CE53003-6 Applied Information Technology Project
Final Year Project Information for Stoke-on-Trent students
commencing September 2010
Webpage maintained by David Noble
(students who started in January 2011 click here for their
project timetable
and here for their Inter-Semester
Presentation times)
Project
Proposal Form –
due noon on Friday October 1, 2010
- you can find some suggested topics here
and a list of some project topics from 2008/9 and 2009/10 here.
Project Specification
Form –
due noon on Friday October 22, 2010
Supervisors have now
been allocated to projects - you can see a List of Supervisors here.
Students
should arrange a time to meet with their Supervisor and, in conjunction with
them, agree the Project Specification Form (including your Project Plan) and
one of the Ethics Forms. Both
have to be signed by both you and your supervisor (if they are not they will be
returned to you) and hard copies handed in to the Award Support
Office at Stoke.
It
would be sensible if, when you first meet with your Supervisor, you take along
your first draft of your Project Spec as a starting point for discussion (they
will already have a copy of your Project Proposal). Copies of the blank Project
Specification Form and the Ethics Forms can be downloaded from the links on
this webpage.
Guidance on which Ethics Form to use and how to fill
in these forms can be obtained from your Supervisor and from the Faculty
webpage on ethics.
Inter-Semester
Presentations – in week
of 10-14 January 2011 (timetable).
At least 3 days
before the day of your presentation, you must put electronic copies of what you
have written so far for your Project Report in the ISP sub-folder within your personal
project folder. This is to
help your 2nd Assessor assess how well you are progressing.
An electronic copy of
your presentation should be put in the ISP
sub-folder within your personal project folder by the end of the day in which
you give your presentation.
Gradex11 entry -
due Friday 21 January 2011 after approval by Supervisor.
- Extract
from Handbook + Hand-in Requirements
- Stoke Entry Form
(this is different from the one you link to from the Gradex11 web page) + further
advice and information
- link to Gradex web page
Project Report – Two bound printed
copies of your Report (both including a copy of your Log Book and your project
plan(s) as Appendices) must be handed in to the Stoke Faculty Office on or
before 12 noon on Tuesday 3 May 2011. One copy of the printed Report will be
retained by the University. The
other copy can be collected after results have been published
One electronic copy of the Report (excluding
any material not available in electronic form such as the Log Book) must be
placed in the Final_Other
sub-folder within your personal
project folder accessible from the FCET labs and one electronic copy of any software or other artefact produced as
part of the project must be placed in the Final_Artefact subfolder. Both must be done before 15.00 on Tuesday 3 May, after which time the server will be closed.
Clear instructions must be provided within the Report on how the artefact can be
accessed and assessed.
Refer to the Project Handbook
for guidance on how your Report should be presented.
- Make sure that your
Cover
Page conforms with the style shown by this
link.
- Use Harvard
Referencing
Further information
from the library on Referencing
Poster You
are required to produce an academic poster on no more than 3 sheets of A3 paper
to display the work you have done on your project.
Your poster should be
presented on the day of your Final Project Presentation and an electronic copy
should be put in the Final_Other
sub-folder within your personal project folder by the end of the day in which
you give your presentation.
Guidance on the design and
creation of academic posters
Final Project Presentations
The Final Project Presentation normally takes place in
the three weeks following submission of the Report. It will be attended by your Supervisor
and 2nd Assessor. The same
rules will apply for the Final Project Presentation as for the Inter-Semester
presentation, eg. you are
expected to be neatly dressed, supply two (6 slides per page) printed copies of
your slides to your assessors at the start of the presentation etc. etc. In addition, your
presentation must conclude with (or
incorporate) a demonstration of your artifact,
showing clearly how you have met your objectives as set out in the Project
Specification. Inability to demonstrate your artifact may result in a
Fail.
An
electronic copy of your Final Presentation should be put in the Final_Other
sub-folder within your personal project folder
by the end of the day in which you give your presentation.
A list of presentation times will normally be
published about 2 weeks before the end of the teaching year. Each student will be allocated a 1 hour
time slot. This is to allow
sufficient time at the end of your presentation for your assessors to test your
artifact informally in your presence.
As a guide, your presentation, including demonstration of your artifact,
should last no more than 20 minutes
with 5 minutes afterwards for questions.
Marks will be awarded for the structure of your presentation and its
content, as well as for the way in which you present.
Click here to
download a file containing all the presentation times
If
you have a valid reason why you cannot make the time that you have been
allocated, you must contact your Supervisor before May 3 to arrange an
alternative time.
It is strongly recommended that you practise your
presentation with the equipment in the Lab you will be in beforehand. Liaise with the Technicians to do this.
If you must use your own laptop, it is your
responsibility to check beforehand with the Technicians in case there are any
compatibility problems.
Project
Assessment – click here to download
a copy of the Assessment Form (and the Supporting Notes).