The Trend in Industrial Computing's Final Year Projects at School of Information Technology

Final year project for undergraduate student of Industrial Computing programme at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology is compulsory as a requirement for acquiring the Bachelor of Information Technology degree. Projects undertaken by these students are often related to their supervisor's research interest. There are six main areas of research (niche area) offered at the Industrial Computing programme. These areas are Information Technology for Industry, Modelling and Simulation, Scientific and Parallel Computing, Product Design, Quality Control, and Robotics and Automation. This paper presents the trend of final year projects based on data collected from year 2008 to 2011. Based on the data, we found that students are more likely to do project in a certain area of research. In addition, the availability of experts in some areas of research also has influence the number of projects in these areas.