Grad Student Lectures

Graduate students enrolled in CS645 are expected to do a small library-research project on top of the normal course work. The deliverables of this project are:

• A 12-15 minute video lecture to be presented to the class (comprising a pre-recorded video and slides)
• A 15-20 page written summary of your lecture topic, complete with references

Your project can be on any topic related to requirements engineering, or possibly a more general software engineering topic. Example topics include requirements notations not covered in class (e.g., Alloy, SCR, SysML), requirement-phase activities (e.g., conformance to privacy laws, security requirements, requirements for product lines, or traceability), or an interesting case study.

Topics must have the instructor’s approval.

The graduate lecture is to be just that: a lecture on a course-related topic aimed at an audience that is familiar with requirements-engineering activities and techniques. The topic is expected to be an overview, based on several sources (journals, conference papers, textbooks, etc.). Electronic copies of graduate-student lectures (videos, slides) will be made available below.

This project is worth 10 points of a graduate student’s final mark calculation.

Here are slides from a 20-minute lecture and a writeup of a graduate lecture on Risk Analysis.