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Computer Science and Software Engineering Capstone Presentations

Summer Quarter

August 21, 2020

David Nguyen

"Unlocking the Mysteries in Black Holes"

(UWB CSS Faculty Research)

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Arkady Retik

Abstract

The Capstone was a partnership between the CSS and Physics departments. The objective of this capstone project was to develop a computational infrastructure by rebuilding the programming tools used for graphing and normalizing Outflows in SDSS Quasars. The issue presented was that the original files of the tools were not up to date with the latest SDSS database and needs to be reorganized, refactored, and rewritten in some cases.

My role on the team was to work closely with the Physics student team to redesign the original files of the tools so that any future Physics students could have an easy understanding of how to use and manipulate the tools. I created step by step procedures in the file documentation where my plan would be to have a large abundance amount of comments throughout the files and then review it later with the rest of the team. I managed and delegated the tasks for the student CSSE team and would have daily check-ins between with each other for any questions or problems that needed to be worked on together immediately.

To make and record progress, I followed a weekly agile development schedule where the diagnostics and analysis of the programs would be checked by the Physicists and if there were any feedback given, it would be provided in a document that could be worked on as a TODO list. The list would be broken down and split up equally to be done for the week. I oversaw developing the weekly objective and general framework that would be followed in the future.

The result of this project was a complete refactoring of the Spectra Normalization code so that it can compile and be easy to comprehend. Another result was that I developed the road path for the future students to initially be able to use the tool and continue development without too much difficulties.

Updated August 20, 2020, 14:34