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Guide to Successfully Completing Your Independent Study Project

This comprehensive guide aims to assist students in effectively managing and executing their independent study projects. It emphasizes the importance of establishing clear objectives, maintaining organized progress through timetables, and the necessity of a literature review and ethical considerations. Additionally, it covers the project lifecycle, providing insight into engineering approaches that enhance project outcomes. With practical tips on supervision and report presentation, students will learn to balance project ambitions with achievable goals for academic success.

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Guide to Successfully Completing Your Independent Study Project

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  1. How to Do a Project Alistair D N Edwards http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/

  2. Why do you do a project? • …or ISM (Independent Study Module)?

  3. On-line help • http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/projects/howtodo.html

  4. Learning • What do you expect to learn by doing a project? • - as well as getting a good mark • Make the most of your supervisor • The structure of project work • Research • Donkey-work • Writing-up

  5. Plan your project • Have 2 projects in mind • the one you can do • finish on time • sufficient to get a good mark • the one you would like to do • …if you have time • Have a timetable • which you can use to monitor progress • which includes writing up time

  6. Compulsory elements • Literature review • Statement of ethics • …err, that’s it • Other elements depend on the kind of project

  7. Lifecycle • The project should show an engineering approach • apply a lifecycle • Spiral is a good one • suits the kinds of projects I do • fits the 2-plans approach above • Boehm, B. W. (1988). A spiral model of software development and enhancement. IEEE Computer 21(5): pp.61-72.

  8. Marking • More later but here’s the form

  9. Start a notebook

  10. What are the ethical implications of your project?

  11. Meetings • 30 minutes per week • progress forms • mid-term review

  12. Progress check

  13. It is the report which gets marked • Do plenty of background reading • take notes • do a good job • put some effort into presentation etc • leave yourself sufficient time to write up • Attend MPB! • Read ‘How to write up a project’ • http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/projects/howtowrt.html • Be aware of the length limitations: • 35,000 words and 70 pages

  14. …and the presentation • Credit for the work done • and proof of the work done • Video • Marked by the same markers • Two days after report hand-in • Compulsory

  15. Administration • Budgets • in writing • approved by me • asap

  16. Further reading

  17. Questions?

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