COVID-19 Contingency Plan
The course involves design, development and evaluation of a capstone project. In most of the cases this would be an individual project and require interactions with staff members / industry partners / other participants such as volunteers for evaluation. Given this distinct nature of the course as compared to lecture-based courses, listed below are the components which may require in-person attendance. For some of these we have alternative plans in place; for other components, your supervisor and you need to identify contingency plans for any COVID related complications:a) Lectures
- The course includes a few lectures scattered over the 2 Trimesters (mostly in the Trimester 1) to guide you through the course expectations and process.
- These will be delivered in person, streamed live over Zoom and recorded.
b) Project Requirements
- Some projects may require resources which are available only at the University (e.g. some ECEN/ EEEN based projects) .
- You need to meet with your supervisor to work through a COVID contingency plan for such projects.
c) Weekly meetings
- In most cases, these could be conducted over Zoom if necessary. Contact your supervisors to work on a possible plan.
d) Mid-year presentation to your supervisor
- In most cases, these could be conducted over Zoom if necessary.
e) Project Evaluation
- If you plan to employ volunteers for your project evaluation and require them to be present in-person (e.g. for evaluation of user experience of a VR project), you should have a contingency plan in place for a situation where you may not be able to proceed with in-person evaluations.
f) Final presentation
- If possible, we will do all the final presentations in-person, possibly with reduced audiences to fit within lecture room capacities. In the worst case scenario, we will conduct the final presentations over Zoom.
In case of any questions / doubts contact the Course coordinator.