EECS Student Handbook 2023/24

The project coordinator for undergraduate projects is Dr Usman Naeem eecs-ug-project-coordinator@lists.eecs.qmul.ac.uk. A number of timetabled support sessions will be given throughout the year by the project coordinator to guide you through the various stages of the project.

You will be required to produce various documents to given deadlines throughout the duration of the project. Information for these will also be made available on the QM+ pages. You will be assessed via an oral presentation (and where appropriate a demonstration) of your project at a prescribed place and time during the May examination period and via the interim and final report that documents your project.

The final year project carries 30 credits and is the centrepiece of your degree. It gives you the opportunity to apply what you have learned in your course, as well as to learn new things, in order to produce a significant piece of individual work and a substantial report that documents it.

Information about available topics and supervisors, and about the process for finding a supervisor, will be published on the QM+ pages for projects.

In order to successfully complete your project, you need to:

• Think of an idea for your project.
  
• Find a supervisor and agree a project title – make sure that you have been ‘claimed’.
  
• Work with your supervisor to agree and submit the project title and proposal.
  
• Submit the Project Definition
• See your supervisor regularly (weekly) when possible.  Make appointments in advance, keep them, and find out when your supervisor will be on holiday or away teaching/at conferences.
• Submit your final report on time, with your PowerPoint presentation and other supporting material.
  
• Give a good presentation.
  

if you are unhappy with your supervisor you need to contact the project coordinator.

Please note that IET Accreditation Body have a requirement that the major individual project (BSc/BEng/MSci/MEng/MSc) and group project (MSci/MEng) must be passed at the first attempt in order to graduate with an IET accredited degree. The BCS have a requirement that the major individual project has to be a problem solving project and passed at the first attempt in order to obtain the BCS Accreditation.  

The project coordinator for MSc projects is Dr Usman Naeem.   The project will give you the opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned in the taught part of the course and to produce original and publishable work.  You have to pass both the taught courses component and the project to be awarded an MSc.  You will be required to produce various documents to given deadlines throughout the duration of the project.  You will also be required to give an oral presentation (and where appropriate a demonstration) of your project at a prescribed place and time.

The oral examination (viva) will be assessed by your supervisor and a second examiner.  It will take place during the first two weeks of September.