns who
are studying information technology and
computer science, working on eight
projects. Having them work for us has
allowed us to jump ahead in our work.”
Larry Gardner
CEO and Founder of Cyberextruder
Testimonials
This was a huge project and required
much attention to detail. The team
asked the right questions and we very
helpful to Arc of Monmouth staff in
deciphering what needed to be done.
They provided many useful suggestions.
Sarah Logan
Office Manager
The Arc of Monmouth
Testimonials
I was so impressed with the whole process. I am
amazed at how talented, professional and responsive the
team was to the project. The group of students that
worked on this project quickly understood the scope and
was able to deliver the requested tool within a very short
period of time. The entire experience was one that I am
going to recommend to other managers at IMS.
Marilyn Mahon
Group Manager, Quality Assurance
IMS Health
100 Campus Road
Totowa, NJ 07512 USA
Testimonials
“If I had to pay a consultant to do the work that the NJIT
students did for CIT as part of the Capstone Program it
would have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars”
“The program gives NJIT students a chance to integrate real
world experience into their academic experience, which is
invaluable to them and to us.”
Harold Olmstead
Vice president of Systems and Technology Services
CIT
Testimonials
“The solution for Cocomats created by
the group reflected a keen assessment
of both the weaknesses of Cocomats
and the needs of the Office of
Constituent relations “
Ian Thomas Brennan
New Jersey Office of the Governor,
Office of Constituent Relations
Aide to the Governor
Testimonials
This group was very prompt in
implementing suggestions, very
professional and timely. Based on
the scope of work initially developed,
we are very pleased with the results.
Juan Rosario
Newark Housing Authority
Acting I.T. Administrator
Testimonials
This group hung in there and were able to work around
these problems and move steadfastly through the project.
This group communicated well and worked very
efficiently. They were always on time for the meetings
and handled themselves in a very professional manner. I
was very impressed with the work that they did. They
fulfilled all of our needs and produced a product that is
above and beyond what we expected. Overall all I was
pleased and would look forward to participating in
upcoming projects.
Jerri Drakes
CEO
The Workstation Inc.
Testimonials
Very well diverse group of dynamic
individuals with many skills equipped to
create a website, write a business plan,
business marketing, hard working, and
capable of delivering a complete
product.
Henri Boll
President
Go2Museum.com Inc
Testimonials
As a whole the team preformed
extremely well. The direction given by
TMS was an outline. The team was able
to understand what we were looking for
and implement our needs into the
finished program.
Sean P McShane
President
Transportation Made Simple
Testimonials
Jeremy (Jeremy Dela Rosa) has been very accommodating
regarding my extremely busy schedule. He has demonstrated a
strong ability to learn and adjust throughout this experience.
Jeremy performed a terrific job in coordinating the efforts of the
team, a task that is very difficult for any leader. He was also
able to work well as a liaison between me and the team,
ensuring that my requests were communicated properly to all
the members. Additionally, as project manager, he was
involved in nearly every aspect of the project, and demonstrated
a solid understanding of every one of the team’s
Jason Huang
Project Leader
Honeywell International Inc
New Statistics
 Number of completed projects will reach at least [250] full-scale
projects
 A minimum of [300] products or sub-projects carried out by more
than 300 teams after 10 semesters
 This is an average of 30 products per semester plus CIS490 firstphase teams.
 Many of these projects have had multi-phases and some have
involved multi-teams
 Up to 6 semesters /phases for some large-scale projects. up to 4
teams in some extremely complex or demanding industry-projects
.
 Key sponsors offer more than one project every semester
(CIT provided 14 projects in Spring 2004 alone and Cyberextruder
offered 9 projects in Spring 2003 )
 At least 1500 students have participated in the capstone program
since Fall 2002 from CS , IS , IT and HCI.
More Facts
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Sponsors and projects diversity demonstrate a broad array of
interest
Examples : entertainment , finance , health , education , public sector
entrepreneurships
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Geographical Distribution :These projects came from all round
NJ (North , Central and South) , NY or PA . We even had a
project from Boston , MA . This expands our reach beyond
short-distance businesses.
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A number of companies have offered our students excellent
support for their careers .
Examples : CIT, Saint Clair health system , Edu-Global , Cyberextruder , Allfine-dining , IMS health
Support forms : Full time employment , part-time employment , internships ,
rewards , financial support , research support , recommendation letters , direct
support calls , software purchase , company resources , certified training , after
graduation training.
Added-value Community Benefits
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Sposnor-Sposnosr Collaboration
Open-house Participation
Collaboration across teams and across semesters
Non-Profit and public service projects
NJIT departments projects
Commercialization of students ideas
Students published empirical research
EDC bi-directional support