=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: mel siegel To: S2009-16722 Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:31:54 AM Subject: tentative schedule & assignments Files: 16722-S2009-syllabus_summary-20090202.pdf --====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----===-- S2009-16722 -- Attached is a **tentative** schedule for the rest of the semester, including my first-pass at assigning you topics for the lectures you will give -- more-or-less all of the form "practical sensors and sensor systems for XXXXX in the context of exploration robots". I have scheduled the student lectures to begin the first Monday after spring break and to continue until the last Wednesday of the semester. If the last few people would rather not present so close to the end of the semester we can do three rather than two student lectures in the weeks where Friday classes have been scheduled. The order in which I arranged your talks is determined more by my estimation -- based mostly on your class and department -- of your readiness to give a lecture sooner rather than later. Since I also took your preferences into account, this makes the order of the topics sometimes less than ideal. I think I can provide enough cohesion that the process will work fine even with a little jumping around in topic space. You have plenty of time to do a good job, but if I don't force you to begin early you will leave it until two days before your talk and then you'll come to me in a panic asking what you can do to rescue yourself. Since your lecture is less a test of you than it is an essential element of the course content for the rest of the class, this short-changes everyone else. Therefore: 1) By Friday February 13 finish all your proposed swapping of topics and dates and email me your intentions for my approval -- which I will usually give, but I reserve the right not to. 2) By Friday February 27 email me a slide set that shows me the top-level content of your proposed presentation: (1) clear indication of your topic and why it is important; (2) what institutions and labs are at the cutting-edge of research on your topic? (3) what companies supply sensors and other essential equipment for your applications? (4) identify the top-of-the-field researchers/labs and their flagship applications; (5) documented actual successes and failures; (6) directions in which improvement is expected, and why; (7) references. There will be a lot of variation, but typically this will be satisfied by seven slides titled as per (1) through (7), and on each slide 3 to 5 bullets identifying the sub-topics. We'll talk some more about this on Wednesday ... -- Mel Please respond to mws@cmu.edu no matter what the reply field says. I am now all-mobile at +1 412 983 2626. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=