Before making your selection, you should read the rest of this guide, noting the project sets, the combinations of sets that are not permitted, and reading project descriptions of interest (including any pre-requisite modules).

Projects may be chosen from any subject area, regardless of your Engineering Area(s), with the exception that students specialising in Civil Engineering must take either both GD1 and GD2 or one of these projects together with any language project. In either case, one of GD1 or GD2 must be your first choice. These are the only options due to the special timetabling constraints of these two projects (see project descriptions above).

Students interested in taking a Language project should attend an information session in the Centre for Languages and Inter-Communication (see Key dates) or have spoken to someone from CLIC.

Students must have finished entering their preferences near the start of the Lent Term (see Key dates above), immediately after COMET closes. These should be entered, in order, for exactly five projects (except for civil engineering students who only need to choose two or three), satisfying the following rules:

1. Some projects have pre-requisites (e.g. useful or essential IIA modules): it is your responsibility to check the project descriptions, and only to select projects for which you will have taken the pre-requisites. Your module choices are NOT checked automatically on COMET by the project allocation programme.
2. Your 1st and 2nd preferences must include at least one Group project, and one Design project (many are both). Your preferences overall must include at least 3 Group and at least 3 Design projects.
3. Projects are in sets (P1, P2 etc) with each set having a fixed timetable; projects should be chosen from different sets as far as possible (in most cases, two of your five choices will need to come from the same set, but your first and second choices must be from different sets). Certain other combinations of sets and projects are also excluded (for timetable and other reasons).
4. You are only allowed to select a maximum of two projects from the list of those which are very over-subscribed (currently GA2, GB3, GF2, GG3, GM2 and SF3).