I notice the Final Year Project Selection Policy is quite strange. Some of my friends have the same feeling of me, which is when we choose our FYP, we can't know who is the supervisor of a particular project. The names are not shown in the online system. Never mind, I can share some of my experience of how to dig out the professor's name.
For our FYP, the purpose is not to follow someone's guideline. Instead, it is to follow our own interest. For myself, the purpose of digging out the professor's name is to check out if that professor can let me access lab instruments frequently, because in engineering instrument is a important part. So knowing the names is important. Here are the steps.
Firstly, know each professor's research interest. This is fairly easy. Just view their personal webpage. Usually their interests are listed there.
Secondly, know their current developing project. This is also easy. Just go to the department research page. All the current projects are there with the developer names.
Thirdly, talk with at least more than ten professors. This step takes some time. The trick is talk with the professor who is in charge of a research division first. Usually he or she can provide some overall information.
Lastly, compare all the information with the online project name and description. In this step, we can know some project's superior’s name, maybe four or five. Here is the trick, usually a professor uploads all his or her projects' name on a same day, and professors' writing styles are different. By comparing date and writing style we can locate at least more than ten projects' supervisor’s name.
I know that NUS doesn't like students to know some detail because of so call being "fair" to everyone. Unfortunately, as ancient Chinese said “there is no wall that is able to fully block wind”.
For our FYP, the purpose is not to follow someone's guideline. Instead, it is to follow our own interest. For myself, the purpose of digging out the professor's name is to check out if that professor can let me access lab instruments frequently, because in engineering instrument is a important part. So knowing the names is important. Here are the steps.
Firstly, know each professor's research interest. This is fairly easy. Just view their personal webpage. Usually their interests are listed there.
Secondly, know their current developing project. This is also easy. Just go to the department research page. All the current projects are there with the developer names.
Thirdly, talk with at least more than ten professors. This step takes some time. The trick is talk with the professor who is in charge of a research division first. Usually he or she can provide some overall information.
Lastly, compare all the information with the online project name and description. In this step, we can know some project's superior’s name, maybe four or five. Here is the trick, usually a professor uploads all his or her projects' name on a same day, and professors' writing styles are different. By comparing date and writing style we can locate at least more than ten projects' supervisor’s name.
I know that NUS doesn't like students to know some detail because of so call being "fair" to everyone. Unfortunately, as ancient Chinese said “there is no wall that is able to fully block wind”.
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I actually enjoyed reading through this posting.Many thanks.
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