3691 major or minor project report guidelines and formats

Advanced College Of Engineering And Management, Kupondole, Lalitpur
Prepared by: Surendra K. Dhakal (first prepared on: August 2013 and last updated on: March 2014)
MAJOR/MINOR PROJECT REPORT WRITING GUIDELINES AND
FORMAT
(Advanced College of Engineering and Management)
Your project report should follow the following topics and standards. It is the
responsibility of the student and the supervisor to ensure that the report complies in all
respects to these guidelines.
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication (optional)
Declaration (optional)
Certificate of approval
Copyright
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of Contents
List of Tables (Optional)
List of Figures (Optional)
List of Symbols and Abbreviations (Optional)
Glossary (Optional)
Main body
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Requirement Analysis
Chapter 4: System Design and Architecture
Chapter 5: Methodology
Chapter 6: Implementation Details
Chapter 7: Result and Analysis
Chapter 8: Conclusion and Future Work
Appendix
References

Cover Page: See EXAMPLE 1
Title Page: The style of the title page to be used for report is shown in
EXAMPLE 2
Dedication (optional): you may dedicate your work to someone special
(EXAMPLE 3)
Declaration (optional): it contains your declaration of completing this project
work genuinely and legally (EXAMPLE 4).
Certificate of approval: a certificate issued by the college/university for the
successful completion of this project (EXAMPLE 5)
Copyright: is a page that gives the copyright authority to the college or
department to use it for the study and inspection purpose but not to produce other
copies by anyone (EXAMPLE 6)
Acknowledgement: In the acknowledgement, the students thank
mentors/supervisors and colleagues who supported the research. The
acknowledgements should not exceed one page. (EXAMPLE 7)
Abstract: An abstract is a brief summary with objectives. It should be
approximately one page (EXAMPLE 8).
Table of Contents: The table of contents lists all the parts of the report following
the Table of Contents (EXAMPLE 9).
List of Tables (Optional): This is a list of all the table titles in numerical order
with their page numbers. (EXAMPLE 10)

List of Figures (Optional): This is a list of all figures titles in numerical order
with their page numbers. (EXAMPLE 11)
List of Symbols and Abbreviations (Optional): This is an alphabetical list of the
conventional signs and shortened forms of words or phrases used in the text.
(EXAMPLE 12)
Glossary (Optional): A report which contains many foreign or technical terms
should include a list of them, followed by their translation or definition. These
terms should be arranged alphabetically.
Main body: it is the main text of your project. All the texts of this body should be
organized in chapters as shown below.
Chapter 4: System Design and Architecture
1.1 Background Introduction
1.2 Other related topics or terms that need to be introduced
1.3 Motivation
1.4 Problem Definition

1.5 Goals and Objectives
1.6 Scope and Applications
1.7 Report Organization: briefly explains all the chapters and their focus
It contains all the existing works that have already been carried out in the
field related to your project topic. You have to explain each of the works
as a separate subtopic with following details.
• What is the work?
• How is it done? : Methods, techniques, technology, algorithms,
any new innovations etc (details in brief)
• Its importance or applications
• Find out the drawback or limitations if any
• Criticize the work (on its drawbacks or incompleteness)
Link these criticisms on the existing works to the “motivation” in chapter
1 behind the reason for selecting this project. You may also include other
motivation factors also.
3.1 Project requirements (Hardware and software)
3.2 Feasibility study
Chapter 4: System (or Project) Design and Architecture
4.1 Block diagram or System Architecture or Circuit Diagram: explain all
the building blocks of your system in details (what and how it does the
things?)
Example: Preprocessing block --- write down what and how it does
4.2 ER-Diagram (if applicable)

4.3 Data Flow Diagram and other design methods and tools (if applicable)
It may contain the same thing (blocks or units) that have been explained in
chapter 4. But the explanation should be in detail in a particular sequence
in which you have done your work along with detail algorithms,
procedures, circuit diagrams or others which illustrate the “how” part in
detail.
Example: Preprocessing block --- write down what and how it does along
with different algorithms or diagrams that you have designed or used.
In few of the projects the chapter 4 and 5 may be combined together into
“System (or Project) Design and Methodology”
It contains the details of the implementation of the things that have been
explained in methodology. In short, it describes about how the
methodology is implemented?
The implementation can be done using any programming language,
simulators, or any other tools. Explain how you used your language or tool
to implement the methodology.
You may also include your language or simulator or tool specific
algorithms or diagrams.
It contains the result of output of your project. The output can be numeric
or graphical based. Represent or write down the results in tabular form if
applicable and analyze that by using graphs or charts. Also make a
comparison of your work with the existing one(s).

8.1 Conclusion
8.2 Limitations
8.3 Future Enhancement
Appendix: it contains the additional topics or data sheets or reference sheets or even user
manual the appendix name should be give in capital alphabets starting from ‘A’.
Example:
Appendix A: User Manual
References: Any approved reference format may be used, but must be used consistently
throughout. The reference should follow IEEE format. (EXAMPLE 13)

FEW ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES
Language
All the project reports must be submitted in the English language.
Typeface (Font and Size)
Only one single typeface (font), with its italic and bold variants, may be used
through the entire report, including in the title page, approval page,
acknowledgements, bibliography and appendices. (Exceptions to this can be
made for footnotes, subscripts and superscripts, and for tables, figures or
illustrations imported from other sources.)
** IT IS ADVISABLE TO USE “TIMES NEW ROMAN” as the typeface
Chapter names, declaration -to- table of contents: 16 bold
Main topic of chapter: 14 bold
Subtopic: 12 bold
Other topics: 12 bold or italic (with no numbering)
Content: 12
Justification
A report may be fully justified (i.e., have even left- and right-hand margins), or
left-justified only (i.e., have ragged right-hand margins). However, the
justification must be consistent throughout the body of the report.
Margins
A left margin of 1.5 inches (3.5 cm) on all pages is required. All other margins
must be one inch (2.5 cm) wide. Page numbers in the body of the text must be
one inch (2.5 cm) from the bottom and centered at the bottom of the page.
This means that the text ends above the page number and will be slightly more
than one inch from the bottom of the paper.
The prefatory pages (everything that comes before the actual body of the text) are
numbered in Arabic numerals, and have their page numbers one inch (2.5 cm)

from the bottom of the page. This includes the Approval Page. This means that
the text ends two lines above the page numbering.
Spacing/Printing
Using a laser printer, the spacing should be set at one-and-one-half (1.5)
spacing.
Spacing Within Sections of the Report
Single spacing may be used in an extensive Table of Contents, List of Tables, or
List of Figures, as long as there is double or one-and-one-half spacing between
chapters. The spacing must be consistent.
Single spacing may be used in extensive quotations within the body of the text.
Double or one-and-one-half spacing is required in the Abstract,
Acknowledgements, etc.
Page Numbers and numbering tables and figures
All pages must be taken into account in the numbering: this includes all pages of
figures, tables, legends, etc. Every single page in the report must be numbered,
except the cover page. Numbering begins with the Cover Page, which is always
Page I but is not shown in the page.
The lead (prefatory) pages, up to the beginning of the text (chapter), are to be
numbered with Roman numerals (e.g I, II, III, IV, etc.) centered at the bottom of
the page, one inch from the bottom.
Beginning with the first page of the text, all page numbers must be in Arabic
numerals (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4 etc) at the bottom. The page numbers are to be located at
the bottom and center of each page, one inch (2.5 cm) from the bottom.
Appendices must also be numbered following the rest of the report. If the
bibliography ends on page 247, Appendix A begins on page 248. Numbering
Appendices page A1, B1, C1, etc., is not acceptable.

Inserting or deleting a page after the report has been completed requires the
repagination of all subsequent pages. Inserting "a" (e.g., 141a, 141b, 141c) is not
acceptable.
Numbering of tables and figures must be consecutive, without repetition of
numbers throughout the text. Numbering should be 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc according with
chapter names. The numbers must be consistent.
Page Headers and footers
Page headers may be used as long as there is a line across the entire page to
separate the header from the text.
Table of Contents (EXAMPLE 9)
The Table of Contents must include a listing of all items in the report. See
General Format and Style for the order in which items must be listed. Everything,
except the title page, including the Table of Contents itself, must be listed in the
Table of Contents. (See Example 9)
Headings and sub-headings must be consistent between the Table of Contents and
the body of the text. Although in the Table of Contents headings may be shortened
to fit space requirements, the wording must be consistent enough that the reader will
know that the correct heading, figure or table has been reached. All capitalization,
punctuation, abbreviations, etc., must be consistent between the titles in the Table of
Contents and Lists of Tables and Figures, and the actual titles as they appear in the
body of the text.
Tables, Figures, charts and Equations
All tables (tabulated data) and figures (charts, graphs, maps, images, diagrams, etc.)
should be prepared, wherever possible, on the same paper used to type the text and
conform to the specifications outlined earlier. They should be inserted as close to
the textual reference as possible.

Tables, figures and equations should be numbered sequentially chapter-wise using
Arabic numerals. They are referred to in the body of the text capitalizing the first
letter of the word and number asTable 5.3, Figure 3.11, Equation (4.16), etc.
If tables and figures are of only half a page or less, they may appear on the same
page as text but separated above and below by triple line spacing. Font size for text
should be the same as for the general text.
Good quality Line Drawings/figures must be drawn using standard software that
provides vector rather than bit-map graphics. Figures must be scalable.
Images, Photographs, etc. must be scanned in resolution exceeding 200dpi with 256
grayscales for the monochrome images and 24 bit per pixel for the color images.

EXAMPLE 1: Cover Page
DIAGNOSIS OF ABNORMAL MAMMOGRAPHIC
IMAGES USING MULTI-STAGE CLASSIFIER //16 bold
A
Major Project //14 bold
<Project Code> //12
Submitted by-14 bold
<Student’s Name> <Roll No>
<Student’s Name> <Roll No> //12
In partial fulfillment for the award of the Degree of
Bachelor of Engineering //12
In
COMPUTER ENGINEERING //12
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING //12
ADVANCED COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
KUPONDOLE, LALITPUR //14
INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY //16 bold
July, 2013 //12

EXAMPLE 2: Title Page
DIAGNOSIS OF ABNORMAL MAMMOGRAPHIC
IMAGES USING MULTI-STAGE CLASSIFIER
A
Major Project
<Project Code>
Submitted to
Department of Electronics & Communication and Computer Engineering
Submitted by
In partial fulfillment for the award of the Degree of
Bachelor of Engineering
In
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Under the supervision of
<Supervisor’s name>
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
ADVANCED COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
KUPONDOLE, LALITPUR
INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY
July, 2013

EXAMPLE 3: Dedication

EXAMPLE 4: Declaration
D E C L A R A T I O N
I hereby declare that the Report of the P.G. Project Work entitled “DIAGNOSIS OF
ABNORMAL MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING MULTISTAGE
CLASSIFIER” which is being submitted to the Advanced College of Engineering and
Management, Tribhuvan University, in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering in COMPUTER ENGINEERING
in the Department of Electronics & Communication and Computer Engineering, is a
bonafide report of the work carried out by us. The material contained in this Report has
not been submitted to any University or Institution for the award of any degree.
<Student’s Name> <Roll No.> <Signature>

Example 5: Certificate of Approval
CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL
The undersigned certify that the final year project entitled <”Project Title> submitted by
<Name of Students> to the Department of Electronics & Communication and Computer
Engineering in partial fulfillment of requirement for the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering in Computer Engineering. The project was carried out under special
supervision and within the time frame prescribed by the syllabus.
We found the students to be hardworking, skilled, bonafide and ready to undertake any
commercial and industrial work related to their field of study and hence we recommend
the award of Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree.
1. ……………………………….
<Supervisor’s Name>
(Project Supervisor)
2. ……………………………….
<External Examiner’s Name>
(External Examiner)
3. ……………………………….
<Department Head’s Name>
Head
Department of Electronics & Communication and Computer Engineering

Example 6: Copyright
COPYRIGHT

Example 7: Acknowledgement
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We take this opportunity to express my deepest and sincere gratitude to our supervisor
<Supervisor’s Name>, <Post>, <Department, Office or Institute> for his/her insightful
advice, motivating suggestions, invaluable guidance, help and support in successful
completion of this project and also for his/her constant encouragement and advice
throughout our Bachelors programme.
We express our deep gratitude to <Other Name(s)>, <Post>, <Department, Office or
Institute> for his/her/their regular support, co-operation, and co-ordination.
The in-time facilities provided by the department throughout the Bachelors program are
also equally acknowledgeable.
We would like to convey our thanks to the teaching and non teaching staff of the
Department of Electronics & Communication and Computer Engineering, acem for their
invaluable help and support throughout the period of Bachelors Degree. We are also
grateful to all our classmates for their help, encouragement and invaluable suggestions.
Finally, yet more importantly, I would like to express my deep appreciation to my
grandmother, parents, sister and brother for their perpetual support and encouragement
throughout the Bachelors degree period.
<Student’s Name> <Roll No.>

Example 8: Abstract
(A sample for “DIAGNOSIS OF ABNORMAL MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING
MULTISTAGE CLASSIFIER”)
ABSTRACT
The term mammographic image refers to the digital X-ray image of human breast, more
commonly female breast taken to experiment cancer on it. Breast cancer is a tumor that
starts from breast tissue and it has become a most common mortality factor for women in
the world. Even at this 21st century, there is no reliable way for breast cancer treatment.
This is why early detection of breast cancer is needed so that the patients can find the
better options for medical treatment in early stages itself. Hence, we need a system that
can decide whether you have cancer or not, if it is cancer which type of cancer do you
have and in which stage the cancer is so that it will be easier for both patients and
radiologists to have better care of it. And this project aims at the classification of such
images with high success rate to diagnose the breast cancer. A cascaded three-stage
neural network is designed for the classification purpose with a Radial Basis Function
Network in each of the stages. The first stage classifies a given mammographic image
into cancerous or non-cancerous also called as Abnormal or Normal. The second stage
classifies an abnormal mammographic image into one of the six cancer types based on
the shape and irregularities in tumor. The third stage diagnoses the severity stage of one
particular cancer type decided by second stage. The various features like texture features
based on gray level cooccurrence matrix, frequency domain features, statistical features,
and discrete laplacian sum are used for the classification purposes in each of the three
stages. The system is trained and tested with image samples provided by mammographic
image analysis society and compared with the existing system. The success rate for the
classification of cancer types is observed to be 85% against 81% of the existing one (with
four cancer types). The overall classification rate is observed to be 89.5% which is
comparable with all the existing systems.

Example 9: Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Declaration (optional) iii
Certificate of approval iv
Copyright v
Acknowledgement vi
Abstract vii
Table of Contents viii
List of Tables (Optional) x
List of Figures (Optional) xi
List of Symbols and Abbreviations (Optional) xii
Glossary (Optional) xiii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background Introduction 2
2 Literature Review
3 Requirement Analysis
4 System Design and Architecture
5 Methodology
6 Implementation Details
7 Result and Analysis
8 Conclusion and Future Work
Appendix
References

Example 10: List of Tables (SIMILAR TO LIST OF FIGURES)
Example 11: List of Figures
LIST OF FIGURES

Example 12: List of Symbols and Acronyms
LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ACRONYMS
The symbols can be ordered in either as per their use or in alphabetical order.

Example 12: References
Here are few examples for reference.
Book
[1] B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.
[2] L. Stein, “Random patterns,” in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New
York: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55-70.
[3] R. L. Myer, “Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials,” in Nonlinear
Optics, vol. 4, P. G. Harper and B. S. Wherret, Eds. San Francisco, CA:
Academic, 1977, pp. 47-160.
[4] M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, Eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions
(Applied Mathematics Series 55). Washington, DC: NBS, 1964, pp. 32-33.
[5] E. F. Moore, “Gedanken-experiments on sequential machines,” in Automata
Studies (Ann. of Mathematical Studies, no. 1), C. E. Shannon and J.
McCarthy, Eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1965, pp. 129-153.
[6] Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Staff of Technology and Science,
Aerospace Div.), Integrated Electronic Systems. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1970.
[7] M. Gorkii, “Optimal design,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, vol. 12, pp. 111-122,
1961 (Transl.: in L. Pontryagin, Ed., The Mathematical Theory of Optimal
Processes. New York: Interscience, 1962, ch. 2, sec. 3, pp. 127-135).
[8] G. O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics,” in Plastics, vol. 3,
Polymers of Hexadromicon, J. Peters, Ed., 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1964, pp. 15-64.
Handbook
Basic Format:
[1] Name of Manual/Handbook, x ed., Abbrev. Name of Co., City of
Co.,Abbrev. State, year, pp. xx-xx
Examples:
[1] Transmission Systems for Communications, 3rd ed., Western Electric Co.,
Winston-Salem, NC, 1985, pp. 44–60.
[2] Motorola Semiconductor Data Manual, Motorola Semiconductor Products
Inc., Phoenix, AZ, 1989.
[3] RCA Receiving Tube Manual, Radio Corp. of America, Electronic
Components and Devices, Harrison, NJ, Tech. Ser. RC-23, 1992.

Reports
Basic Format:
[1] J. K. Author, “Title of report,” Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev.
State, Rep. xxx, year.
Examples:
[1] E. E. Reber absorption in the earth’s atmosphere,” Aerospace Corp., Los
Angeles, CA, Tech. Rep. TR-0200 (4230-46)-3, Nov. 1988.
[2] J. H. Davis and J. R. Cogdell, “Calibration program for the 16-foot
antenna,” Elect. Eng. Res. Lab., Univ. Texas, Austin, Tech. Memo. NGL-
006-69-3, Nov. 15, 1987.
[3] R. E. Haskell and C. T. Case, “Transient signal propagation in lossless
isotropic plasmas,” USAF Cambridge Res. Labs., Cambridge, MA, Rep.
ARCRL-66-234 (II), 1994, vol. 2.
[4] M. A. Brusberg and E. N. Clark, “Installation, operation, and data
evaluation of an oblique-incidence ionosphere sounder system,” in “Radio
Propagation Characteristics of the Washington-Honolulu Path,” Stanford
Res. Inst., Stanford, CA, Contract NOBSR-87615, Final Rep., Feb. 1995,
vol. 1.
[5] P. Diament and W. L. Lupatkin, “V-line surface-wave radiation and
scanning,” Dept. Elect. Eng., New York, Sci. Rep. 85, Aug. 1991.
WWW
Basic Format:
[1] J. K. Author. (year, month day). Title (edition) [Type of medium]. Available:
http://www.(URL) (Referred on: date)
Example:
[1] J. Jones. (1991, May 10). Networks (2nd ed.) [Online]. Available:
http://www.atm.com (Referred on: March 12, 2013)

Major project mid-term report format
Cover page
Title page
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of contents
List of figures, tables, symbols (if applicable)
Main body
Chapter 1: Introduction:
Background introduction
Other related topics or terms that need to introduced
Motivation
Problem definition
Goals and objectives
Scope and applications
Report organization: brief introduction of all the chapters
Chapter 2: Literature review
Chapter 3: Requirement analysis
Project requirements (hardware and software)
Feasibility study
Chapter 4: System design and architecture
System architecture or block or circuit diagram
ER, DFD, other diagrams (if applicable)
Chapter 5: Methodology (4 & 5 may be combined together in few projects)
Chapter 6: Work done and work to be done
Chapter 7: Implementation, Partial result and analysis (if applicable)
Chapter 8: Future enhancements and Conclusion
Appendix (if applicable)
References
For more detail you may refer the main report writing guidelines from our
college website.

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