Your semester project update presentations are designed to A) give the entire class a peak into what you’re up to and what methods and technologies you are working with, and B) give you a graded, deadlined waypoint to use as a guide for getting some serious work done.
They will be 10 minutes or so (no [...]
Category Archives: Semester Projects
Semester Project Update Presentations: Guidelines
Semester Project Mini Update
Consider this a stab in the back with something sharp — you should be working on solving the issues we identified in our one-on-one conferences (esp. since some of your semester projects could be obliterated if you find, for example, that your data are just not available in a format you can use).
By midnight on [...]
Semester Project Proposal Guidelines
This is your second (and final) attempt at pitching me an idea for a semester project. It is worth 50 points (which is a lot), so it should be a very complete, well-written document.
A good rule of thumb here is to pretend I’m a funding agency that may or may not invest in your project. [...]
Checklist: Round 1 of One-on-One Semester Project Conferences
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Semester Project Proposal Draft Guidelines
These are guidelines for submitting your Semester Project Proposal Draft (not the semester project proposal, which is a different document).
The idea behind this assignment is to get you thinking about your semester project and to introduce both of us to some of the issues we’ll need to sort out as you plan the work.
Because [...]
Semester Project Notes: Previous Semesters & Random Ideas for the Taking
Here is a brief list of projects that were turned in for the first iteration of this course in 2008:
Existing data on student in-field problem solving abilities were enhanced with land use/land cover and topography attributes derived from external data sources. The addition of these resources allowed the student to more richly visualize student movements [...]