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+ | ====== Project Selection Lecture Notes ====== | ||
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+ | * Project selection from **autumn week 5** until **end of autumn week 11** (PATS knows and shows your specific deadlines, including approved extensions; extensions for selection are not possible). | ||
+ | * **Hard deadline** - you will be assigned a random supervisor if you do not have a project selected. | ||
+ | * You can **propose your own project** or select a **staff project**. | ||
+ | * **No guarantee** you can do your own project - must be **agreed with a supervisor**. | ||
+ | * Everything is managed via PATS - read the [[cm3203|CM3203 wiki entries]]. | ||
+ | * Check your **PATS profile** and report any mistakes (**degree scheme**). | ||
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+ | ===== What makes a good project? ===== | ||
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+ | The project allows you to **demonstrate your skills** and **explore a topic in-depth**: [[project_proposals# | ||
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+ | The **work must be the student' | ||
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+ | See the [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Solve a Problem ==== | ||
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+ | * Anything that is **related to your degree scheme** (specialisms). | ||
+ | * Something that you can do **with the material learned in the course**. | ||
+ | * **Specialised** in some area; necessarily means you **need to learn more** and may not know everything yet. | ||
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+ | ==== Components ==== | ||
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+ | * **Background** and context of the problem with a detailed **problem specification**. | ||
+ | * **Methodology** or approach of how the problem is solved. | ||
+ | * **Evaluation** of the solution. | ||
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+ | A **complete solution is often not required**, and **positive and negative evaluations are both useful**, depending on your problem. **Discuss the expectations** for a particular proposal with your supervisor. | ||
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+ | ==== Deliverables ==== | ||
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+ | * [[cm3203_initial_plan|CM3203 Initial Plan]] | ||
+ | * [[cm3203_final_report|CM3203 Final Report]] | ||
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+ | ==== Student Proposals ==== | ||
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+ | * [[project_proposals# | ||
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+ | ==== Feasibility ==== | ||
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+ | * **Special resources**, | ||
+ | * **Ethical approval**, affecting any project involving human participants, | ||
+ | * **Legal issues**, especially intellectual property and licensing. | ||
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+ | See [[cm3203# | ||
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+ | ==== Management ==== | ||
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+ | * The **student is responsible to manage and execute the project**. | ||
+ | * The supervisor **supports and advises** as needed, provides **feed-forward**, | ||
+ | * **Regular meetings** with supervisor during spring term weeks (about **30 minutes on average per term week**). | ||
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+ | ==== Assessment ==== | ||
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+ | Supervisor and moderator mark your deliverables independently and then agree on a mark for the exam board, to be checked by an external examiner. | ||
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+ | * **High 1st**: solution completed to high standards and explored deeply; often evaluation, but also your own ideas/ | ||
+ | * **1st**: solution explored deeper; completed to high-level standards; fulfilling all expectations completely. | ||
+ | * **2.1**: standard solution, well within expectations, | ||
+ | * **2.2**: some problems, but solid core of a solution within expectations. | ||
+ | * **3rd**: major problems with the solution, not meeting expectations, | ||
+ | * **Fail**: solution has severe problems; inappropriate approach; hardly any suitable work or results. | ||
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+ | See marking criteria of the deliverables. | ||
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+ | **Discuss details and expectations of specific proposals with supervisor**. | ||
+ | ===== Project Selection ===== | ||
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+ | * **Express interest** in staff proposals / **find a supervisor** for your proposal via PATS. | ||
+ | * Arrange meeting with supervisor to **[[project_supervision|discuss]]**. | ||
+ | * Can meet with more supervisors and agree later on, but **meeting is essential**. | ||
+ | * Agreement is on **first come, first served** basis and exactly the same project can only be **executed once**. | ||
+ | * Clearly **agree supervision** with a supervisor; they will set up your project on PATS. | ||
+ | * This is **final** and can only be changed in exceptional circumstances. | ||