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These pages are for semester-long, (nominally) individual project courses under the Master of Software Engineering (MSEng), 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 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.

• MSEng Project rules (COMP8730 - 6 units): as for the MCOMP rules, except higher-levels of SE practice should be shown throughout any implementation-style project.
• MCOMP Project rules (COMP87*0 - 12 units)
• Project Work in Computer / Information Systems rules (COMP3750 / COMP3760 - 6 units)

Before you can then actually start your project to you to fill and sign a 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 since semester 2 2009 is Uwe Zimmer . 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

• by Steve Blackburn (CSys, CSci)
• by Clem Baker-Finch (eSci, HCC)
• by Peter Christen (eSci, CSys, CSci):
• by Hugh Fisher (eSci, HCC)
• by Shayne Flint and the SE group
• by Tom Gedeon (AI, HCC, CSci, eSci, SE, IS):
• by Patrik Haslum (CS, AI)
• by Warren Jin and other NICTA researchers (AI, CSci, eSci, SE)
• by Weifa Liang (CSci, CSys, eSci)
• by Eric McCreath (AI, CSci, CSys, eSci, HCC, IS, SE)
• by Brendan McKay (eSci, CompSys)
• by Antonio Robes-Kelly (AI, HCC, CompSci)
• by Scott Sanner (AI, CompSys)
• by Felix Schill (CS, CSys, SE)
• by Peter Strazdins (AI, CSys, eSci, SE)
• by Sylvie Thiebaux (AI, CS)
• by Tom Worthington (IS, eSci?, CS?, SE?)
• by Jun Zhou (AI, CS, eSci)

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

Current and Recently Projects

Examples of projects completed under the MIT (eScience) degree over the years 2003 to 2007 can be found here.

Template for Project Descriptions

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