Do you have project(s) that you never seem to have the time for?

Could you work with final year undergraduate students who are studying Computer Science at City to complete your project while providing valuable industry experience that will propel their career?

City, University of London are currently accepting proposals for projects which undergraduate students on Computer Science courses can complete for their final year dissertation project! You can learn more about the course and what it covers on our website.

We want to hear from employers and organisations who are passionate about working with students to boost their employability. As a project partner, you would need to be able to support and work with our students to complete an industry project from December 2023 to April 2024. We are looking for industry partners who can submit project proposals by 31 October 2023, 9am BST so we can review and share these with our students.

What type of projects are we looking for?

All projects students complete must deliver something of value to identifiable beneficiaries such that you can identify their requirements. As a result, for a project to be acceptable, it must produce outputs of one or more types typically from the following list:

• A software prototype to be used by someone other than the student;
• A working software system to be used by someone (e.g. a client);
• A specification and/or design of a system for a client;
• An evaluation of a working software or computer system, for a client;
• A software development methodology or component of a methodology (e. g. a process or technique), for use by a client or to be developed further by researchers;
• A detailed scientific result (e.g. from an experiment or study) to be used by a named academic researcher or a client.

Please note that the results of general surveys, literature reviews, business guidelines and discussion documents are not sufficient as primary project outcomes. Any project that produces mostly these invalid outputs will not be accepted under this initiative. For projects to be accepted they MUST have a substantial programming element

Key Project Considerations

We are looking software development/programming projects for our students that takes into account the following.

• Students will complete projects between Jan 2024 and April 2024 (project delivery period). 
• You must submit your project proposals by 31 October 2023, 9am BST. This is to allow sufficient time for us to review suitable projects and organise meeting and follow-up discussions between you and our student(s).
• Students will need to have the project approved by one of our academic staff member before they can start working on it.
• You must be able to provide feedback to the students on their work and respond to us at the end of the project delivery period about their involvement in the project.
• Students are therefore required to write a report and produce a short video describing the project and the efforts involved. These will need to be submitted to us (City, University of London). Students work towards these deliverables so that they can be assessed accordingly by the university
• Under this initiative, we are looking for projects for students to work on as part of their core course curriculum. Students will work on these projects individually (NOT in groups) and they will be assessed against strict assessment criteria, as well as, things like their project management and organisational skills.
• Intellectual property arrangements surrounding your project(s) can be agreed between you and the student in advance, using appropriate NDA agreements.
• You can request for the projects to be kept confidential, in which case their contents will be seen by the module team, the corresponding project markers, moderators and external examiners only. This includes the written report and the corresponding code generated.

As a project owner, you will be required to give formal consent to students working on the project, state how you are going to use the project output in your organisation, declare what resources you are making available to the student, and provide a key point of contact for the student and us to liaise with. In addition, our assessors will be looking for evidence of how students have complied with your organisation’s standards and practises in the project delivery process.