CS513 students this semester are expected to participate in a group project that has non-trivial security content. There is some flexibility in what you do and how you do it. This note outlines what is expected and when.
MEng students can use their CS513 project as the basis for the required MEng project. If this is your intention, then your group must all be MEng students who are electing to use the project in this manner.
Profit from our past experience: groups of size 1 almost universally underperform other groups, because all the work falls to a single person and because discussing ideas with others, a powerful tool, is not available to a single-person group. Moreover, after graduation you will likely work in a group. So working in a group now will help you hone skills needed to be an effective group member. Single-person groups are thus strongly discouraged.
All submissions should be made through CMS. CMS provides a way for you to define your group. Be advised that each group member must take an action in creating a group, and your group cannot submit anything through CMS until the group has been created.
Grading. This project effort accounts for 30% of the final course grade, allocated as follows among the three phases: Phase I (5%), Phase II (10%), Phase III (15%).