Module manager: Dr Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos
Email: R.KuffnerdosAnjos@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The Group Project provides an opportunity for you to work on a major computing project as part of a team. The project will further develop both your team working/ project management skills and your technical knowledge and skills.
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- work as part of a group on a major computing project;
- identify and review relevant literature;
- identify and implement an appropriate project methodology;
- manage the project using appropriate tools and techniques;
- deliver a solution as negotiated with the supervisor;
- evaluate the solution;
- give a presentation to an audience of peers and staff on aspects of the project;
- write a report presenting the problem and its solution;
- reflect upon the project experience.
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
-to demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge and mastery of techniques relevant to the discipline and/or to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of concepts, information and techniques at the forefront of the discipline;
-to exhibit mastery in the exercise of generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities;
-to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
-to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
-proactively to formulate ideas and hypotheses and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate these;
-critically and creatively to evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline.
- Literature search and review techniques
- Project methodology and management
- Solution implementation
- Evaluation
- Report writing
- Presentation skills
- Ethics
- Reflection on experience.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Supervision | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| Lecture | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Private study hours | 282 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 18 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
2Self-directed study: 282 hours.
- Regular meetings with supervisor(s)
- Aim and minimum requirements formative deliverable
- Interim Report formative deliverable
- Progress Meeting with supervisor(s) and assessor.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Group Submission (Report+Supplemental Material) | 80 |
| Report | Individual Submission | 20 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Reassessment is not available for this module.
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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