School of Engineering and Computer Science

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.

• Software usability testing pdf
• Testing information sheet and consent form templates for individual user tests in docx

Health and Safety Documents

• ECS_Project_Information Form.docx: ECS Project Information Form - for H&S
• Project Description and Safety Plan.docx: Project Description and Safety Form
• Project Safety Plan Example.docx: Project Safety Plan Example

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

• The Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering
• Design Options for Long-lasting, Efficient and Open Hardware and Software

LaTex Resources

• LaTeX for Beginners
• MiKTeX: LaTeX distribution for Windows systems
• The Not so Short Introduction to LaTeX
• A Computer Scientist's Guide to Writing and Publishing Technical Articles
• A Wikibook in LaTeX
• Some advice on typesetting equations using LaTeX

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.