The Student Project usually addresses the design or control of a device, process or production line that is based on general principles and aims at a more comprehensive understanding of how the engineer approaches the problems he/she will be faced with in practice. Because of its synthetic nature, the theoretical part of the Student Project has to be based on an adequatelevel of knowledge derived from a sufficient number of courses. The preparation of the Student Project marks the completion of the first cycle of study and the period of its preparation should be long before the diploma thesis is completed.