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Common to the Bachelor's project, the R&D projects and the Master's thesis is that it is your own research projects that develop new knowledge. All projects can be carried out in a research group at the university, or they can be carried out in a company supported by a university supervisor with scientific insight. If you want to carry out your project in a company, you must first make an agreement with a relevant university supervisor. Together with the supervisor you can identify relevant companies. We encourage all our students to have at least one project in a research group at the university and one project in collaboration with a company.
For inspiration for your projects, you can look at our brochure on projects at the Department of Engineering or speak with the research groups at the semi-annual project days. Once you have found an interesting research group, you can send the researcher an email or visit them in their office for an informal discussion about ideas and expectations.
Projects can be carried out in many ways; here are just a few examples of how this can be done in practice:
A purely experimental project, where the student, based on a prior literature review, addresses a problem through experimental work. "Experimental work" is understood in a broad sense, meaning it can involve work in a laboratory or workshop, as well as experiments conducted using a computer, such as simulations, modeling, etc. The project can be carried out either at the university or within a company.
A purely literature-based project. This can be done in several ways, so the following is just one example of this project type. The student is presented with a relevant academic topic by the supervisor. The student then finds literature that sheds light on the topic. The literature is critically reviewed, compared, and analyzed by the student. For example, one might compare and evaluate results from different studies that have used various technologies to address the same issue. Here, data from the different studies can be compared to identify trends and thereby generate new knowledge. Finally, the entire conclusion is presented in the bachelor project report, which in this case may resemble a review article.
