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 of 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 artefact, whether software, hardware, a robotic device, some other artefact 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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | For MInf fifth year students only |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, 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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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
392 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| 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 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 Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)50 2692
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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