One of the major requirements for this course is a project on some aspect of computer networks. The project may be either a practical or a term paper. Listed below are some of the topics for the project. If you are taking this course for graduate credit, you will need to either do an additonal part to your project or do a second project. For the practical projects, you will be expected to give a brief presentation to the class on your project. and/or develop an HTML document. If you choose a term paper to write, you will need to turn in a copy to me for publication on the Internet and also make a brief presentation to the class. Some of the larger projects may be done in small groups, but I expect each participant to do a significant amount of the work. Once you have selected "your" topic, you are responsible for researching the topic through books, periodicals and/or the Internet. Your selected topic needs to be submitted to the instructor no later than September 12, 1997, so that the presentations can be scheduled.
I will be available for help with this projects.
You are expected to submit an HTML document (50 pts) suitable for publishing on the Internet as well as presenting an oral report (50 pts) to the class and instructor. Both the HTML document and the oral report are expected to be professional in their presentation. Each oral presentation should be
approximately fifteen minutes in length.
Possible Projects include:
- Design Coordinator / Technical Assistant (choose one) for Netday at:
You are expected to:
- complete a wiring diagram
- complete an equipment spreadsheet
- be available for Q&A during the Netday
- write a webpage that includes i) and ii) as well a description of the school
- do a brief oral presentation discussing i) - iv)
- Install the following Internet Servers on an NT computer: - Bryan Sanders (Nov. 18)
- Mail Server
- News Server
- Web Server
- Calendar Server
- Collabra Server
- We now have a copy of Novell Netware 4.1. This needs to be installed on a 5-computer system. This project would require installing the software on the computers and then setting up the fileserver and printservers. I anticipate the hardest part of this project will be getting Netware to work with Windows and TCP/IP. - Lee Garcia & Jennifer Atencio (Nov. 25)
- Installing Internet servers on a Macintosh computer - Scott Smith (Nov. 6)
- Token Ring Project at The First National Bank - Monica Lopez & Rhonda Boughan & Keith Tucker. (Nov. 6)
1. Set up a network printer
2. Set up a modom for the network so we can share.
3. Diagram our Token Ring Network
- Other project that we can agree on.
Network Term Paper Topics
The paper should be a significant research of an important topic in computer networks. It should be 10-20 pages and involve research from the Internet as well as
from books and periodicals.
- Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) - Rachel Vigil (Nov. 25)
- Frame Relay System - This is the system that will soon be installed in Las Vegas and will allow many of the schools in the area to access the Internet via NMHU. - Natalie Quintana (Nov. 4)
- Electronic Data Interchage (EDI) - this is an important protocol for the trasmission of data in the business world.
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - network protocol that allows fast multimedia data transfer - Lisa Valdez (Nov. 20)
- High Speed Ethernet
- Enterprise Computing - Arline Quintana (Nov. 25)
- Online Banking - Keith Tucker (Nov. 6)
- Other approved topics.
REMINDER: Graduate Students are required to do an additional project!