Handbook
The Course Handbook is the guide to the course. It contains the details of what is expected of students in their Honors project. The Handbook will be made available
here once it is ready.
Ethics
The university has a
Human Ethics Committee that governs research and teaching with people as participants. If you plan to do any structured work involving people you need to comply with the policies and guidelines.
Applications are made in ResearchMaster<
https://rme.wgtn.ac.nz/> using your VUW credentials (not ECS). If you still do not have access, then download the
Access to Ethics Online Applications form (Word), complete the details and email it to
ResearchMaster-Help@vuw.ac.nz or
ethicsadmin@vuw.ac.nz
ECS has approval for Usability Testing across a range of 300- and 400-level courses from 2021 to 2024 inclusive. Any usability testing under this approval must meet all the conditions in the application, and used the approved information sheet. If you wish to do more extensive testing, conduct surveys, interact with children, recruit external participants, implant electrodes, or publish your results outside the project, you will need to make your own application to the committee.
Health and Safety Documents
Report Templates
Proposal:
Word and
LaTex
Report (Preliminary):
Word and
Latex templates
Report (Final):
Word and
Latex templates
Note: If you're working from home (or anywhere other than a Linux machine on the ECS network) refer to
https://ecs.wgtn.ac.nz/Main/ProjectTemplates for details on the setup requirements.
Marking Rubric
Preliminary Report
Final Report
Written communication (applicable to both preliminary and final reports)
IP Agreements
Industry Project IP agreement
ENGR 489 External collaboration agreement -
Industry / External
Standard Student IP Agreement
Student IP agreement -
Internal
Please consult your supervisor before signing this agreement. Your supervisor will have to witness the agreement.
Sustainability in Hardware and Software Development
LaTex Resources
Example Reports
We have a
small collection of sample final and preliminary reports that past students have made available. These are all good exemplars of high-quality reports.
