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<div class="">Dear MSc project supervisors,</div>
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<div class="">This is just a reminder that the MSc projects started last week. Below you can find the message that was sent to the students last Monday.</div>
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<div class="">Students are asked to submit a Project Brief by next Monday 21 June. This is a summary of the final plan for their MSc project. It is not marked, but it serves as a record of what was agreed at the start of the project.</div>
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<div class="">The marks and feedback for the ELEC6259 Poster and Project Plan have been released. If there has been no change to the scope of the project, you can just ask your students to summarise their ELEC6259 Project Plan and submit this as the COMP6200
Project Brief.</div>
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<div class="">All information is on the COMP6200 Notes pages:</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
<div class="">Maurits & Oli</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Start
of MSc Project</b><br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">7
June 2021 at 17:20:50 BST<br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maurits
de Planque <<a href="mailto:m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk" class="">m.deplanque@soton.ac.uk</a>><br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oliver
Bills <<a href="mailto:O.Bills@soton.ac.uk" class="">O.Bills@soton.ac.uk</a>>, School of Electronics and Computer Science Student Office <<a href="mailto:ecs-studentoffice@soton.ac.uk" class="">ecs-studentoffice@soton.ac.uk</a>><br class="">
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<div class="">Dear MSc students,</div>
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<div class="">You have now all completed your exams, and we very much hope that these went well. Most of you have also finished your ELEC6259 poster peer-assessment exercise. If you have not done so already, please submit this peer-assessment in the coming
days.</div>
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<div class="">Your lecturers are currently marking all your work, and all these marks then have to be checked. The release of the semester 2 marks is <u class="">Thursday 8 July</u>.</div>
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<div class="">The MSc Project started <u class="">today</u>, <span class="">Monday 7 June</span>. You can find the schedule and other useful information here:</div>
<div class=""><a href="https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/" class="">https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/</a></div>
<div class=""><b class="">*Please read this carefully*</b></div>
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<div class="">We would like to highlight the following:</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">1) Project management</b></div>
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<div class="">The supervision expectation is that there will be <u class="">weekly meetings</u>. Please arrange such meetings with your supervisor. Note that most supervisors are currently very busy with marking, so there may be a delay in their response. If
you have trouble contacting your supervisor, please tell your programme leader.</div>
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<div class="">The University is planning to make meeting rooms available on campus. The details are not known yet, but it may soon be possible to meet on campus in bookable rooms (rather than online in Teams etcetera).</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">2) Project Brief submission - Monday 21 June</b></div>
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<div class="">The <u class="">Project Brief</u> documents the final plan for your project, as agreed between you and your supervisor. You may have refined your research plan since you submitted the ELEC6259 Project Plan coursework, and your supervisor will
give feedback, so this Project Brief should present the <u class="">final plan</u> for your project. See the <a href="https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/" class="">Notes</a> pages for more detail.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">3) ECS facilities</b></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><span class="">ECS </span><a href="https://sotonproduction.service-now.com/serviceportal?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0063686" class="">remote computing services</a><span class=""> are described on the </span><a href="https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/" class="">Notes</a><span class=""> pages,
including the ECS GPU Service.</span></span></div>
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<div class="">The <a href="https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/hardware-projects-laboratory" class=""><span class="">B16 project</span> lab</a> is open for MSc projects involving hardware work. The <a href="https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software-projects-laboratory" class="">software
lab</a> on level 2 of B16 is available as study space for all ECS MSc students. You need an induction, and you have to book. More information is on the COMP6200 <a href="https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/" class="">Notes</a> pages.</div>
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<div class="">The B59 Workshop / MakerSpace can carry out mechanical work for your project.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">4) Project budget</b></div>
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<div class="">All students have a <u class="">budget of up to £200</u> which you can use for anything you directly require for your project, such as hardware items or software, with agreement from your supervisor.</div>
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<div class="">Normally everything has to be ordered through the University, but because the campus has not fully re-opened yet, the Finance department has agreed to an alternative procedure, which is described on the <a href="https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/comp6200/" class="">Notes</a> pages
("MSc Project Purchasing 20/21” link).</div>
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<div class="">For budgetting reasons, we request you to submit <u class="">reimbursement claims</u> by the <u class="">middle of July</u>. As this is about a month into the project, this timing is also sensible project management. It is fine to submit a second
claim, for any follow-on items, later in the summer.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">5) Second examiners</b></div>
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<div class="">We are working on the second examiner allocation. When this is announced, you could send your Project Brief to your second examiner to introduce yourself. However, there is no contact with the second examiner until the start of the demonstrations
(see the project schedule). </div>
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<div class=""><b class="">6) Any questions</b></div>
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<div class="">It is very important to <u class="">plan your project well</u>, and to stick to the execution of your plan. As it is a research project, you and your supervisor may well decide, after you have started your project work, to change the objectives
or the methodology somewhat. For all of this, <u class="">communication with your supervisor</u>, which includes regular meetings, is key.</div>
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<div class="">Your supervisor will be able to answer technical questions about your project. If you have any other concerns, please inform your tutor or your programme leader or the ECS senior tutors (<a href="mailto:stutor@ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">stutor@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>). </div>
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<div class="">Note that these University pages are still being updated:</div>
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<div class="">We wish you all the best for your MSc Project. Please do come to the campus to use the facilities, incl. general <a href="https://library.soton.ac.uk/studyspace" class="">study space</a>, and to meet your fellow students.</div>
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<div class="">Maurits de Planque - MSc Director of Programmes</div>
<div class="">Oliver Bills - MSc Project Coordinator</div>
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