Project Ideas

You can (and are encouraged to) come up with your own ideas and not just accept the projects proposed by staff. In all cases, you must discuss your proposal with a member of staff before you submit it and get their signature on the completed proposal form.

Proposal Tips

• Pick a project which addresses a real problem. A project which does not address a real problem will be pointless, both to you and to examiners. If your project addresses a real problem, the requirements and constraints of that problem will provide a natural structure for your work. Without a real problem the project may be vague and hard to get to grips with. In industry (and while on INTRA) you'll be solving real problems: the project will give you a taste of that.
• Pick a project you are interested in: ideally something you would use yourself. Or something a friend or relation would use, a person or business you know would use, etc.
• Work in teams. 2-person teams are ideal.
• Use technology you're happy with. If you want to learn a new programming language or system, the project could be a good time to do so, but make sure you allocate extra time for learning!

Staff suggested projects

Below is a set of links to staff supplied project ideas. Please note if you wish to take one of these projects, you must discuss with the staff member who is suggesting the project and you must get their approval (ie. signature on proposal form).

• Mark Roantree
• Monica Ward's
• Mark Humphrys
• Steve Blott
• Charlie Daly
• Gareth Jones also see CDVP
• John McKenna
• Mike Scott
• Howard Duncan
• Alistar Sutherland
• Alan Smeaton see CDVP
• David Sinclair
• David Gray
• Brian Stone
• Geoff Hamilton
• Jane Horgan
• Markus Helfert
• Heather Ruskin

List of supervisors

For a full list of potential supervisors, please see the School staff list