MCS 321 PROJECT

• You are encouraged to work in teams of two.
• Choose a topic. This could be a topic covered in one or more sections in chapters 7-12 of our text.
  In a previous year, students chose these topics:
  • Fourier analysis--series and integrals
  • Steady temperatures
  • Laplace transforms
  • Fluid flow
  • Conformal mapping and harmonic functions
• Your topic report should include solutions of problems not explicitly worked out in the text, e.g., problems from Brown and Churchill's problem sections.
• Prepare an oral presentation--about 20 minutes long--to give to the class. If we have four teams of two people each, we could schedule all presentations as late as the last two days of class. Otherwise, we'll have to have some presentations scheduled in the penultimate week of classes.
• Type an accompanying report, perhaps 5-10 pages long. Figures and hard-to-type mathematics may be hand-drawn.
• The audience for your report consists of your fellow students.

Components of project and evaluation criteria
• ORAL PRESENTATION
  • Use of blackboard/whiteboard, overhead, ...
     
     
  • Contact with audience
     
     
  • Clarity of presentation
     
     
• WRITTEN PAPER
  • Organization, logical development
     
     
     
  • Technical correctness and completeness
     
     
     
  • Writing mechanics: grammar, spelling, proper embedding of mathematics in sentences, etc.