Tu, 5:00pm, EGR 1108 (This
may change- watch for announcements!)
1) To learn about a variety
of advanced topics in compilers and computer architecture for microprocessors
and embedded systems
2) To learn to research and
present technical information.
The computer engineering seminar
is a 1-credit course. It is not a free credit, as some students believe.
Rather, you can expect to do about one third the amount of work as compared
to a 3-credit course.
Each student will have the
following tasks:
To accomplish the above, each
student will be required to select one topic to research and present, from
the list provided on the first day of class. One or two (or three, if the
enrollment increases) students will then be assigned to lead each topic,
with one seminar week dedicated to that topic.
10 days prior to leading a
topic, the students presenting it must send me the names of atleast two
papers (one main paper, plus another) that will be the focus of discussion
(Look at instructions on the class home). Copies of these papers will be
distributed in class one week before the topic is covered, or if an online
version is available, the students should print out the paper from the
web. During the seminar period, the students will spend about 10
minutes on an overview, 30 minutes on the technical details, and 10 minutes
for questions and answers.
Before each seminar, every
student (including those presenting) will submit electronically a half-page
(approx 30-lines in ASCII) pre-seminar report that answers a few key questions
about one of the main papers that will be presented. The presenters
must write on their own main paper in this report.