Class Presentation

The purpose of your presentation is for you to become familiar with a particular topic of choice regarding embedded systems and present this topic to the class using a PowerPoint presentation. You will work with your presentation group to prepare the presentation and present this presentation together in class. It will be up to you to determine how to organize the presentation so that all group members get roughly an equal amount of presentation time.

In this course, you will be required to create a presentation group. Groups must consist of exactly 2 students, except when allowed due to enrollment there may be groups of 3 or singles (first come first serve via email requests), but final approval wlll only be done after the add/drop deadline). Please stay after class the first and second days to form your groups if you do not know anyone in the class. You must submit your group requests to me via email by (see course schedule).

Presentation details

The following is a tentative plan, but may change based on the final enrollment:

Each person will have 3 presenation days, of which each presentation will be on a different topic. For each long presentation day (2 total), you will present 2 on papers for 40 minutes + 5-10 minutes for questions. The two papers must be logically related but may not be a conference paper and the associated journal paper. For the short presentation day, you will present 1 paper for 20 muntes + 5-10 minutes for questions. I would expect a good presentation to include enough background information (so you may need to do more background research) so that the audience can understand the purpose of the topic. You will also need to cover the details involved in each paper.

You will need to select 3 topics from the topic list, designating which will be your short topic and which will be your long topics. There is a set amount of presentations slots for each topic so it will be on a first come first serve basis. You must submit your topic choices to me via email by (see course schedule). Presentations will begin on (see course schedule). The order in which the topics are listed below represents the order in which you will present. Therefore, if you chose topic 1, you will present early. There are 9 topics and roughly 12 presentation weeks, so there is no definite mapping of topic to week yet, since midterms will be added to the schedule as well. But you can get an idea of the basic timing of your talk with repect to the course progression.

When you prepare your slides, make sure you include the authors names and affiliations, publications details (where and when), and number the slides in the format of X of Y where X is the current slide number and Y is the total number of slides.

No research is ever complete, nor is any research flawless. Therefore, the last slide of your presentation MUST identify questions, shortfalls, and or disadvantages of the papers' works.
After you chose your topics, you will need to find relevent papers to present on that topic. I will not choose the papers for you, but I will need to approve them. The following is a list of some of the top embedded systems conferences. You can find the websites for past offerings of these conferences and look through the conference proceedings to indentify papers of interest. If you find 1 paper that is interesting and are having trouble finding related papers on that topic, you can always look at the related work section of that paper and choose a referenced paper. Here is a list of appropriate conferences, however, some of these conferences include other topics as well as embedded systems. Try and stick within the embedded systems papers. When you submit your papers, you must also give a short explanation of how the papers are related for the long presentation days and give the complete paper citations. Please give me a direct link to the PDF online or attach the PDF of the papers to the email.
You may also find papers in journals, but since the computer science-based journal review process can take a long time, the papers might not be as cutting-edge as you would find in conferences
Google Scholar and Citeseer are also good locations to find papers.

Embedded System Topics

You will need to chose two topics from the list below.

Deliverables

You will need to have your papers submitted at least two weeks before your presentation date, however, if they are no approved you will have additional time. Also, if you select papers that later you decide are not good presentation papers, you may change your papers with good reason. Please email me your selected papers. I will not be reminding you, so make sure you keep track of the timing.

On the day before your presentation, you will need to email me your slides as well as a list of possible test questions and answers, a minimum of 3 per paper. These questions are PER PERSON, not PER PAPER. I have two reasons for these questions. The first is that it requires you to think about your papers at a different level. And second, I will draw on these questions when creating the midterms so keep that in mind when you create these questions. Remember, you want them to be fairly high level and not focused on details but you don't want them to be too trivial. A portion of your grade will be based on the quality of these questions and how well they are covered in your presentation

Grading Scale

You will be graded on several criteria:

Class Participation

The in class participation portion of your grade will be based on the questions you ask during class. I will keep track of the students that participate each day and this will go towards your final class presentation grade. I can't give you a hard number on the number of questions you must ask, but I monitor the participation throughout the semester and I will give you feedback on whether or not you need more. In the past, to attain 100% of the presentaton points, you must have participated on 90% of the days, but this varies based on enrollment and timing.