Module Information

Module Identifier

PH37500

Module Title

Project (40 Credits)

Academic Year

2014/2015

Co-ordinator

Dr Rudolf Winter

Semester

Semester 1 (Taught over 2 semesters)

Pre-Requisite

PH25520 or FG25520, and Successful completion of Year 2.

Course Delivery

Delivery Type	Delivery length / details
Seminars / Tutorials	Regular consultation with project supervisor (6 hours)
Other	Oral presentations (9 hours)
Practical	Project work during normal laboratory hours (176 hours)

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment length / details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	Literature search (Semester 1)	5%
Semester Assessment	Literature review (Semester 1)	15%
Semester Assessment	Project Plan (Semester 1)	5%
Semester Assessment	Preliminary results (Semester 2)	5%
Semester Assessment	Final report (Semester 2)	45%
Semester Assessment	Oral Presentation (Semester 2)	15%
Semester Assessment	Progress mark (Semester 2)	10%
Supplementary Assessment	As determined by Departmental Exam Board	100%

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Identify, analyse and summarise the scientific literature of a chosen field.

Plan and implement their project with a good understanding of the physics involved and of the background literature.

Identify resources to undertake a scientific project.

Present their findings in written and oral form in a way appropriate for a scientific audience.

Aims

Students learn to investigate a particular scientific problem of their choice in depth, making full use of the scientific literature. They will be responsible to plan and manage their project, and they will use common ways of presenting scientific results to the community in the form of oral and written reports.

Brief description

This module doubles as the final year physics project for BSc students and as an intermediate project for MPhys students. All students will undertake a project on which they will work in pairs under the guidance of their personal project supervisor and present their results in an individual oral presentation and final project report. A number of intermediate milestones (literature search strategy, full literature review, project plan and preliminary results document) are designed to keep the project focussed and ensure a roughly equal workload distribution throughout the year. Different projects require different amount of laboratory work, computing, analysis etc, but as a guideline the total time spent on the project should be 400 hours.

Content

1. Literature review phase (literature search and review).
2. Planning phase (project plan, resourcing).
3. Experimental phase (experimental work, preliminary results document).
4. Dissemination phase (oral presentation, written report).

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6