CN6000 Mental Wealth (Final Year Project) Course Handbook 2026-27 | UEL

CN6000 Mental Wealth (Final Year Project) Course Handbook

Introduction to the Course

This guide provides a detailed overview of final year undergraduate computing projects within the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE). All final year project students on computing-based programmes within ACE should read this study guide and follow the guidelines contained herein.

The final year project is the single most important element of your degree programme, requiring you to solve a significant problem within the area of computing. The project will allow you to apply a range of skills that you have acquired over the course of your degree programme and enable you to demonstrate your competence as a computing professional.

The project is intended as an opportunity for you to demonstrate your problem-solving skills, and it must therefore include a substantial amount of computing/scientific/engineering content. Your project should involve elements such as software or application development, mathematical modelling, empirical investigation or other scientific or engineering methodologies related to the area of computing.

The content of projects will vary from one student to another, although projects will typically include an analysis of a software and/or hardware-related problem, followed by the design, implementation, testing, validation and evaluation of a solution to the analysed problem.

This study guide will also highlight the key deadlines and milestones that you must meet during your final year project.

Course Operation and Student Registration

The teaching of this module will be delivered by a series of lectures. However, the bulk of your learning will take place independently as you undertake the various tasks associated with your project. Throughout this process of independent learning, you will be supported by your project supervisor, an academic member of staff.

Lecture sessions will take place during term 1 (with a few lectures in term 2) and will provide you with the knowledge required to deliver a successful final year project. These sessions will last for a maximum of 2 hours per week.

The first step of the project is for you to choose a supervisor who will support you during the duration of the project (see Section 7). You are encouraged to find a supervisor who offers a project proposal or whose expertise matches your interests. Please note that staff have finite capacity and therefore the module leader cannot guarantee that you will be allocated your choice of supervisor. The allocation of supervisors is a first-come, first-served process, and so the sooner you contact a particular member of staff, the more likely you are to be allocated that member of staff.

Extensive use of both Moodle and Microsoft Teams will be made during this module. The Moodle site will contain a variety of information and resources, including teaching and learning materials, details of important events and deadlines. Teams will be used for the purposes of communication. Staff will use Teams to make announcements and to keep you abreast of important developments. You should use Teams to contact staff and to post any questions you have about the operation of this module. For the above reasons, you must check both Moodle and Teams regularly. The majority of your time on this module will be spent in private study. You are expected to use this private study time to review the lecture material, carry out the suggested reading for that week, and prepare for practicals as instructed.

Your personal information is stored on your own UEL Direct account, and it includes your name, date of birth, term-time contact address, home address and email/phone contact details. You must keep this information up to date. You can change your personal information at any time at UEL Direct. If you need to change your name or date of birth, you will need to show original documents showing the correct name. Please visit either of the Student Support Hubs with the correct documents for amendments.

At present, you can use UEL Direct to:

• Check which modules you are registered for.
• Update student address details;
• View assessment results;
• Module results and progression decisions.

Course Management

You can access all your Moodle and Teams sites via UEL’s TrackMyFuture portal: https://trackmyfuture.uel.ac.uk

You can also directly access your CN7039 Moodle site by going to the following link:

https://moodle.uel.ac.uk/user/index.php?id=83110

The Moodle site will contain a variety of information and resources, including teaching and learning materials (links to reading, lecture slides, lab exercises, etc), a calendar of important events and coursework deadlines and important news regarding the operation of this module.

You should check Moodle regularly!

As mentioned above, your lab/lecture sessions will be a rotation of online sessions and face- to-face on campus sessions. Microsoft Teams will be used to allow you to interact with these sessions online.

It is strongly advised that, if you come to campus for your lab sessions, you still bring a set of headphones with you in order to communicate with and allow your tutor to take control of your machine in Microsoft Teams if need be.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

You must achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module. The module is entirely assessed by the coursework tasks, which are therefore worth a total of 100% of the overall assessment for this module. The coursework will consist of 6 tasks (total 100 marks) set during the practical labs each week that test your formal modelling, testing and programming skills.

At the end of this module, students will be able to:

Knowledge

• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the subject area to which their project relates (IC) (CI)

Thinking skills

• Critically reflect upon the ethical, legal, and social considerations of a chosen project topic (IC) (CI) (SEI) (COI)
• Evaluate both the research of others and their own project work (CI) (COI)

Subject-based practical skills

• Analyse the problem domain to which the project relates and present that analysis in the form of a literature review (IC) (CI)
• Specify, design and implement a solution to a non-trivial computing problem using industry-standard methodologies, tools and techniques (DP) (IC) (CC) (EE)

Skills for life and work (general skills)

• Defend their work using both verbal and non-verbal communication channels (DP) (SEI)
• Demonstrate an ability to organise, manage, and document a sizeable piece of independent academic work (DP) (SEI) (PI)
• Provide feedback to mentees and peers (SEI) (CC)
• Produce meaningful and realistic career goals and pathways for achieving this (IC, CC, EE)

We strongly suggest that you try to submit all coursework by the deadline set, as meeting deadlines is expected in employment. However, in our regulations, UEL has permitted students to be able to submit their coursework up to 24 hours after the deadline. Coursework, which is submitted late but within 24 hours of the deadline, will be assessed, but subject to a fixed penalty.

Please note that if you submit twice, once before the deadline and once during the 24-hour late period, then the second submission will be marked and the fixed penalty applied. This rule only applies to coursework. It does not apply to examinations, presentations, performances, practical assessments or viva voce examinations. If you miss these for a genuine reason, then you will need to apply for extenuating circumstances, or accept that you will receive a zero mark.

As well as this, summative assessment (i.e. assessment that counts towards your final module mark), there will also be regular in-class quizzes to provide you with feedback in the form of formative assessment (i.e. assessment that does not count towards your final module mark).

Problems Completing an Assessment

You may be in a position where you cannot submit your coursework or take an exam due to circumstances that are:

• Unforeseeable - in that you could have no prior knowledge of the event concerned, and
• Unpreventable - in that you could do nothing reasonably in your power to prevent such an event, and
• Expected to have a serious impact on performance.

More information on support available to you can be found via the mitigation webpages and the Students' Union.

Appendices:

Appendix A – Module Specification

Module Specification

Summary of module for applicants:

• Developing professional skills is increasingly critical for successful graduate-level employment, entrepreneurship and career progression in the 4th industrial revolution.
• This module will provide students with the opportunity to apply the full range of skills, competencies and experience required for successful development to, and in, a range of potential future career areas.
• Herein, they will advance the areas identified at level 5 for their own personal professional development (including emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive intelligences) through taught and workshop activities.
• Students will undertake a sizeable piece of individual academic work in an area of their own interest relevant to, and demonstrating technical skills acquired in, their programme of study. Students will normally need to research one or more academic topic areas and then apply their findings to the construction of a computer-based system.
• Students will consider the ethical, legal, social, and professional issues in the construction of systems, and the project will require appropriate research, analysis, design, implementation, quality assurance, evaluation and project management.
• Students will reflect on the success of the strategies that they employed to further develop their reflective skills, self-awareness, ‘lifestyle’ and ‘self-care’ approaches and where necessary improve their approaches.
• Students will have the opportunity to select an in-house microbusiness to join in the role of ‘Manager’. In this position, they will oversee the successful operation of the enterprise, coach and mentor students new to the programme. Working collaboratively with peers and academic staff, they will ensure the effective delivery of a live project by managing people and physical resources. In doing so, they will apply the skills learnt elsewhere in their studies (and from external activities) required in the workplace.

Main Topics of Study:

The module will enable students to apply and develop a variety of skills based competencies explored at level 5, including: self-awareness and regulation; mindfulness; emotional resilience; motivation; ethical decision-making; active listening; self-discipline and management; attention; reaction and response time; cognitive and muscle memory; managing stress; physical resilience; subject knowledge; cognitive flexibility; managing an audience; co-ordinating with others, negotiation; creativity; leadership and entrepreneurship; service orientation; critical thinking; complex problem solving; research synthesis and analysis.

Students cover the following topics by applying their knowledge and understanding of them to their chosen project:

• Identification of a suitable project topic
• Research methods
• Literature surveys, searches and reviews
• Plagiarism and referencing
• Project planning, monitoring, risk assessment and control
• Academic writing and presentation skills
• The development, to a professional standard, of a large, non-trivial computer-based system or the critical evaluation of a recent development in the field of computing
• The documentation, to a professional standard, of a significant, problem-focused computing task, including the study of the application domain, a detailed analysis of the problem and a solution to the problem.

This module will be able to demonstrate at least one of the following examples/ exposures

• Live, applied project ☒
• Company/engagement visits ☒
• Company/industry sector endorsement/badging/sponsorship/award 

Learning Outcomes for the module

• Digital Proficiency - Code = (DP)
• Industry Connections - Code = (IC)
• Social & Emotional Intelligence - Code = (SEI)
• Physical Intelligence - Code = (PI)
• Cultural Intelligence - Code = (CI)
• Community Connections & UEL Give Back- Code = (CC)
• Cognitive Intelligence– Code = (COI)
• Enterprise and Entrepreneurship - Code = (EE)

At the end of this module, students will be able to:

Knowledge

• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the subject area to which their project relates (IC) (CI)

Thinking skills

• Critically reflect upon the ethical, legal, and social considerations of a chosen project topic (IC) (CI) (SEI) (COI)
• Evaluate both the research of others and their own project work (CI) (COI)

Subject-based practical skills

• Analyse the problem domain to which the project relates and present that analysis in the form of a literature review (IC) (CI)
• Specify, design and implement a solution to a non-trivial computing problem using industry- standard methodologies, tools and techniques (DP) (IC) (CC) (EE)

Skills for life and work (general skills)

• Defend their work using both verbal and non-verbal communication channels (DP) (SEI)
• Demonstrate an ability to organise, manage, and document a sizeable piece of independent academic work (DP) (SEI) (PI)
• Provide feedback to mentees and peers (SEI) (CC)
• Produce meaningful and realistic career goals and pathways for achieving this (IC, CC, EE)

Teaching/ learning methods/strategies used to enable the achievement of learning outcomes: For on-campus students:

Lectures will be used to provide an overview of the project, its requirements and organisation and an
introduction to research methods, literature surveys and referencing. In addition, every student will be allocated a supervisor at an early stage within the module. The supervisor will support the student for the duration of the project. Feedback will be provided throughout the module in the form of both formative and summative work.

Reading and resources for the module:

Core

• Dawson, C. W. (2015). Projects in Computing and Information Systems: A Student’s Guide. 3rd ed. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education.

Recommended

• Cottrell, S. (2017) Critical Thinking Skills: Effective Analysis, Argument and Reflection. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Denzin, N. K. and Lincoln, Y. S. (2013). The Landscape of Qualitative Research. 4th ed. London: SAGE.
• Murray, N. and Hughes, G. (2008) Writing Up Your University Assignments and Research Projects: A Practical Handbook. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press
• Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Live, applied project - the core of this module is to develop a substantial practical project that must
be ‘problem-focussed’, i.e., applied to the solution of a real-world problem.

Company/engagement visits - employers will be invited to attend an end-of-project showcase event, and a significant number of projects are client-based, i.e., involve the development and delivery of systems and/or software for businesses and organisations.

Company/industry sector endorsement/badging/sponsorship/award. The British Computer Society awards an annual prize to the best project as judged by the staff responsible for delivering this module.