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Scholarly Paper Requirement

Scholarly Paper with ECE797 • Student must develop a rigorous, technical report (called Scholarly Paper) on a topic of current interest in

Electrical and Computer Engineering and make an oral presentation of this report. Students fulfill this requirement through and individual project in a 600-level or above ECE graduate course. Offered by Electrical & Comp. Engineering (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/engineering/electrical- computer/). May be repeated within the degree.

• Recommended Prerequisite: Completed 18 credit hours of graduate work. • Registration Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Non-Degree level students. • Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Research Involvement • Unlike Master Thesis and other regular academic article development, the much lower expectation is

applied to the scholarly paper. In other words, it is not required to be as high quality as to be formally published (and won't be credit either).

• Also, compared to students involving Master Thesis and other regular academic article development, the students who sign up for ECE616 scholarly paper are expected to be more self-motivated and self-lecturing. They are not by default expected to participate in the lecturer's regular research activities, and therefore they won't receive strict mentoring that the lecture performs with his Ph.D. students.

• The development of the scholarly paper will take place in the lecturer's office hour by appointment only.

Scholarly Paper Topic • Regarding the course content of ECE616, the recommended scholarly paper topics would be technical

surveys. Some useful reference papers could be: o On Optimization Methods for Deep Learning o Recent Advances in Efficient Computation of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

• A comprehensive survey paper should provide a clear and structured overview of the recent technical advances in a particular research topic. Technical summaries should be precisely made, and sufficient works and references should be covered. Moreover, students’ own analyses and insights should be proposed for the surveyed results.

• The students who would adopt the survey paper topics should pick a sub-topic of any individual course title as a research focus (e.g., the deep learning computing optimization, hardware acceleration, etc.).

• Please talk to the lecture to clarify the content expectations for students who would like to develop their own topics.

Scholarly Paper Requirement • Please use IEEE conference/journal double column article template. Latex is more preferred. Carefully

following these templates’ requirements, any violation (e.g., improper figure size and placement) will turn down the final approval.

• The paper length is expected to be 6~8 pages (without references). • Please organize the paper in a formal scholar paper structure (please refer to the examples mentioned above). • To prevent unexpected low quality, please submit your first draft before 11/15/2020. Failing submitting the

first draft will also fail ECE797.