SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS

APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS CET-3383

(Spring Sesssion 2000)

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

INSTRUCTOR

Name: Mr. Emil Vazquez (Prof. V)

Office: UCF Research Park

Pager No: 40-776-359-67

Office hrs: Wednesday after class and upon request

CREDITS / T IME

3 / (3)

PRE-REQUISITE

High Level Language (Pascal, C, C++, Ada, Fortran)

CLASS TIME/DAY/ACTIVITY/LOCATION

Lecture: Wednesday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm

Room 497 Research Park, UCF

TEXTBOOK / AUTHOR / PUBLISHER

Software Engineering Fundamentals / Behforooz & Hudson / Oxfor Univ. Press 96

EVALUATION CRITERIA

60 % ............................. Major Tests (3)

20 % ............................. Project, Assignments and Reports

20 % ............................. FINAL EXAM

FREE BONUS POINTS ... (to be added to one desired Major Test)

REQUIRED WORK:

Project report, MAJOR Exams, FINAL EXAM and any other task as indicated by the Instructor.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

The course is an introduction to the basic principles of Systems Engineering, the Software Cycle, and its design, development and implementation. The student will be exposed to structured and object-oriented programming. A Software Requirement Specification of a system or project will be examined and analyzed to generate the corresponding Software Design Specification, Testability and Acceptance criteria.

PROJECT REQUIREMENT

A project will be developed by the student and will be based on a Software System (to be determined). Given the Software Requirements Specification, all the Software Cycle stages will be addressed with emphasis on the design specifications, testability, and maintainability. An object-oriented programming approach will be used for Software Coding.

Week Schedule:	SUBJECTS in GENERAL	Book Section
	UNIT 1
1,2,3,4	Software Development Cycle	Chapter 1 and notes
4,5	Case Studies analyzed by students assigned as Homework Some discussion in class	Chapter 2 and notes
5,6,7	Software Technical Planning, Analysis and Design	Chapters 3 and notes
	UNIT 2
7,8	Software Analysis and Design	Chapter 4
8,9,10	Software Specification Tools and Development Environment	Chapters 5, 6
10,11,12	Software Design and Structured and Object-Oriented Programming	Chapters 7, 8
	UNITS 3 and 4
13,14	Software Testability, Maintenance and Maintainability	Chapter 13
15	Software Attributes and Metrics	Chapter 14
16	Misceallaneous and other topics as time allows	------

E X A M S

FIRST MAJOR TEST	Chapters 1, 2 and notes
SECOND MAJOR TEST	Chapters 3, 4, 5 and notes
THIRD MAJOR TEST	Chapters 6, 7
FINAL EXAM	Chapters 7, 8, 13, 14 and all chapters in part

TEST GRADING: All tests will be based on 100 points, using standard values for the grades, with no curve application; that is:

A......... 90 - 100, B....... 80 - 89.9

C......... 70 - 79.9 D....... 60 - 69.9

F......... < 60 I....... Missing requirement(s)

FREE BONUS POINTS can only be issued during class time. They are given by the Instructor during lecture time, and they are accrued during the course. These points are given in response to questions, problems, given by the Instructor in class. The Instructor will issue these points at the end of the lecture, by signing your notebook or work sheet. Instructor signature is required in order to claim these points. These points will then be counted and recorded by the end of the course.

EXEMPTION from FINAL EXAM: Students getting "A" on each and every MAJOR EXAM will be exempted from the FINAL EXAM, if all other work has been done satisfactorily, including Laboratory reports and exercises. The "A" grade is without counting the free bonus points, and all three Major Tests need to be taken.

MAKEUP Policy: No MAKEUPs will be given, unless the student informs the teacher one week and a half in advance about his or her reason for not taking the scheduled Exam. MAKEUPs are usually more difficult than regular tests due to the fact that they are given at a later time, and more material has been covered.

DETERMINING GRADE A MISSING MAJOR TEST: If one Major Test is not taken, for any reason, your grade for that test will be determined by the following formula:

G_M = G_O - (G_O * D)

i=1

D = 1 - ((S G_I/n) / 100 )

where G_M is your grade for missing Test

G_O is the lowest grade of all your Major Tests

D is the difficulty level for that test

G_I is the grade of each student for that test

n is the number of students taking that test

If above formula is used, your computed Major test grade will be less than your worst Major Test grade. Therefore it's convenient to take all Major Tests, instead of applying this formula.

Example: Suppose the difficulty level (D) of a particular test is 0.2, and the lowest grade of your other 2 major tests is 80 (G_O); then your computed grade for that missing Major test will be:

G_M = 80 - (80 * .2) = 64

GENERAL POLICY on EVALUATION - Please Read.

EFFECT ON FINAL GRADE: Should any one of required work¹, such as presentations, specific assignments, take-home problems, etc is not done, the final class average will be lowered by one grade or more.

FINAL GRADE CONSTRAINT: The class final average grade will not be more than 2 grades better than any major exam grade, no matter how well the student has done in every other major exams, or other work. However, FREE BONUS POINTS can be used to improve any desired Major test or tests.

The students have to be aware than MAJOR EXAMS are very important in determining a grade.

Ex. 1: If a student made a "D" in one major exam, and after adding free bonus points to that test he or she still made a "D" and he or she got perfect scores in the other major tests, all assignments, and reports including the final exam, etc, the final grade can only improve to a "B" even though his or her final average may yield an "A".

Ex. 2: If a student made an "F" in one major test after all free bonus points are added to that test, his or her best possible final average grade will be a "C".

LEARNING PROCESS: Be aware than learning process may be painful at times. Any "undesirable behavior"² in class by the student may be used by the instructor in determining his or her final grade in class. The student should realize that learning is a process at times painful. Behaving in a mature and professional manner is expected. Respect towards the Instructor is required at all times. If you do not like the Instructor for any reason, learn to live with the problem.

1 "Required work" will be specifically identified by the Instructor. All major exams and project reports are considered required work. However, required work may not be limited to exams and reports only.

2 "Undesirable behavior" is defined as that behavior that may cause frequent unnecessary distraction to the Instructor or students in class, as well as disrespect shown towards the Instructor by means of comments or actions.

MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THESE RULES AND POLICIES BEFORE PLANNING AHEAD HOW TO STUDY AND PERFORM FOR THIS CLASS.

PLEASE ASK YOUR INSTRUCTORS IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERN.