COMP40780 Digital Investigation Project

Academic Year 2019/2020

This module is a research and development project on a topic related to digital investigation and forensic computing. The students will be asked to either take an individual project or join one of several pre-defined team projects. A team will be led by a lecturer or a researcher associated with the course and will tackle a substantial R&D task. (Please the number of researcher lead teams is usually small and we do not guarantee a place on a team for every student. If you are not chosen for a team you will have to pick and individual project).

Following several introductory lectures in January-February, each project (team-based or individual) will be requested to produce detailed project objectives and a project plan including milestones and (where appropriate) task allocations to specific team members. The progress of each individual will be monitored through three project milestones spaced through a March-July timeframe.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this module students should have demonstrated the ability to

* Identify a research topic and conduct literature survey (Milestone 1),
* develop novel ideas -- e.g. in the form of novel techniques, tools, policies, etc. as appropriate to the chosen topic (Milestone 2),
* objectively evaluate / explore the developed ideas / techniques / tools (Milestone 3)
* convey the results of the research and development work to colleagues in the form of a written research article (Milestone 4).

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

4
Specified Learning Activities

4
Autonomous Student Learning

594
Total

602
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
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Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Presentation: Milestone 1: Literature Survey Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

25
Presentation: Milestone 2: Design and Implementation Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

25
Presentation: Milestone 3: Evaluation results Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

25
Assignment: Milestone 4: Research Paper Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

25

Carry forward of passed components
Not yet recorded
 

Not yet recorded
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
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Name Role
Dr Babak Habibnia Tutor