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A new model for a required senior research experience

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 4

Pages 48 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/820127.820164

Published: 01 December 2002 Publication History

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This paper describes a new way of implementing a required undergraduate research experience. In addition to the project itself, this experience also includes a senior capstone seminar that teaches students how to do research, a scholarly capstone paper, and a capstone conference that reproduces the feel of an actual scientific meeting. This paper describes these experiences along with an assessment of how it has worked in its first years of operation.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 4

December 2002

151 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/820127

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