Final Individual Report - due 25 Apr

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Overview
Research experience consistently emerges as a top criterion for employment in competitive positions and for admission into graduate school. But gaining research experience is largely dependent on your own initiative. The benefits of student research boil down to two dimensions. The first might be labeled “specific skills,” including developing research ideas, conducting literature searches, analyzing data, using statistical procedures, preparing conference presentations, and improving writing ability. The second dimension might be named “interpersonal goals.” These entail effective communication, enhanced subject knowledge, and developed leadership. You should seek both types of benefits in securing a research experience as an undergraduate.

This course will give you an opportunity to experience research in a “light form” by requiring you to create an infographic instead of a research paper on a software engineering topic of interest that is covered in this course. Infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.

See the assignment on the class page in Canvas.