Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat
Domeniul: Informatica
Programul de studii: Modelare si simulare - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MIA1007	Research Project in Modeling and Simulation	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L+P	Category	Status	
4	0+0+3+0	complementary	compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
POP Horia Florin	Ph.D.	Prof.	Programming  Languages and Methods			*	

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
At the completion of this course, the student should:
- have documentation abilities on an established topic
- be able to design the table of contents of the dissertation
- know how to write a technical document (dissertation) in many iterations

IV. Course contents
The research project activity represents the individual work the student performs with the purpose to realize a scientific report 
on a given topic.
The steps to be covered are the following:
1. Establishing the research title/topic - due week 3
2. Bibliographical documentation - due week 6
3. Table of contents: version 1.0 - due week 7
4. Relevance of the bibliographical sources and their assignment to the designed structure - due week 9
5. Translation of selected documents and writing the paper - due week 14

V. Bibliography

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
Each of the activities above has a due date and a corresponding mark, on a 10-point scale. A penalty of 1pt per week are considered for delays. The weights are as follows:
1. title (10%)
2. documentation (20%)
3. contents v1.0 (10%)
4. assigning sources to structure (20%)
5. final version of the paper (40%)
The final grade is computed as an weighted average of the marks for individual activities.

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Prof. POP Horia Florin, Ph.D.