System Design Project (U01908)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 9 ? Acronym : INF-3-SDP

The System Design Project is intended to give students practical experience of (a) building a large scale system (b) working as members of a team. The project involves applying and combining material from several courses to complete a complex design and implementation task. At the end of course each group demonstrates its implemented system and gives a formal presentation to an audience of the students, supervisors, and visitors from industry.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Successful completion of Year 2 of an Informatics Single or Combined Degree, or equivalent by permission of the School.

? Prohibited combinations : This course is not available to VUG students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Informatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 4 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
09/01/2008	09:00	13:00			Room 3.12, Appleton Tower

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Laboratory	Wednesday	09:00	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this project, students will have gained experience of the following:
- Working as members of a team.
- Planning and monitoring the effort of a project to meet milestones and deadlines.
- Designing and implementing a complex and multi-faceted system.
- Attempting to achieve a difficult objective within a limited time-scale.
- Drawing together knowledge and understanding of wide areas of software and hardware systems.
- Demonstrating and presenting the outcome from a practical project.
- Documenting the feasibility, design and development of a potential product.