General description
The purpose of the project, on which the dissertation is based, is to demonstrate that the student has acquired the ability to undertake and satisfactorily complete a major piece of work in computing.

Aims
The aim of the MSc project is to demonstrate that students can:

• bring together the knowledge acquired from the various modules in the programme and apply it to a major task;
• use the professional and academic literature to extend their knowledge to meet the challenges of the project;
• critically evaluate other people's work and their own.

Learning outcomes
On completion of the project, students will have:

• carried out a comparatively small scale piece of computing work, independently;
• been informed in their approach to this work by the available literature;
• thought critically about their work;
• analysed and described the work in a clear and well written dissertation.