Graduation project

If you intend to leave the university with a BSc degree only, the project is the proof that you are ready for a career as a creative technologist in industry, practically oriented, and on an academic level. If you continue your education in an MSc program, the BSc project should also show you the challenges of doing more in depth research and stimulate you to deepen knowledge.

Chairs

Bachelor projects may be carried out in the university labs and/or with external partners. Students will do their projects under the common supervision of external and university experts. Typical contexts within the EWI faculty for such projects are in the following groups

·	HMI – Prof. Dr. A. Nijholt – playful interaction, ludic design, multimodal interfaces

·	Telemedicine – Prof. Dr. M.M.R. Vollenbroek-Hutten -- telemedicine and e-health, scenarios in virtual worlds

·	Database Group – Prof. Dr. P.M.G. Apers -- applications of data collection in sensor networks

·	Semiconductors – Prof. Dr. J. Schmitz -- animation of micro-chip production processes

The project

In the project you have to realize a design to improve the world of a ‘customer’. Business aspects, cost price and life-cycle issues will be important. The BSc project will cover the complete cycle of a design, including initiation, project planning, development, and possibly even deployment and marketing.

In connection with the Bachelor’s projects, you are stimulated to cooperate and assist each other, in order to achieve, within the time constraints imposed by the project, an optimal result, both in terms of external visibility as well as individual development. To support such cooperation, you can ‘hire’ expertise from another student. This expertise may be technological (to make the prototype), human or business-related. Students who are hired may thus earn a maximum of 5 credits out of 15 EC in the third year for their elective courses. It is the responsibility of the student doing the Bachelor’s project to arrange a clear ‘contract’ about the task of the student hired, and set the milestones. Assessment of the hired student is done jointly with the supervisor.

The thesis

Apart from the practical work, which preferably results in a prototype or proof-of-concept realization, students are expected to write a report, the Bachelor’s thesis, and present their work for fellow-students, project stakeholders, and supervising staff.