Benefit to Industry
Industrial dissertations offer an opportunity for the industry where students work on problems defined by the industry itself. Industries can propose topics they wish to explore or solve within a limited time frame. This collaboration provides a chance to co-develop skills with the students and their academic supervisors, tapping into sought-after talents early in the process, and evaluating them over an extended period. It also helps build brand recognition and increases industry visibility among students.
Timeline
The timeline for the projects is as follows.
Key dates
- 26th of January: Project Proposal Deadline
- 1st of March: Start of the allocation process
- 22nd of March: Allocation completed
- 22nd of April: Start of the project
- 12th of August: End of the project
- 13th of August: Poster event
How It’s Organised
Project topics are provided by the industry and supervised jointly with a designated person from the industry, along with an academic supervisor from the school. The industry supervisor is responsible for monitoring regular progress, technology implementation, and other relevant aspects, while the academic supervisor ensures the fulfilment of degree requirements. It is expected that there will be a minimum of one weekly meeting between the student and the industrial supervisor and a monthly meeting with the academic supervisor.
Industry Partner Contributions
Where possible, it is hoped that the industry pays the student directly with a monthly stipend. Alternatively, we expect students to receive coverage for relevant expenses, such as travel to company locations, if they are not directly compensated.
Industry Commitment
Industries need to ensure the quality of the project to meet degree requirements. They should also provide the required dataset where applicable, computing infrastructure, office space, and a designated person to serve as the named industrial supervisor.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property, or ‘IP’, is a broad term that covers various categories of intellectual creations and assets. Such creative outputs can be as varied as publications, inventions, and artworks.
Although many creative outputs are classed as IP, technical expertise (however specialised) and general knowledge are typically excluded.
Newcastle University students (as a general principle) own the intellectual property that they generate, whether or not it arises in connection with their studies.
If an external organisation wishes to possess the IP of the work, this needs to be drawn up between the student and the organisation. This can be done using an Assignment of Intellectual Property to transfer ownership of intellectual property rights from one party to another.
Newcastle University cannot advise individual students on how to handle their own IP as this could result in a conflict of interest for the university.
The UK Intellectual Property Office is a good source of background information and training materials relating to IP.
Propose a project
To propose a Data Science project, please complete the Project Sign-up Form or send a short description of your project to computing.datascience@newcastle.ac.uk.
Contact for further information
For more information on how to involve your organisation with the School of Computing, please contact the director of business, skills, and innovation, Deepayan Bhowmik at deepayan.bhowmik@newcastle.ac.uk.