EE 456             Spring 2008

PRESENTATION

Instructions
A requirement of EE 456 is a presentation covering a topic closely related to the course. Making effective presentations is an integral part of any career. Giving presentations in a class makes you learn the material well, and provide a good venue to practice your presentation skills.  A good presentation will require thorough preparation.  Others are going to spend time listening to you, therefore it is essential that you make a sincere effort to make it a fruitful experience for everyone involved.

E-mail  your presentation title  and a short summary (few sentences) for approval to Anura.Jayasumana@colostate.edu as early as possible, but not later than April 12. Presentations will start on April 22. If there is any particular day you have to avoid, let me know.

A presentation is expected to be 20-25 minutes long.  All the lecture slots (with a few exceptions) from now through end of the semester  are available for presentations.  To avoid multiple presentations on the same topic and time conflicts,  topics and time slots   will be allocated on a first-requested  first-served basis.



The slides have to be your own creations. You may use figures, tables etc from other sources, provided those are identified by the appropriate reference immediately following the figure/table.  Include a list of all the references you've relied on for the presentation in a slide entitled 'Bibliography.'

E-mail your slides (ppt) to the instructor two working days prior to the presentation. Instructor will make hard copies for distribution.

Possible Topics:
You may either select a topic from the list given below or propose your own topic. In case of latter, the instructor approval of the topic is required.
The topic should not be related to a presentation  that you have done as a part of another course. 

Bluetooth Technology
WiFi
WiMax
How does a search engine work
Metropolitan Ethernet
IP Routers
Voice over IP
Instant Messaging
HTTP
Interplanetary Internet
Frequency hopping spread spectrum
GPRS
USB
Interplanetary communications

You may find tutorial papers related to the topic in magazines such as IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Network, IEEE Personal Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications. All these are available from on-campus computers via IEEE Xplore.  ACM also has a number of magazines, including ACM Communications, ACM Queue, etc.  available at  ACM Portal  .