Final Year Projects

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Final Year Projects Com560M2 What you need to
know!!
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Lecture Overview

• The web site
• Important Dates
• Citing and referencing
• Plagiarism

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The Site

• http//www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/projects/
• This site will contain all you need to know when
  you need to know it

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Topics and Supervision

• Meet with your supervisor now!
• A topic or topic area may be suggested by your
  supervisor
• If you have a topic of your own you need to have
  it agreed by a supervisor.

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Project Proposal Form

• The example is on the web page.
• To be completed by the student.
• Must be agreed by your supervisor
• A hard copy, signed by your supervisor must be
  submitted to the co-ordinator by the end of week
  one, semester 2, as well as a digital copy, which
  should e-mailed to m.doherty_at_ulster.ac.uk as an
  attachment. The attachment should be saved as
  your_student.doc, eg 12345601.doc
• A copy should be retained by both the student and
  supervisor.

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Final Report

• Background literature review (out of 20)
• Requirements analysis specification (out of
  10)
• Design (out of 10)
• Implementation and testing (out of 20)
• Evaluation (out of 10)
• Total Report (out of 70)
• Software/Hardware Demonstration (out of 10)
• Presentation and Viva (out of 10)
• Project Management (supervisor only) (out of
  10)
• Total Mark (out of 100)

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Warning!

• Plagiarism