Bachelor Graduation Project Electrical Engineering

The “Bachelor Graduation Project” (BAP) is a complex educational activity offering the students the possibility to materialise the knowledge and practical skills accumulated during the complete Bachelor curriculum in a design project in the area of Electrical Engineering. Students are expected to go in a structured and iterative manner through the complete design process:

• drawing up a set of requirements,

• concept analysis and design,

• concept selection,

• realisation and verification,

• reporting and delivery of the final design.

For stimulating an entrepreneurial spirit, the graduation project also requires the students to write a business plan describing how the technology can be transformed into some commercial product. In view of the prime importance of the societal awareness for the future engineers, the students will be also involved in an Ethics and technology module that will discuss responsibility, ethical theories, ethical dilemmas in companies, taking decisions in an environment of uncertainty, ethics and law etc. The module’s expected effect is to train students to think about their role as future engineers and be able to raise their voice and participate in moral debates in their future occupation.

As a baseline, the project is carried out in groups of 6 students – however projects specially tailored to groups of 4 or 2 students are also possible, under certain circumstances that are elaborated upon in the project’s Manual. The group’s task is approached concurrently by subgroups (in the majority of situations, 3 subgroups) that address specific aspects or components of the given assignment. Each subgroup is required to draw a thesis (one per subgroup) that must then be defended in front of a jury consisting of specialists in the area. Furthermore, the group is expected to deliver a concept demonstrator illustrating (be it partially) the functionality of the proposed design – the concept demonstrator can be general, cooperatively developed by the entire group, or be tailored to the task of a specific subgroup, as applicable.

The BAP is carried out, as a rule, in Q4 of the third year (the main entry point). Alternatively, the BAP can also be effectuated in Q1/2 (the alternative entry point). The two variants have different entry requirements, as elaborated upon at “Expected prior knowledge”.