[Academic] PH450 and PH550 final project allocations

[Timothy Briggs]

Hello,

The 4th and 5th year project allocations are detailed in the attached spreadsheet.

The following was sent to project students yesterday re the literature review (due in by noon on the Friday 25th October):

"The first assigned task for students with new projects is the so-called literature review, due this year to be submitted before noon on Friday, 25th October (note the revised due date).

Essentially we (The Supervisors) are carrying out a 'sanity check' to establish that you can describe, in your own words, the following:

1) the physics involved in the project;

2) the current state-of-the-art of the topic area;

3) how you intend to make progress (i.e. what will you actually do to achieve your aims?)

and

4) how success will be measured.

I expect you to be able to do all this on a single sheet of A4, or less, with an additional sheet if required for important key references, some of which may already have been supplied to you in the project description. Since these are early days, the literature survey is not expected to be complete by any means. The review is not assessed as such. However it will usually form the basis of the first chapter of your Final Report, and is worth some thought and effort at this time. If you find anything unclear in these instructions, consult your supervisor or me.

Send your work, preferably as a pdf attachment in an email to k.p.odonnell at strath.ac.uk<mailto:k.p.odonnell at strath.ac.uk>, before the due date: noon on Friday, 25th October.

(You may find the following comments on last year's exercise to be helpful in preparing your report:

1) Rather few students (~20% of 50) thought to include the name of their supervisor in the heading. This is a requirement.

1b) A few students forgot to include their own names and/or a project title.

2) Students should try to avoid excessive use of jargon, vagueness of expression and woolly logic.

3) A surprising number of students don't know how to quote literature references in a standard format.

Points 2) and 3) should be addressed by PH355 Physics Skills.)

Kevin"
Timothy Briggs
Research and Teaching Support
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow, Glasgow G4 0NG
Tel: 0141 548 3376   Fax: 0141 552 2891   Mobile: 07970 968144   Email: mailto:timothy.briggs at strath.ac.uk

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