Final-year project for exchange programmes

Recognition

The receiving higher education institution shall have to forward the respective grades or transcript of records to the Facultad de Informática's International Office for it to recognize final-year projects (FYP) completed as part of exchange programmes. Another requirement is for students to have earned all the degree course credits.

Students shall not be allowed to enrol for their FYP until they have earned ALL the degree programme credits. Students shall enrol during the ordinary enrolment period (1 September to 31 August of the respective academic year).

Students shall enrol for their FYP at the International Office.  The International Office shall ensure that students meet all the requirements. To enrol, students shall fill in and submit the FYP Enrolment Application Form for Exchange Programmes.

The International Office shall give students a payment slip. Students shall have to pay in the fees no later than the stated deadline. Students shall submit a copy of the receipt no later than fifteen working days after the deadline.

Students shall submit to the International Office two copies of the bound project written in the language in which the student completed the project, including a four-page (maximum) summary in Spanish.

The volumes, one grey and the other sky blue, shall have to be hardbound following the Facultad de Informática content and formatting instructions.

The FYP shall not be graded until the student has submitted the enrolment payment slip and the bound copies.

Presentation guidelines

Content guidelines:

• Your FYP should clearly separate your own work from what you have taken from other sources
• Order of presentation:
  • Contents page
  • Summary
  • Introduction and objectives
  • Development
  • Results and conclusions
  • References (publications used to research and develop your final-year project)

Format guidelines:

• DIN A4, printed on both sides.
• Times Roman 12 points or equivalent font. Use black ink for text.
• Top and bottom margins: 3.5 cm, left margin:  4 cm, and right margin: 2 cm (alternate left and right margins on even pages), odd pages on right-hand side.
• Printed area: 22.5 cm  (approximately 40 lines) x 15 cm.
• Headers and footers should be outside the printed area.
• Headings and subheadings should be numbered using the chapter number followed by an Arabic numeral,  e.g. 2.3.1. for a level 2 heading.
• Capitalize chapter headings.
• Centre page number at the bottom of the page. Chapter 1 should start on page 1.
• Number all the pages of any sections preceding Chapter 1 with a Roman numeral (lower case), centred at the bottom of the page.
• Order references alphabetically by the author's surname. List the year of publication, full title of the publication and full or abbreviated title of the journal (in accordance, in this case, with the rules of a commonly used database).
• Appendices (list on the contents page).
• Programs: attach electronic files to the inside cover.
• Voluminous supporting material should be separated from the text and attached to the inside cover, or presented in an additional folder or as a separate volume.

Cover guidelines