UG Research Project in CSiT

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UG Research Project in CSiT overview

• Time spent
• One lecture per week
• Individual meetings with supervisors
• Project content
• Project dissertation (80)
• Demonstration (10)
• Interim report (10)
• Literature vs. research project
• Research- or development-based project
• No literature-based

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UG Research Project in CSiT Assessment

• Assessment
• Marked by two academic staff
• Difficulty level
• Justifications methodology, relevance,
  literature, achievement and quality
• Weighting of assessment
• 40/20 credits for single/joint honour students
• 40/60 2nd/3rd year assessment
• No SEM form available

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UG Research Project in CSiT learning outcomes

• Knowledge and Understanding
• Individual projects may arise from any area of
  the curriculum and so may address any of the
  knowledge and understanding outcomes
• Intellectual Skills
• the ability to think independently while giving
  due weight to the arguments of others
• the ability to understand complex ideas and
  relate them to specific problems or questions

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UG Research Project in CSiT learning outcomes

• Professional Skills
• enhanced programming abilities
• the ability to comprehend and apply software
  engineering methodologies
• Transferable Skills
• the ability to plan, organization and execute
  project work
• the ability to communicate their results to others

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UG Research Project in CSiT aims

• To give each student the opportunity to study one
  aspect of computer science in detail
• Normally involve the development of a software
  system

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UG Research Project in CSiT intake

• Intake number of the last 5 years on average 242
• Staff/student ratio on average 1 v 9