Discussion of Final Project

Final Project: Reading, Writing & Speaking

Seven Papers on Applications of FACTS for improving control & stability of systems

Each student is responsible for one paper

Steps:

1. Read paper thoroughly & critically

2. Prepare a summary presentationa. 15 to 20 minutes in length

b. Summarize & analyze paper

c. May be on video tape, or PowerPoint/Farsite/Telephone live

3. Prepare a written critique of your paper

4. "Peer Review" 2 critiques for classmates(send in to me by email)

5. Revise your critique based on classmate comments

Grading of Critiques:

Only the final version will be graded using the following categories

Analysis 50% Organization 25% Writing 25%

Grading of Peer Reviews:

The comments you give to your classmates will be graded using this breakdown

Depth of analysis 50% Technical understanding 25% Clarity of expression 25%

Overall Grade Breakdown

Presentation of Summary 35% Peer Reviews 30% Written Critique 35%

Questions to be answered in your critique:

1. What is the problem being studied?

2. Is it an important problem? Why or why not?

3. What are the main results?

4. What method is used to produce the results?

5. What are the assumptions made in the paper? Are they realistic?

6. How sensitive are the results to the assumptions?

7. What did you learn from this paper?

8. What are the similarities and differences of this paper compared to other related papers?

Guidelines for Peer Review comments

1. Use only constructive criticism.

2. State both weaknesses and strengths

3. If you point out a weakness try to also suggest a possible solution

4. Seek and identify unclear statements or points

5. Make your suggestions reasonable

Paper assignments:

Burstein => Parniani & Iravani Mandal => Pourbeik & Gibbard (1996) Mercado => Noroozian Sander => Mihalic, Zunko & Povh Sommers => Noroozian & Anderson Yang => Gronquist, Sethares, Alvarado & Lasseter

Jatskevi => Pourbeik & Gibbard (1997)

Schedule:

Fri. April 17thProject assigned (today) Mon. April 20th Live lecture & questions Wed. April 22nd Taped lecture Fri. April 24thPrepare & Tape presentations (no class)

Mon. April 27th Student Presentations Wed. April 29th Student Presentations Fri. May 1st Peer reviews due & returned May 4th - 8th Work on revisions Mon. May 11th Final versions of critiques due