Some Suggested Topics

• Design and implement a new traffic monitoring tool for OpenFlow Networks

• Design and implement a method for using a smart phone app instead of a magnetic card for building access control systems

• Managing locally-assigned Ethernet addresses effectively
  

Other Topics for Lecture/Discussion

1. Professional Ethics (Here is your homework assignment on this topic -- due May 7,2014)
   
• IEEE Code of Ethics
• ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and also for Software Engineering
• International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIP)
• Course website with a world-wide collection
2. Giving oral presentations to a variety of audiences
• Before the end of the quarter, each student will need to give a short oral presentation (3 - 5 minutes) about your project. This is an individual assignment, but your entire team can schedule their talks in the same session and receive feedback from the same guest critic (described below).
• Spend some time researching tips on giving good presentations. There are lots of resources on giving good talks on the web. Here are a few examples, and this handout includes some of our favorite tips.
• You will need practice your talk at least three days before the real talk. You must have at least one person not in the class attend the talk and give feedback. This could be a parent, fellow student, or friend etc. However this person should take their role very seriously. This person needs to give you written feedback (if necessary, you can transcribe their spoken feedback). You can ask them to provide at least two examples of something they liked, and two examples of something you could improve on. You will need to prove that you held this practice session. You can do this with a Youtube video, photographs, etc
• Write a 600 word essay on:
• The best tips you have found in your research (be sure to cite your sources), OR
• How helpful the practice session/feedback was, OR
• The best talk you have ever seen (in person, or on the Web/TV). Why was it so effective? What did you learn from it that was actionable?
• Hand In: You need to hand in, neatly stapled in a single document:
  
  1. Your essay.
  2. The final draft of your presentation slides (if possible, print these in 4-per-page or 6-per-page format).
  3. The feedback (original legible handwriting or retyped) you received on your practice talk.
  4. Evidence that shows you gave a practice talk, a URL to a video or photos of the event, or a document signed by at least three people, that witnessed the event and givem the time and location.
3. At the end of the quarter, each team must turn in one written Project Report document, describing the process by which they chose their topic, planned the milestones for carrying it out, divided the tasks among group members, tested and integrated the software you developed, and provided an explanation for the approach(es) you used and the outcomes you achieved. Here is a more detailed description of the Project Report.
4. Here is a very brief introduction to the Scrum software development process. It seems well suited for small team situations and avoids many of the inefficiencies of traditional project management techniques.
   
5. Here are some random examples of network related news stories
• IPv4 addressing
• The IEEE 802 University Outreach Program (UOP) was launched in 2012.  It provides a means for students and professors to acquire more knowledge about IEEE 802 Working Groups and the standards they have developed and are developing, including IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) and IEEE 802.11 (commonly known as Wi-Fi). This is a program developed by IEEE volunteers. Our goals are educational, not commercial. The program takes place during the IEEE 802 Plenary, and we want to help participants understand more about how standards are used in the workplace. The only associated costs are a minimal $25 to defray meeting expenses. The next event in this series will take place on 15 July in San Diego. Are you interested?
6. Here are the slides for Dr. Kenneth Kung's talk