DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DATE INFORMATION
FOR
COURSES ECSE 474, -475, -476, -477, -498, -499
Design Projects, Thesis I, Thesis II
Fall Semester 200909
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General Meeting: ECSE 474, 476 2009-SEP-10, Thursday, Time 14:35-15:55, room TR 2100.
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Initial Information Gathering: 474 and 476 students will receive a group registration form via email
which must be returned, at the latest, by 1600, 2009-SEP-18, to K. Fraser by email. ALL of the members
of each project group should present ONE form together and this form must contain the title, short Project
Description and the project supervisor(s) name(s) and email address(es).
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Continuing ECSE 475 and 477 project groups: must email their current project title, description and
supervisor’s name to K. Fraser ken.fraser@mcgill.ca by 1600, 2009-SEP-18 to register (NO HTML and
NO ATTACHMENTS).
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498 AND 499 STUDENTS must email their current thesis information to K. Fraser ken.fraser@mcgill.ca
by 1600, 2009-SEP-18, (include; Title, Current Thesis objectives, email addresses [local] and thesis
supervisor{s}). NO ATTACHMENTS or HTML i.e., no FORMATTING please!!! The general info for
these courses is on the ECE WEB pages under courses.
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Selection of Oral Time Slot (IN PERSON – one group member only) room ENGMC 531: ECSE475,
477, and 499 groups 2009-NOV-03, Tuesday, 1305-1535. For ECSE474, 476 and 498 groups, 2009NOV-04, Wednesday will be the selection time 1305-1535. IN GENERAL, the 475/477/499 groups will
be assigned to the second week of the oral schedule while the 474/476/498 groups will use the first week.
First-come-first-served! Allow about 5 minutes for data entry for each group. Please have at least three
possible choices on hand THAT HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED with your supervisor(s). The schedule will be
emailed prior to this date ALL in EXCEL 2003 format. PLEASE WAIT IN THE 5th FLOOR ELEVATOR
LOBBY in order to minimize the noise to the occupants of the South wing of the 5th floor McConnell.
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Oral Abstract Due: ALL groups 2009-NOV-06, Friday, by 1600 email to K. Fraser in plain ASCII text
without formatting (NO WORDPROCESSING), (NO HTML) and NO ATTACHMENTS. Include Title,
Abstract (one short paragraph), speakers' names, email addresses, supervisor(s) names and those other
staff and/or graduate students who have acted as consultants you may wish to invite (keep it down to one
or two in addition to your supervisor(s)).
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Oral Period: ALL groups 2009-NOV-16 to 2009-NOV-27 (PM only). This may change if the total
enrolment requires extra time. The presentation room is TR 4104. The full EXCEL schedule plus
abstracts will be emailed to all concerned with these courses before the oral period. PLEASE NOTE the
requirement to attend some of the other presentations (of your choice) in addition to your own.
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All Reports Due/End-Of-Term: ALL groups 2009-DEC-07 at the latest by 1600. TWO bound hard
copies must be delivered to your supervisor(s) for 475, 477, 498 and 499. For 474, 476 an emailed
softcopy to the supervisor is sufficient. Email Ken Fraser acknowledging the submission. CDs must
be prepared containing ALL the documentation from the projects/thesis for the supervisor(s) and
yourselves. The stored documentation will come in handy for CVs later or just general nostalgia when the
hard copy is lost. Please pay attention to proper binders . Two hole DUO-TANGs (transparent plastic front
cover is the best) are most efficient AND recyclable! Plastic splines disintegrate and material cannot be
easily inserted and along with thermal binding, loose-leaf and unbound reports are considered
unacceptable. K. Fraser (ENGMC 531) has, on hand, a limited supply of free DUO-TANGs for recycling!
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