ECE FYP BRIEFING SEMESTER 1, 2014/2015AUDITORIUM B
KULLIYYAH of ENGINEERING
11th September 2014
AGENDA
FYP, what is it all about? Regulations Assessment Submission of reports Presentation
The Coordinators
COMM: Dr. Rosminazuin
CIE: Dr. Nor Farahidah
CIE: Prof. Aisha
COMM: Dr. Suriza Zabidi
FYP 1 Coordinators FYP 2 Coordinators
What is it all about?
Credit hours: 3. So, you are expected to work on your FYP at least 6 hours/week.
Development of research culture/attitude among students
Where is the FYP Proposals?
The FYP proposals can be downloaded at: It is a PDF file with a password. The
password is:
http://staff.iium.edu.my/adah510
PASSWORD: FYPS11415
Can I Submit My Own Proposals?
By default, it is discouraged but possible. You need to find potential supervisor and
discuss your proposals. Please follow the proposal template that can
be downloaded from the website
When to submit the registration form?
Start: Monday, 15 September 2014 Note: you need to talk with the supervisor
first, confirm, and obtain the password to register from your supervisor.
End: Thursday, 18 September 2014 How to submit?
Online at http://staff.iium.edu.my/adah510/ You, your supervisor, and FYP coordinators
will receive confirmation email. Please keep this email as a prove of registration.
Once you have review the titles and have an agreement with the supervisor, he/she will give you the password and you will be able to fill in the registration form
Can I Register?
You can use either Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail email account
Based on the list of titles, you must discuss and get approval/consent from your ‘future’ supervisor
Reminder: If you have committed to one project, please
notify your other choice of supervisors if you want to change to other project
Do not register twice or more. Please have the approval from your supervisor first.
Regulation
Final Year Project must be carried out by the student as a
partial fulfillment for the award of degree in Engineering
EAC (Engineering Accreditation Council) required that FYP should be conducted individually.
Regulation – FYP 1
The student should finalized selection of components, and get their purchase order signed from the head of department prior to buy any components. Each title will be allocated a budget of maximum RM500
Each student should purchase a log book to record his/her meetings with the supervisor. This log book can be purchased from the office of Student Affairs.
Before the event of Project I presentation, the project coordinator will check the frequency of
attendance /meeting with supervisor (from the log book) to decide whether the student is eligible to proceed with his/her presentation.
An attendance of at least 80% is required to proceed with the presentation.
Regulation – FYP 2
By the end of Project II, the student should prepare his/her poster for poster presentation where the Industrial Advisors will assign their grade out of the 15% assigned for excellent projects.
If the Industrial Advisor is unavailable to attend the Poster Day event, the senior staff of the respective department will then perform an ad-hoc committee to judge and decide on the marks to be given to the students out of the allocated 15%.
Approval for publishing the project or complete prototype in working conditions is required for competition purposes.
Assessment Scheme
FYP1: Supervisor (Report): 30% Examiner (Report): 35% Examiner (Presentation): 30% Timeliness : 5%
FYP2: Supervisor (Report): 25% Examiner (Report): 30% Examiner (Presentation): 25% Poster: 15% Timeliness: 5%
Log Book and Online Progress Report
You must own a log book to keep track of your progress
Online progress report (with logbook on the specific dates) MUST BE SUBMITTED at the following dates:
1. Monday, 29 September 20142. Monday, 20 October 2014 (+logbook submission)3. Monday, 10 November 20144. Monday, 1 December 20145. Monday, 22 December 2014 (+logbook submission)
Online Progress Report
FYP1 and FYP2 progress report: http://staff.iium.edu.my/adah510/ Your progress report will be forwarded to
your supervisor and respective FYP coordinator
The reports are individual reports
Online Progress Report
Consequences for Delinquency Barring from presentation
Failure to fulfill 10 consultation throughout the semester (and based on online progress report)
Will lose evaluation marks by examiners
Extension
Extension is not applicable for FYP1 The result will be either Pass (A-C) or Fail
Extension for FYP2 is considered only for genuine cases/reasons (not encouraged to do the extension) Unavailability of equipment/facilities Maximum 2 months (automatically fail if
more than 2 months) and maximum grade is B.
Submission of Report for Presentation
FYP1 Three copies (coil bind) must be submitted per
student Softcopy, please send
TO: [email protected] Subject: [Sem 1 2014/2015] Matric - Title of the FYP
FYP2 Three copies of report must be submitted (coil
bind) PLUS one CD per student Softcopy, please send TO: [email protected] Subject: [Sem 1 2014/2015] Matric - Title of the FYP
Submission of Report
Do not wait to write your report in the last week (even last day) of submission. It will not work and it will produce unacceptable (and mostly plagiarized) report.
The details on how to submit to Turnitin will be discussed in the FYP second briefing.
Where to Submit Reports?
At the Department Office (please print in small paper, your supervisor name and your examiners name)
Presentation
FYP1 10 minutes each student 5 minutes Q & A
FYP2 15 minutes each student 5 minutes Q & A
FYP Briefing 2
The second FYP Briefing will be on the 2nd October 2014
• ADAB and ETHICS• ISSUES with TURNITIN