Industrial Mathematics - Alexiades
Term Project
As an integrative experience in modeling, and an incentive to explore an interesting topic,
start thinking about a Term Project topic.
The idea is to start with a problem/process, develop a (simple?) model,
perform some analysis/simulation, and deduce something about the original problem.
It can be from any area of science/technology/economics/...,
from your own field, or something you find interesting and would like to explore.
After I collect the topics, I will assign you to a team (hopefully with similar interests, from different major),
and each team will work on a project together the rest of the semester.
Thus you will experience the joys (...and pains) of collaborating with others.
If you have reasons not to work with anyone, please let me know...
Each team will prepare a PROPOSAL, a REPORT, and also present their
work to the class in a 15-20 minute presentation during final exam period.
Schedule
Feb 1:
Submit at least one project topic (for creation of teams).
Feb 15: Submit a title and short description for the Team
Mar 1:
Submit a Team Proposal.
Apr 1:
Submit a rough draft of Team Report for feedback.
May 9 :
Submit the Report.
May ?? , ??
Presentation to the class
(during final exam time slot) ...then we can all go to Calhoun's...
Suggested Report Format
0. Title page
Title, team members, date, abstract.
1. Introduction
Background, issues/questions to be addressed.
2. Problem description
3. Model formulation
4. Methods
Possible approaches, methods you actually used (brief description).
5. Solution
6. Discussion
Interpretation of the solution, relevance to original questions.
7. Conclusions
8. References
Have Fun !