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ASE 2025 goals: do cool research, do not break the rover. Written down on white A4 paper

ASE2025 Project Page

Welcome to ASE! On this page, we have compiled the necessary information for you during the project. Check back regularly, as we will update it throughout.

Communication​

  • Technical Questions: reach out through Microsoft Teams, so that your domain expert, the ASE team and other students are kept in the loop.
  • Confidential Technical Questions: reach out through email: ase@vu.nl. This email is read by all members of the organizing team.
  • Questions About Research: reach out to your domain expert directly.
  • Private Questions: reach out to your domain expert directly.

The ASE team will reach out through Teams and email. There is no Canvas page for ASE.

Timeline​

The ASE team will provide technical support and office hours from April until June.

Meetings​

There will be a mandatory meeting every two weeks with your domain expert and the ASE team. This meeting will be in-person, in the ASE labs.

Presentations​

Research Question Presentation​

Towards the beginning of the project, you will share your research question to the group in a 5-minute presentation. Each presentation is individual since, even if you work in a group, you should have your own research question to focus on. You should summarize your literature review results and explain your research question and the next steps of your project.

The goal of this presentation is to solidify your research question and find possible room for improvement in your research proposal.

See how to give a bad talk and how to give a good talk.

There will be a mandatory presentation to describe your research questions on April 14th. This presentation is ungraded.

Time​

Make sure to be there at 10:50 so that we can get started with the first presentation at 11:00 sharp.

Location​

NU-4B17

Progress Presentation​

This is your chance to practice public speaking by presenting your progress so far. You will present in a group, where each presentation should be around 12 to 15 minutes.

Here the focus is on your presentation skills, making good slides, telling a well thought out story and engaging with the audience. The content is centered around the work you and your group have done.

See how to give a bad talk and how to give a good talk.

There will be a mandatory presentation to describe your progress on May 19th. This presentation is ungraded.

Final Presentation​

The final presentation will be held on June 26th. This presentation is graded.

Thesis​

Draft Submission​

Check back later.

Final Submission​

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Grading​

Your final grade is signed by your domain expert and their second reader, based on the Faculty of science rubric. You can find the 2025 regulations here.

The ASE team will keep student observations that your domain expert can use to aid grading.