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====== CM3203 One Semester Individual Project ====== | ====== CM3203 One Semester Individual Project ====== | ||
- | This is the main page for information about the 40 credit one-semester | + | This is the main page for information about the 40 credit one-semester |
- | ===== Project Selection ===== | + | * [[CM3203 Guide]]: The complete guide for CM3203 on a single page for printing/ |
- | At the beginning of the third year you are going to select your final year project. Below are guides on how to propose projects and select your project using PATS. | + | **Project Coordinator**: |
- | * [[Project | + | ===== Project |
- | * [[Project Supervision]]: | + | |
- | * [[Supervisors]]: | + | |
- | ===== Deliverables ===== | + | The setup of the module and project selection takes place in autumn term. This includes setting you up on PATS, creating proposals and selecting a project. |
- | This is an overview of the expected deliverables and related tasks you have to execute for your project. Details on these deliverables and tasks are available on the linked pages. You also find the required deliverables with their submission deadlines under your PATS project details. | + | * [[project_selection_lecture_notes|Project Selection Lecture Notes]] (autumn week 5) |
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- | * [[Initial Plan]]: You must submit an initial plan (by beginning of week 2, at most 2,000 words, worth 5%). | + | ==== Setup ==== |
- | * [[CM3203 Final Report]]: A final report must be submitted at the end of the semester (by beginning of week 12, at most 25,000 words, worth 95%) | + | |
- | * [[Project Viva]]: A project viva will take place after the exams for every final year project. | + | |
- | * [[Project Publication]]: | + | |
- | For information about how to submit | + | Before project selection starts, you will get an account on PATS linked |
- | ===== Guides ===== | + | * Check your **PATS profile**. You can edit some fields yourself. Change of e-mail address must be confirmed (check the confirmation e-mail |
+ | * If any information you cannot edit is **wrong**, contact the project coordinator; | ||
- | These guides are meant to help you produce good final year project reports. A good report is one that presents your project work concisely and effectively. It should contain various materials relevant to the work you have undertaken in respect of your project; it should be organised into a logical framework; and it should be supported by written material that follows well-established academic conventions in a consistent fashion. | + | ==== Proposals ==== |
- | An important point to remember is that the report should describe | + | You can select a staff proposal or propose |
+ | * You can **submit project proposals** on PATS as soon as you have been set up. The proposals | ||
+ | * If you **propose | ||
+ | * Supervisors may add more proposals during the selection period, and you can also add your own proposals later, edit them, etc., until selection deadline. | ||
- | Your project supervisor will guide you on what it is reasonable to expect a project in your chosen topic to deliver. However, all projects are required to justify all decisions made at every stage of research and the development of appropriate deliverables, | + | See **[[Project Proposals]]** for further details. |
- | * {{ : | + | ==== Selection ==== |
- | * General guides for writing reports: | + | |
- | * [[Gathering Material]] | + | |
- | * [[Arranging Material and Structuring the Project Report]] | + | |
- | * [[Writing a Project Report]] | + | |
- | * [[Using Descriptive Devices]] | + | |
- | * [[Supporting Material]] | + | |
- | * [[Main Recommendations]] | + | |
- | * [[Typesetting Rules]]: follow these rules to typeset your final report. | + | |
- | * [[Sources for Further Guidance]]: a collection of useful references. | + | |
- | Further information on how to use PATS, prepare the various deliverables in a suitable | + | Project **selection usually takes place from autumn week 5 to 11**. Details will be sent to your e-mail registered in PATS, and there will be a **lecture introducing the module**, including project selection and suitable |
+ | * Project selection runs via PATS, and you must **agree on a proposal with a supervisor before deadline** (usually by the end of autumn week 11). The selection deadline cannot be extended due to limited supervision slots. Once this has been completed, you will see your project on PATS and cannot select another project anymore. If you do not select a project, you will get a random supervisor and must agree on a project with them. | ||
+ | * Once you have selected a project with a supervisor, the **selection is final**. This can only be changed in exceptional circumstances with the help of the project coordinator. | ||
+ | * Your **project must be related | ||
- | | + | See **[[Project Supervision]]** for further details. |
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- | ===== Project Coordinator | + | ===== Ethics and Other Issues===== |
- | [[http://www.langbein.org/|Frank C Langbein]] at [[mailto:LangbeinFC@cf.ac.uk|LangbeinFC@cf.ac.uk]] | + | Your project may require **ethics approval**. All projects involving human participants, |
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+ | * **Simplified ethics**, i.e. approval by a supervisor: | ||
+ | * You can use this if **you are running one of the approved study types**: anonymous survey (to gather requirements for the system you are developing); | ||
+ | * And **you are not meeting the full review criteria** (i.e. you are not working with vulnerable participants and your dissertation does not focus on a potentially sensitive topic). | ||
+ | * **Regular ethics application**: | ||
+ | * Details on the ethics policies and procedures are available | ||
+ | The CM3203 ethics framework with the dissertation project ethics form for simplified ethics: | ||
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+ | with the following templates/ | ||
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+ | Other issues, such as **required resources** (e.g. special hardware or software) or **legal issues** (e.g. intellectual property and licensing), must also be considered for the proposal when agreeing to supervision and during execution, with proper risk management in place. | ||
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+ | **It is the student' | ||
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+ | ===== Project Execution (Spring Term) ===== | ||
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+ | The project is executed in spring term, from week 1 to week 12. **Regular supervisor meetings** will happen in that period and are to be arranged individually with each supervisor. As the student is expected to manage the project, they are also responsible for ensuring these meetings occur. The supervisors may follow up on students not attending, but this is not guaranteed. On average, the meetings are expected to be 30 minutes per term week, but the time can be distributed arbitrarily across the 12 weeks. It may include group sessions as suitable for the project. Specific arrangements should be agreed upon between the student and supervisor. If the student cannot get hold of the supervisor within the agreed schedule, they should contact the project coordinator (considering that usually, it can take up to a week for the supervisor to respond, even if often they are faster). | ||
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+ | The work on the project is towards the two assessments for the module: | ||
+ | * **[[CM3203 Initial Plan]]**: You must submit an initial plan (by the beginning of spring week 2, at most 2,000 words, worth 5%). | ||
+ | * **[[CM3203 Final Report]]**: A final report must be submitted at the end of the semester (by the end of spring week 12, at most 25,000 words, worth 95%). | ||
+ | You also find the required deliverables with their exact submission deadlines under your PATS project details. The **word limits** are a maximum for the main body of the report, not a target. Enough information such that a competent computer scientist can understand and reproduce the work should be given in the report, and any appendices or supplementary material (both do not count towards the word limit). More guidance and details about the coursework are in the corresponding sections above. | ||
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+ | ===== Extenuating Circumstances ===== | ||
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+ | If you have any extenuating circumstances, | ||
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+ | ===== Repeats ===== | ||
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+ | If you do the project in the **summer resit period** (for any reason), you would usually work on the same project with the same supervisor and moderator. This will automatically be set up, and you will get details on deadlines, etc., after the year exam board. If the supervisor is not available, another supervisor will be found. | ||
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+ | If you **repeat the project** (for any reason) during term, this will not be automatic. It will be an internal repeat of the module (external is not possible), taking you through the complete process. You must select a project/ |