This is a great place to pose the big question that interests your group.
Bottou, et al (1990) [1] wrote a cool paper which, as an example, could be the focus of your project, and this is a great place to talk about the prior work. They claimed that neural networks could be expressed as a modular architecture, and in this project you explore their claim in detail by implementing a new modular asdasd framework for creating neural networks that we call Torch. (Actually, Torch really was developed ten years after Bottou's paper to explore his ideas.)
[1] Léon Bottou and Patrick Gallinari. A framework for the cooperation of learning algorithms. Advances in neural information processing systems 3 (1990).
Here is who is on the team.