2021 Dates

November 2021 - February 2022
The students work in collaboration with the supervisors to study preliminaries necessary for their research and to choose a specific research topic (studying the state of the art and identifying a problem that has not been explored yet in the scientific literature).
March 2022
Two courses will be delivered for the students joining the programme:

MOOC on Being a Researcher, by Prof. Carlo Ghezzi, available on the Polimi Open Knowledge portal.

MOOC on Communication Skills for the Engineering Scholars, by Prof. Nicoletta Di Blas, available on the Polimi Open Knowledge portal.

March 2022
The students submit a document containing the description of the research project they aim at accomplishing together with a detailed state of the art. The project proposal will be presented by the students in front of a scientific committee. All the students that will not be in Italy can deliver the presentation by means of videoconference tools.
From April 2022 to graduation
The students will work on their research project in collaboration with the supervisors.
Around May 2022
The students present their research to a broad, non-technical audience, mainly consisting of fellow students.
2 months before graduation
The students must notify the HP committee (honoursprogramme-deib@polimi.it) about their intention to graduate.
1 month before graduation
The students must produce a conference paper describing the results of the research work. Furthermore, the students will be required to review the papers of the other students and to reply to the received reviews. Finally, the results described in the paper will be presented in front of a scientific committee.