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These pages are for semester-long, individual project courses under the Master of Computing (MCOMP) and the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degrees. Normally, the project is regarded as having an implementation emphasis (as opposed to a research emphasis ). The projects usually involve either the construction and evaluation of a substantial software artefact, with the principles of (software) project management being used to guide its development and documentation.

Project Rules

Please have a look at the overarching project principles first: General Principles and Policies.

• MCOMP Project rules (COMP8740, COMP8750, COMP8780, and COMP8790 - 12 units)
• Project Work in Computer Science, Computing, Computer Systems, Information Systems rules (COMP3710, COMP3740, COMP3750, COMP3760 - 6 units)

Before you actually start your project, you need to fill and sign an Independent Projects Study Contract. Please discuss the contents of this contract with your direct project supervisor and present it to your course supervisor as well as to the overall projects supervisor.

Course Co-ordinators

Co-ordinators are appointed for each project course. There is also an overall projects co-ordinator. Note that in both cases, the co-ordinators may change from semester to semester.

If you are a student intending to enroll in a project course, you should contact the overall projects co-ordinator as soon as the semester starts (or even before). If you want information on one of the specialist areas, then contact the relevant course co-ordinator. In most cases, enrollment is conditional on finding a suitable project topic and a willing supervisor.

The overall projects co-ordinator in 2012 is Weifa Liang. The individual courses and their second examiners (which are closer to the individual fields than the overall co-ordinator) are:

Some Notes on Projects

• all current project students will attend a number of CS Project `Community of Practice' Meetings to develop project and research -related skills.
• some notes on project reports, including principles of correct attribution from other sources (i.e. avoiding plagiarism). You need to understood this from the early stages of your project!
• computing systems that can be used for postgraduate student projects.

Current Project Topics

Note: students may suggest their own projects in negotiation with the overall projects coordinator (and potential supervisor).

Current and Recently Projects

Template for Project Descriptions

For supervisors, a template project description page may be found here.