SCHOOL OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
MSC PROJECT STUDENT HANDBOOK
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1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………4
1.1 Aims………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 1.2 When should you start?……………………………………………………………………………………..4
2. Project Support……………………………………………………………………………….5 3. Project Supervision………………………………………………………………………….6
3.1 Group Supervision Model…………………………………………………………………………………..6 3.2 Selecting a Supervisor……………………………………………………………………………………….6 3.3 Keeping in Contact with Your Supervisor ……………………………………………………………..7 3.4 Student Responsibilities …………………………………………………………………………………….7 3.5 Supervisor Responsibilities ………………………………………………………………………………..8
4. Project Deliverables ………………………………………………………………………..9
4.1 Weighting of Project Elements and Deadlines……………………………………………………….9 4.2 Project Definition ………………………………………………………………………………………………9 4.3 Dissertation – Research Paper…………………………………………………………………………..10
4.3.1 Paper Format……………………………………………………………………………………………..10 4.4 Reflective Essay………………………………………………………………………………………………11 4.4.1 Essay Format……………………………………………………………………………………………..11 4.5 Draft Research Paper ………………………………………………………………………………………11 4.6 Project Viva – Video and Viva Session ………………………………………………………………..11 4.6.1 Presentation Video ……………………………………………………………………………………..12 4.6.2 Viva Q&A Session……………………………………………………………………………………….12
5. Problem Definition…………………………………………………………………………13 6. Resources …………………………………………………………………………………….14
6.1 Hardware ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 6.2 Software…………………………………………………………………………………………………………14
7. Ethics and Projects that Involve Human Participants……………………………16 8. Referencing and Plagiarism…………………………………………………………….17
8.1 Referencing…………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 8.2 The Harvard System (required) ………………………………………………………………………….17
8.3 The Vancouver System (for information)……………………………………………………………..18 8.4 Plagiarism ………………………………………………………………………………………………………18
9. Project Marking Policy……………………………………………………………………19
10. Resitting a Project………………………………………………………………………..20
11. Calendar – Important dates ……………………………………………………………21
Appendices ………………………………………………………………………………………22
Appendix A – Marking Schemes……………………………………………………………………………..23
1. INTRODUCTION
This handbook provides an overview of the MSc projects within the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. You are strongly recommended to read and follow the guidelines within this handbook.
The MSc project gives you an opportunity to apply the techniques and technologies that you have learnt to a significant advanced project. This project will be an independent piece of work, which will either be significantly development based or else have a research focus.
All projects will be expected either to investigate or to make use of techniques that are at the leading edge. The project will be supervised by an academic member of staff from a relevant research area that will culminate in writing a dissertation, which will be in the form of a research paper that can be submitted to a conference or journal. This paper will be evaluated using the standard criteria for scholarly work. In addition to a research paper, projects will also include reflective essay and a viva component, where you will be required to explain and defend your project.
The MSc project aims:
• To give you the opportunity to investigate or apply leading edge techniques or theories in a significant, extended piece of project work.
• To enable you to gain a deep understanding of a specialised area of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.
1.2 WHEN SHOULD YOU START?
You are strongly encouraged to start doing some background reading during semester two, as you will be expected to submit a project specification on 28th February 2022.
2. PROJECT SUPPORT
There will be a series of project support sessions given by the project coordinator to support you in your MSc project. Attendance to these sessions will be monitored*. There is also an area on QMPlus where the lecture slides can be found, along with other supporting material.
There is a forum on QMPlus for the MSc projects where discussions can take place. This will be monitored by the project coordinator, who will answer questions if this seems useful.
The forum is not a substitute for questions that your supervisor should be helping you with.
*Unsatisfactory attendance will be reported to your Programme Director.
3. PROJECT SUPERVISION
3.1 GROUP SUPERVISION MODEL
Some supervisors may adopt a group supervision model, where students will either be working on a research or an implementation project. The research project will be related to the supervisor’s area of interest/expertise, while the implementation project will be based on a particular platform identified by the supervisor.
The supervisor will allocate a series of common tasks that the students can initially work on together, however each student project will need to produce a tangible output that is unique from the other projects within their supervision group.
Below are some group supervision project examples:
Data Analytics Projects
This type of project will involve analysing a particular dataset under the designated supervisor. Students will work as a group during the project implementation phase for tasks such as data acquisition and cleansing. The unique individual aspect of this project will include tasks such as performing particular data analysis. The students will then write individual papers on which they will be assessed.
Research Projects
Students will work a project that will based on the research area proposed by the supervisor. This involve the students working as a research group, where each student project will address a unique research problem.
3.2 SELECTING A SUPERVISOR
On 22nd November 2021, a list of supervisors and their project ideas/topics will be published on the EECS intranet landing page. Use this information to decide which member of staff you would like to contact in order to discuss project ideas.
Procedure for supervisor selection and allocation
1. Read the project ideas on the MSc Project QMPlus page. Make sure you carefully consider all the information before emailing a potential supervisor.
2. Before contacting a potential supervisor, download and complete the ‘Proposal Form’ that is available on QMPlus.
3. Contact the potential supervisor, by sending them an email with your completed initial proposal form. It is important that when you contact the academic member of staff that you demonstrate a keen interest and be well-informed about the potential project idea or the supervisor’s areas of interest.
You will be expected to complete an online form (QMPlus), where you will need to select a shortlist of five academics that you would like to be supervised by. You are only allowed to contact the academics that you selected within your shortlist. Academic staff will not respond to your email if they are not selected within your shortlist on QMPlus.
4. If the potential supervisor is happy to supervise you, then he/she will claim you as a supervisee.
5. As soon as you have an agreement with a supervisor, you must a) make all other potential supervisors you were communicating with aware that you will be supervised by another academic and b) stop contacting any further supervisors.
6. The deadline for supervision selection is 28th January 2022. After this date, you will be you will be allocated a supervisor by the Coordinator. These allocations cannot be guaranteed to perfectly match your interests, therefore it is vital that you be proactive in finding a supervisor who best matches your interests.
Supervisors have a quota of project students and the number of vacancies for taking on students will be updated online as students are claimed. Changing supervisors, once you have one, needs the agreement of your old and new supervisors.
3.3 KEEPING IN CONTACT WITH YOUR SUPERVISOR
It is important to meet with your supervisor regularly. If your project is not going well, tell your supervisor about it and definitely do not stop going to meetings.
If you have a particular issue that you cannot deal with in a regular meeting, email your supervisor for an appointment. It is likely that your supervisor will sometimes be away at research meetings or other events, so keep a note of these.
Keep track of your project progress, meetings with your supervisor, difficulties in diary/ notebook. It will help you to record issues you want to discuss with your supervisor when you meet and this site will be very useful when you are compiling content for your writeup.
Your time with your supervisor is limited. Hence it is essential that you make the most of this time. To do so, you need to have a good idea of what you wish to achieve during your supervision meetings.
3.4 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
• You need to monitor the project progress. Your role is something like a project leader whereas the supervisor’s role is more like a consultant and manager.
• You need to maintain regular contact and arrange appointments with your supervisor.
• It is your responsibility to gain the knowledge required and deal with implementation details. It is not the responsibility of the supervisor to provide ready-made solutions. You need to formulate the problems before asking your supervisor.
• It is important that you are self-motivated. You should not expect that you will be spoon-fed by your supervisor.
• You need to tell your supervisor about any equipment failure, technical or other difficulties, e.g. extenuating circumstances, that will interrupt your work.
• You can expect to receive a response from your supervisor and the project co- ordinator to e-mails and telephone messages within five working days (excluding weekends and any holidays). If there is no response then please notify the project co- ordinator.
3.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
• It is the supervisor’s responsibility to define the project objectives and the possible outcomes, or to refine these and check whether they are adequate if you have suggested your own project.
• The supervisor will provide advice and guidance but leave solutions and implementation details to the student.
• The supervisor will explain the project assessment method to the student and be responsible for evaluating the student’s project in terms of quality and quantity of the effort expended.
• Your supervisor is not obliged to chase you if you fail to keep appointments with him/ her.
4. PROJECT DELIVERABLES
4.1 WEIGHTING OF PROJECT ELEMENTS AND DEADLINES
The weightings and deadlines are as follows:
Project Element
Assessed by
Submission Location
Project definition
Not assessed but approved by supervisor
28th March 2022
Draft dissertation research paper
Not assessed, however supervisor will provide feedback
11th July 2022
Final dissertation research paper, reflective essay and supporting documentation
Supervisor and second examiner
15th Aug 2022
Presentation Video
Supervisor and second examiner
17th Aug 2022
Presentation at Viva*
Supervisor and second examiner
22nd Aug to 2nd Sept 2022
Location: Online
*Failure to attend the viva will lead to mark of zero for the project.
4.2 PROJECT DEFINITION
You will be expected to submit a project definition document on 28th March 2022, which should be a 3-4 page description your project. The contents of this document will vary, as it will dependent on the type of project you are undertaking. Hence this document may include:
• Details of the specific problem being addressed.
• An initial analysis of user requirements and data collection methods.
• The algorithms, methodologies and techniques to be employed.
• An initial specification of how users will interact with the system.
• Programming languages, software, hardware, databases.
• A list of background materials consulted so far, including internet resources.
This document should also include a work-plan, which will illustrate: • What you are going to do? e.g. tasks and sub-tasks
• When you are going to do it? e.g. time-periods
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
You can present this information as you wish, e.g. a list of tasks and sub-tasks with outcomes and dates, or in the form of a Gantt chart.
4.3 DISSERTATION – RESEARCH PAPER
In order to document your project findings and results you will need to a write a dissertation, which will be in the form of a research paper that can be submitted to a conference or journal. This paper will be evaluated using the standard criteria for scholarly work. The submission deadline for your dissertation is 15th August 2022. This will be assessed by your supervisor and second examiner.
The structure of your research paper will vary depending on the nature of the project, however the basic structure of your paper will include:
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Related work – “What others have done?”
• Background research (primary research)
• and/or literature review (secondary research) • Methodology – “What you have done?”
• Requirements capture / analysis – what your system should do • Design – how you went about your work
• Implementation – practical techniques, problems, solutions
• Testing and/or evaluation – how well your solution worked
• Discussion / Conclusion
• This should be a critical analysis of your work and an honest appraisal of the achievements of your project.
• Future work
• Discuss how your current work can be extended, which provides readers with an insight on new research directions.
• References
4.3.1 PAPER FORMAT
• Two column format
• 8 pages – This excludes references and appendices.
A template (LaTEX and word) is available on QMPlus, which has the correct formatting required for submission.
PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL/ CONFERENCE OR ONLINE ARCHIVES WITHOUT SEEKING PERMISSION FROM YOUR SUPERVISOR.
ECS7500P (MSc Advanced Research Project) and ECS754P/ECS753P (MSc by Research Project) students will be expected to produce a dissertation research paper that will be 12 pages (excludes references and appendices). The extra four pages should reflect more substantial results, which translates into a more in- depth literature review, design, analyses and evaluations.
4.4 REFLECTIVE ESSAY
You will also need to submit a 5 page reflective essay, which will supplement your research paper. The reflective essay is a part of the making criteria for the project as a whole, as it is not an individual component. The purpose of the essay is to allow you to elaborate further on the points below and include a reflective account of the project that would not normally be in a research paper.
• Analysis of strengths/weaknesses
• Presentation of possibilities for further work
• Work that you would have conducted if you had more time.
• Critical analysis of the relationship between theory and practical work produced • Awareness of Legal, Social Ethical Issues and Sustainability
This essay has a submission deadline of 15th August 2022. This will be assessed by your supervisor and second examiner.
Degree Apprenticeship students will NOT need to submit a reflective essay.
4.4.1 ESSAY FORMAT
• Font face: Arial
• Font size: 11
• Single line spacing
• Single column
• 5 pages max (excluding references)
A word template is available on QMPlus, which has the correct formatting required for submission.
4.5 DRAFT RESEARCH PAPER
You will have the opportunity to submit a draft version of your research paper on 11th July 2022 to your supervisor. This will not be assessed, however it is a fantastic opportunity for you to get feedback before the final submission of the paper.
4.6 PROJECT VIVA – VIDEO AND VIVA SESSION
The viva assessment will be split into two sub components:
1. Presentation Video
2. Viva Q&A Session
The viva assessment will be assessed by your supervisor and second examiner. Please note that the viva itself informs the project mark. The viva should not be treated as a separate component from the project itself. Hence a viva can both increase and decrease the mark gauged from the project documentation (i.e. dissertation paper and reflective essay).
4.6.1 PRESENTATION VIDEO
Video is a powerful medium to disseminate your project, as it gives you an opportunity to showcase your project to a wider audience and provide further insights. In relation to this, you will need to create a 10 minute presentation video (±10% duration), where you will be expected to provide an overview of your project and contributions. This is a unique opportunity for you to convince your examiners that your project is of high quality and interesting. The purpose of this presentation video will be to provide an overview of the:
• area you worked in,
• the statement of the problem you investigated,
• the description of the methods used to solve the problem, • a demonstration of the practical/implementation work,
• a summary of your work,
• a presentation of your results (both positive and negative).
This presentation video has a submission deadline of 17th August 2022. 4.6.2 VIVA Q&A SESSION
During the period 22nd August to 2nd September 2022, you will be allocated a time-slot where you will be assessed on your ability to answer questions about your project to your examiners. This session will be 20 minutes, where you will be expected to answer questions about your project contributions (i.e. methodology and demo), which will also include questions about implementation (i.e. coding).
If you fail to attend the viva then you will receive a mark of zero for the project.
You will also fail your project if you fail to submit the dissertation research
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