Undergraduate Course: Honours Project (Informatics) (INFR10044)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This is a major project and 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.
For a single honours Informatics degree, the project will normally involve the construction of an artefact, whether software, hardware, a robotic device, some other artefact incorporating computation, or some combination of these. This requirement does not necessarily apply to combined honours degrees. |
| Course description |
Project dependent
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Only available to 4th Year Informatics students including those on joint degrees.
There is also a possibility of further project dependent pre-requisites. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 22,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
363 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The project is assessed on the basis of a written report which should typically contain:
- Title page with abstract (a one paragraph summary of the contents).
- Introduction and synopsis, in which the project topic is described and the main results are briefly summarised.
- Background, which sets the project in the context of published literature and justifies the further investigation.
- Methods, which presents the work undertaken, explaining and justifying the approach in detail, and in which the various sub-problems, solutions and difficulties are examined.
- Results, providing evaluation of the work and including, as appropriate, experiments undertaken, a presentation of the data gleaned from them, and an interpretation of that data.
- Discussion and conclusion, in which the main achievements are reviewed, and
unsolved problems and directions for further work are presented.
- 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, summarise and critically evaluate a body of knowledge relating to a substantial project topic in Informatics
- conduct a programme of work in further investigation of issues related to the topic
- discuss and solve conceptual problems which arise during the investigation
- critically evaluate the investigation, including design choices made
- present their work orally and visually, with demonstration of working artefacts where appropriate
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Reading List
| Project dependent |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Hiroshi Shimodaira
Tel: (0131 6)51 3279
Email: h.shimodaira@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Yesica Marco Azorin
Tel: (0131 6)50 5194
Email: ymarcoa@ed.ac.uk |
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