Undergraduate Course: MInf Project (Part 2) (INFR11093)

Course Outline
School	School of Informatics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	This is the second half a major project that runs over the fourth and fifth years. It is intended to allow students to demonstrate their ability to organise and carry out a substantial piece of work. The project involves both the application of skills learnt in the past and the acquisition of new skills. Typical areas of activity will be: gathering and understanding background information; solving conceptual problems; design; implementation; experimentation and evaluation; writing up. The project is conducted individually by the student under the supervision of a member of teaching staff. The project specification is usually provided by a member of staff, but students are also free to specify their own project. All project specifications must be approved by the Project Coordinator. The project will normally involve the construction of an artifact, whether software, hardware, a robotic device, some other artifact incorporating computation, or some combination of these. This second half continues from MInf Project (Part 1) starting with work identified in the Conclusion section of the report for MInf Project (Part 1). It is expected that work here will go into greater depth, the work carried out is not necessarily limited to that which was identified in MInf Project (Part 1).
Course description	Project dependent

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	For MInf fifth year students only

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Flexible
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 400 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 392 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	The project is assessed on the basis of a written report which should typically contain: - Title page with abstract (a one or two paragraph summary of the contents). The title page must include a prominent line stating `MInf Project (Part 2)'. - Introduction and synopsis, in which the project topic is described and the achievements of MInf Project (Part 1) are briefly summarised (no more than 10 pages). - Discussion of the work undertaken, in which the various sub-problems, solutions and difficulties are examined. - If appropriate, a description of experiments undertaken, a presentation of the data gleaned from them, and an interpretation of that data. - Conclusion, in which the main achievements are reviewed, and unsolved problems and directions for further work are presented. References to MInf Project (Part 1) would be relevant here. - Bibliography. After submission the student makes a presentation to the two markers. This presentation does not make an explicit contribution to the overall mark, but it does inform the markers' assessment of the report.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Structure and summarise a body of knowledge relating to a substantial project topic in Informatics Critically evaluate previous work in the area Conduct a programme of work in further investigation of issues related to the topic , and discuss and solve conceptual problems which arise during the investigation Justify design decisions made during the investigation, and critically evaluate the investigation Present work orally and visually, with demonstration of working artifacts where appropriate