University Calendar : Section VII
Academic Regulations 2006-7
School of Electronics & Computer Science
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Programme Regulations

Options and Projects
  1. The compulsory and optional modules for each year of each degree are given in the ECS programme specifications and student courses handbook. Some modules have pre-requisites and some modules are mutually exclusive. These are documented in the ECS module specifications. A printed copy of the latest version of these documents is kept in the Student Courses Office and can also be viewed electronically on the ECS website.

  2. Students must select their options for each semester of study before the start of the semester on or before the options deadline as notified by the Options Coordinator.

  3. It is the responsibility of each student to ensure that the combination of modules they have selected is valid and meets the requirements of their programme of study.

  4. Students may change their selection up to the end of week three of the semester.

  5. Exceptionally, it may be possible to drop a module up to the end of week six of the semester, but only in the first semester and providing it is also possible to select an additional module in the following semester.

  6. Completed options forms must be signed by the student and their personal tutor, senior tutor or course coordinator.

  7. The deadlines indicated above apply to the submission of a properly completed options form to the Student Courses Office.

  8. Most programmes include a project in their final and possibly penultimate year.

  9. Students must submit a completed project preferences form by the end of the semester before the start of the project, on or before the deadline as notified by the project coordinator so that a project supervisor can be allocated.
Course Regulations
  1. In addition to the Part II aggregate pass mark of 55%, all ECS MEng students must obtain a Part III aggregate mark of at least 52% before they can progress to Part IV of their degree.

  2. The individual third year project, and fourth year group design projects, are the core components of undergraduate programmes in ECS. These must be taken and passed with a minimum mark of 40% before any late penalty is applied.

  3. A project referral represents an opportunity for a student who has failed to achieve a 40% mark (before any late penalty) to perform a small amount of extra work on the original project and re-submit their report.

  4. A student undertaking a project resit must begin a new project. No work undertaken in pursuit of the original project may be considered during the assessment of the project.

  5. Due to requirements for supervision and likely demands on departmental resources, students opting to resit Part III externally will not resit their project, carrying forward the original project mark. For this reason an external resit cannot be used to remedy a failing project mark (ie: a mark of 39% or less before any late penalty). The same restriction also applies in Part IV to the group design project.

  6. When resitting a year of the degree, students are expected to take all modules again except that Part III students resitting externally must carry forward their project mark, and Part IV students resitting externally must carry forward their group project mark as noted above.

  7. MSc students can be compensated for up to 30 credits of failed modules based on their aggregate mark as follows: with 50% aggregate, up to 10 credits; with 55% aggregate, up to 20 credits; with 60% aggregate, up to 30 credits.


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Last reviewed: 17/10/06
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