Demonstration of Progress

You should demonstrate your progress to your supervisor and assessor before submission of the final project report. This procedure provides the opportunity for guidance on how best to present your work as well as serving to authenticate the final submission. It is essential that the project minimum requirements be agreed upon before or during this meeting.

As the time for the progress meeting approaches please inform your supervisor and assessor of your preferred dates/times. It will be your responsibility to make sure that any equipment you need will be available on the day of your demonstration, so you may need to discuss issues such as location with your supervisor in advance. Please check when the labs are booked. It is preferable to use School machnes. If you MUST bring in your own machine we need to electrically test it prior to use.

If you forsee a problem in meeting the deadline you MUST contact the project coordinator as soon as possible.

Your demonstration should be approximately 20 minutes in length. It should be a well prepared demonstration or presentation of work completed to date and may include software, even if incomplete. You might consider preparing handouts or providing your assessor with some written documentation such as a draft chapter, especially where there is no software deliverable. It would be useful to include a schedule for completion. There is no set format for the demonstration, except that normally the assessor and supervisor will save questions to the end. The format to be avoided at all costs is the one where everyone sits down and the student says to the assessor: "OK, what do you want to see?".

Bear in mind that your assessor has only read your mid-project report and that was several months earlier.