The expected workload for your Final Project is approximately 75 hours. This includes individual study and tutoring sessions offered by the faculty member who has suggested the topic for your technical report. You must contact a faculty member who teaches a third-year course of your Bachelor’s degree programme and ask him/her a topic for your technical report.
Upon completion of your technical report, you must submit it to the Board of Examiners of the course and make a short oral presentation during which you need to prove your analytical skills as well as your ability to be concise and present your ideas. The Board of Examiners will evaluate your work and give you a grade (out of 30) which will be sent to the Graduation Examining Committee. Your final grade is determined by the Graduation Examining Committee which evaluates the overall average of the exams on a 110 basis minus the 16 worst credits. This number is proportionally reduced if some of your exams have been validated without a grade, or in the case of credit transfer (only the exams taken at Politecnico count towards the calculation of the average grade).
As a general rule, the Graduation Examining Committee can add up to a
maximum of 5 points, taking into consideration:
- the evaluation of your technical report;
- the number of years it took you to complete your studies;
- if you have attended a degree programme partially or entirely taught in English;
- other information about your course of study (for instance, the number of exams passed with honours, your experiences abroad, your extracurricular activities etc.).
More information is available in this chapter.
You may be awarded a degree with honours (cum laude) in accordance with the Regulations of your degree programme.The Graduation Examining Committee will determine your final grade taking into consideration your overall participation in the programme, your cultural maturity and intellectual competence.