[Academic] PH450/550 Projects Request for Information

[Daniel Oi]

Dear All,

The Teaching Committee (TC) is revising how we will conduct next year's 4th and 5th Year projects. We need to consider how current and ongoing circumstances will affect their definition, running, and assessment. Before we issue new guidance, we invite Supervisors to comment on how they may modify the projects they offer in light of the following assumptions:

  *   Experimental projects may become difficult if not impossible due to restricted access to labs;
  *   Access to other on-site facilities, such as computational resources, could also be restricted, hence provision for remote access will need to be considered;
  *   In-person meetings, such as supervisions, may also be restricted;
  *   The amount of independent work we can expect from students on a topic may need to be reduced to provide a more consistent experience across projects, considering the impacts of the above.

If a project that you would have run under normal circumstances is particularly impacted by the above conditions, please indicate whether modifications are possible so that:

  *   it could conducted without student lab/on-site access;
  *   the project could be effectively managed and delivered remotely;
  *   review and analysis of existing literature could be accentuated in the scope of the project.

For experimental projects in particular, what scope is there for experimentally relevant project work without requiring lab access (e.g. modelling, planning/design, data analysis etc.)?

Please send me comments by the end of next week (10th July 2020) so that we can issue guidance on the running of the projects as well as request that supervisors send revised Project Descriptors for all projects.

Thanks,
Daniel, PH450 Project Coordinator
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