The Master's final project is a comprehensive professional informatics engineering project completed individually by students who have earned all the programme credits. This original paper performed, submitted and defended before an examination board should cover all the competences acquired during learning. Students shall have the option of performing the project at the School of Computer Engineering, at any other centre of learning or research, preferably abroad, or at a company with which the School of Computer Engineering has an educational agreement.
From the viewpoint of competences, the performance and defence of this paper shall assure that the student has gained a level of application and synthesis in the following specific competences.
SC16 Ability to relate what consumers or customers want and need to what the technology can offer
SC17 Ability to decide between buying, developing or applying technology across the whole range of process, product and service categories of a business or institution
SC18 Ability to understand the market, trends and needs for technology products or services
SC19 Ability to develop and deploy an informatics solution in a business environment.
Propose a qualitatively and quantitatively substantiated solution to a real problem that is complex or poorly defined, belongs to a new or emerging area, requires the development of new and original approaches or methods, or is multidisciplinary.
Establish a problem-solving project management proposal (requirements, planning, scheduling, budget, follow-up, etc.).
Implement the proposed solution to a problem in terms of code, prototype, reports, proof of concept, analysis, designs and/or documentation within a real business environment.
Cleary and unambiguously explain and defend the proposed solution for a specialized and non-specialized audience.
Coordinator
The subject shall be coordinated by a member of the degree programme academic staff appointed by the dean of the School of Computer Engineering. Apart from a coordinator, the subject is also governed by a commission.
Master's Final Project Commission
The members of the Master's Final Project Commission shall be as follows:
• The coordinator who shall act as chairperson
• A representative of the degree programme curricular track commission for optional subjects
• School of Computer Engineering heads of department and departmental sections or deputizing academic staff
• One representative of each School of Computer Engineering department and departmental section appointed by the respective head of department
• Additionally, the commission shall, subject to the number of enrolled students, be rounded out with more academic staff until the number of commission members is roughly equal to half of the number of enrolled students. The academic staff members shall be proposed by the heads of department at the request of the coordinator and shall be distributed by departments in proportion to each department's degree programme credit load.
Tasks of Master's Final Project Commission
Evaluate all the submitted offers (for both Option A and Option B) and decide which are suitable (and therefore approved) and which need to be reformulated according to the Commission's recommendations. Additionally, any offers that do not pass a second evaluation after reformulation may be rejected.
Participate, along with the evaluated paper supervisor, in the boards set up to evaluate the Master's final project papers.
Put forward amendments to these regulations for consideration by the Programme Academic Commission.
Any others that it is assigned by the Programme Academic Commission.
