MAKINGTHEMOSTOFYOURTIME.pptVIP

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TIME PROJECT CHOICE David R. Selviah Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University College London E-Mail: d.selviah@ee.ucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7679 3056 Fax: 020 7388 9325 Outline Introduction, Motivation The 3rd Year Project Choosing a Project Daily Activities Choosing a Subject Think of your own idea, Course Choices Choose your supervisor Define Project with Supervisor Academics Research Areas Resource Curriculum Vitae Checklist, Daily Activities Table Introduction The purpose of this talk is to provide you with a common tutorial experience about how to choose a project to challenge how you might otherwise have chosen a project and your decision making process to give you unified guidelines on how to write a curriculum vitae (CV) Into the Project In embarking on a project you will be stepping away from the educational world you know where All equations can be solved analytically A function is simple like a cosine or a Gaussian. You are told what is important. You are provided with comprehensive lecture notes which contain all the facts to solve the problem. You are told which books contain all the answers. Your tutor knows the way to solve the problem. You will be stepping into the real world where none of this is true. Into the Project The project guidelines are at http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~afernand/projects/3rd-Year/ProjGuideStudents.html Direct queries to the project co-ordinator :Dr Fernandez In the project You are in charge giving you freedom but responsibility You need to decide what is important You need to search for it or develop it. The supervisors job is not to tell you what to do next so don’t expect him to do that. It is your job to work out what to do next, knowing the goal to be achieved. Motivation You will be spending a fair amount of your time on the project. The project mark is substantial being worth 1/4 of the third year marks equivalent to 2 courses. However, it should also be considered that em