UROP provides a unique opportunity for bright undergraduates to undertake research work under the supervision of experienced researchers. Through this apprenticeship in research, students learn to formulate questions, to evaluate claims and to do in-depth study in a topic in order to solve a problem whose solution is not previously known. These are all skills that are increasingly valuable in today's knowledge-based economy, making research training one of the best ways of achieving professional competence. In addition to achieving competence, many students find research so exhilarating that they continue on to doing postgraduate studies and research as a career.

In the School of Computing, UROP is a year long project, spread over two semesters, allowing ample opportunities to learn and do research in a substantial project. Students work closely with faculty members and their research groups in a wide range of computing research areas, often making valuable contributions to the groups' research. UROP is usually done in third year, allowing the students to earn two courses worth of credits. Furthermore, students can choose to do research on the same topic for their Honours Year Project, allowing substantial depth in research within their undergraduate education.

UROP provides a unique opportunity for bright undergraduates to undertake research work (and earn 8 MCs) under the supervision of experienced researchers. Many UROP students continue on to work with their UROP supervisors for their Honours and MSc/PhD research work.

On the other hand, a UROP project provides the faculty members a chance to work with some of our best undergraduates and to develop a longer-term research relationship with them.

A UROP project is a single research-oriented project to be done over the course of one year by one student. A student working on the UROP project takes a two-module (8 MCs) sequence spread over two semesters:

    CS3208: Undergraduate Research in Computing I
    CS3209: Undergraduate Research in Computing II 

UROP students are expected to do full-time research work during the vacation preceding each of the two semesters.

It is expected that the student will complete an initial research study on the project by the end of the vacation-plus-first-semester and will submit an interim progress report for CS3208.

The student will continue with the (same) project and complete it by the end of the following vacation-plus-second-semester. They will then submit a final project report for CS3209 similar in format to the one for CS4101. The UROP project presentation will also be conducted in the same period as CS4101.

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