For further information, contact Dr. Kees van Deemter.
Collaborative Projects are joint research projects carried out by the university and a company, typically with some financial contribution from the UK government or the EU. Current collaborative projects include Conoise-G, SumTime, and SkillSum.
Contract Research and Consulting activities are efforts which are completely paid for by a company. Current consulting clients include Weathernews (UK) and Calico Jack.
Teaching Company Schemes are government-subsidised schemes to transfer technology from universities to companies. We have done one TCS, with Hughes-Christensen, this is now complete.
Please see the Information for Employers section of the University's Careers and Appointments Service. Job announcements should be sent to the Careers and Appointments service, not to the Computing Science Department. Potential employers should remember that:
Undergraduate and MSc students are required to do projects as part of their degrees. Projects can be on topics suggested by companies, provided that they have sufficient computing content to satisfy the degree requirements. In general, the most successful projects tend to be those where the student builds a prototype or concept-demonstration system. Undergraduate projects are proposed in August of each year, and carried out (on a part-time basis) from October through April.
MSc projects are proposed in April of each year, and carried out from June through August. Projects are supervised by Aberdeen University lecturing staff, although we expect that company staff will spend a modest amount of time explaining the problem and providing feedback. We also expect that the company will provide any necessary data.
Project work is carried out at Aberdeen University, although visits can be made to the company as necessary. Companies are expected to reimburse any travel costs. Otherwise, there is no cost to the company.
We encourage people from local companies to consider our MSc in Advanced Computer Science. This can be done as a complete year-long course, it is also possible to just participate in one or two modules through the University's Continuing Professional Development programme.
People from local companies can sometimes take single modules under the University's Continuing Education programme. This is subject to the approval of the lecturer who teaches the module in question.
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
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