CSCI-Y 794 Master’s Project
1-6 credits
- Prerequisite(s): None
- Delivery: On-Campus
Description
This course enables students to apply advanced computer science skills to a capstone project. Students design, develop, and test solutions to real-world problems, culminating in a report and presentation. Projects may involve industry collaboration or faculty mentorship, emphasizing innovation and professional practices.
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate the literature critically, interpreting computer science contributions, deficiencies, and theories for the project research problem, aims, questions or hypotheses, and methods.CS 7
- Assess the research designs of published research articles in computer science.CS 7
- Formulate specific research aims, questions, or hypotheses within a topic area of computer science.CS 7
- Determine appropriate research methods to answer particular research questions, test hypotheses, or evaluate algorithms or systems.CS 7
- Analyze data using appropriate quantitative methods.CS 4
- Critique peers’ research designs and provide generative feedback.CS 7
- Design, develop, and write a research project proposal and defend it before a research committee.CS 7
- Execute the research proposal, developing a system and/or collecting data, based on the research plan, and abiding by ethical standards for conducting research.CS 6
- Write a project report and defend it before a research committee.CS 7
Policies and Procedures
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