Call for Project Offers

Call for Project Offers#

Important

This page was for 2024/25 academic year and is archived for reference. The deadlines and procedures described here have expired and may change for future academic years.

Important

The call to offer projects is now closed. Please contact the IRP Team directly to discuss if and how we can include your project in the list of available projects.

For supervisors only!

Only potential supervisors can offer a project. If you are a student, and you want to propose a project you would like to work on, check the archive/project-proposal page.

If you would like to work with and supervise MSc students in the Ada Lovelace Academy at Imperial College London over the summer of 2025, we invite you to offer projects. The Independent Research Project will take place from 26 May to 29 August 2025. We are happy to consider project offers from academics and professionals at any company or university.

The projects can come from different fields. For instance, in previous years, our students worked on computational research and commercial projects in environmental science, geoscience and engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, healthcare, finance, computer science, climate modelling, fundamental ML/AI, and many others. However, all projects must be computational and include a substantial coding component to address a relevant research question or tackle a commercial challenge. Specifically, a student is expected to:

  • develop a simulation or data analysis code from scratch,

  • substantially extend the capabilities of an existing code, or

  • build a model to analyse and interpret a substantial dataset.

Normally, we discourage projects that expect students to run already existing simulation codes to generate results without developing any new code to either extend its functionality or to analyse a substantial dataset. We also suggest referring to the Final Report and Code for an overview of what markers will be evaluating.

Note

For the ACSE and EDSML MSc courses, the projects can come from any field. On the other hand, for the GEMS MSc course, the project must address a geoscience and engineering problem.

To help projects generate publishable work and to expose students to a collaborative environment, we encourage projects that involve multiple students working on individual parts or aspects of a larger project. In addition, we welcome the submissions of past projects or their variations.

Each student will have two supervisors: main supervisor and second supervisor. At least one supervisor must be a staff member in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. For more information on supervision, see supervision.

Tip

To offer a project, you don’t need a second supervisor. If we match your project to one of our students, the IRP Team will help assign the second supervisor.

📝 Project offer form 🌟

To offer a project, fill out the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/aBUXTcv79m

The link above allows you to submit one project at a time - you can fill it out more than once to submit multiple project offers.

Warning

The deadline is 31 January 2025 10 February 2025.

If you need more time to offer a project, please contact us to discuss if and how we can extend the deadline or advertise your project to our students later.

To help students make an informed decision on the projects they would like to work on, we ask you to submit a concise (maximum 300 words) project description and cover as much of the following information as you can:

  1. Problem description: Clearly state the problem the student will address, emphasising its importance and relevance. Provide context to demonstrate why solving this problem is important to the research community or the company.

  2. Computational methodology (and data): Outline the computational methods the student will consider/employ to tackle the problem. Please explain if any datasets will be used. The methodology is expected to demonstrate that the student will develop the simulation or data analysis code from scratch, substantially extend the capabilities of an existing code, or build a model to analyse and interpret a substantial dataset.

  3. Expected deliverables: Define the expected outcomes or deliverables expected from the project.

Tip

Projects evolve, and we recognize that not all details can be defined upfront or explained in less than 300 words. Please note that projects can diverge or grow beyond its initial description. Project offers should provide sufficient information to help students make an informed decision.

Soon after the deadline, we will advertise your projects to our students so they can select the ones they want to work on. For external projects (the main supervisor is not affiliated with the ESE Department), we will shortlist interested candidates and ask them to apply to the main supervisors directly by sending their CVs and motivation letters. Only if the external supervisor selects the student(s) will we allocate them to the project. For internal projects, the IRP Team matches students with projects.

If you know of a potential supervisor who could offer a project, please forward this page to them or share their contact details with us so we can approach them directly.

Hint

Contact If you require any information or assistance, please get in touch with the IRP Team (ese-msc-irp-EA@groups.imperial.ac.uk) or Marijan Beg (m.beg@imperial.ac.uk).