B.E./BTECH Final year project guidelines manual

Guideline for Final Year B.E. Project &
PMMS Activities
(Semester VII and VIII)
Gujarat Technological University
Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College
Nr.Visat Three Roads, Visat - Gandhinagar Highway
Chandkheda, Ahmedabad – 382424 – Gujarat

GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL (GIC)
2 | P a g e GTU Innovation Council - Guideline for Final Year B.E. Project & PMMS Activities
Table of Contents
1. Scope and Objectives of PMMS activities .....................................................................................4
2. Important Note ..............................................................................................................................5
3. Guidelines for BE Final year Project IDPs/UDPs - FAQs................................................................5
4. Guidelines as Suggested by the Council of Deans.........................................................................7
5. SELF-DECLARATION (by Student/students) of each IDP/UDP......................................................9
6. List of PMMS Tasks for Semester 7 & 8.......................................................................................10
7. List of PMMS User Manual for Various User Categories ............................................................12
8. Zone wise timeline of PMMS activities for B.E Semester 7........................................................13
9. Zone wise timeline of PMMS activities for B.E Semester 8........................................................14
10. List of zone wise colleges.............................................................................................................15
11. User ID and password for Student/Internal Guide/External Guide/ Mentor/HOD/Principal ..18
12. External Mentor Management....................................................................................................20
13. List of PMMS features according to user accounts.....................................................................22
PMMS ACTIVITES RELATED TO PROJECT .............................................................................................23
I. Student Registration and Team formation..........................................................................23
II. Periodic Progress Report (PPR) ............................................................................................24
III. Design Engineering - Canvas Activity ...................................................................................27
IV. Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) Generation Activity.........................................32
V. Business Model Canvas (BMC) Exercise...............................................................................38
VI. Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE) .............................................................................................40
VII.Plagiarism Search Report/Certificate...................................................................................42
VIII. Final Project Report............................................................................................................43
IX. Certificate generation for completion of all activities in IDP/UDP from PMMS portal .....47
X. Guideline for student’s movement from B.E. 7th semester to 8th semester ....................48
XI. Guideline for student’s project team formation in 8th semester.......................................51
14. Suggestion for Evaluation of Projects (For Internal & External Examiners) ..............................56

15. Annexure 1: Letter format for students who had not generated completion certificate during
7th
semester *...............................................................................................................................57
16. Annexure 2: Industrial Shodh Yatras (ISYs) Steps & Final Year Projects....................................58
Action Points for Colleges/Institutes and for Students...............................................................59
Four-Step Process for Defining a Final Year Problem Statement................................................61
Point 1: Notes on Scouting for the Problem ................................................................................62
Point 2: Notes on Secondary Research/Prior Art Search.............................................................64
Point 3: Industrial Shodh Yatra – In Greater Detail .....................................................................66
Point 4: Aeiou Framework for Observation Activity....................................................................68
Point 5: Diachronic & Synchronic Analysis...................................................................................70
17. Contact Us ....................................................................................................................................71
NOTE:
 INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH FULL DOCUMENT AT ONCE, STUDENTS AND
FACULTY/GUIDE/MENTOR/HOD/PRINCIPAL ARE ADVISED TO REFER SPECIFIC
PAGES OF RELEVANT ACTIVITIES AT TIME, BEFORE THEY ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO
PERFORM SAID ACTIVITY, SO AS TO UNDERSTAND ACTIVITIES AND THEIR
OBJECTIVES WELL ENOUGH.
 While every efforts has been made to ensure the correctness of the contents of
this guideline, any error(s)/deviation(s) noted may be brought to the notice of
Mr. Amitkumar Patel, Assistant Professor (IPR/Patent), at
"ipr_projectofficer@gtu.edu.in" for corrective measures.

1. Scope and Objectives of PMMS activities
Dear Students/Faculty/Guide/Mentor/HOD/Principal,
At Gujarat Technological University under visionary leadership of Vice-Chancellor, GTU
Innovation Council (GIC) has been working on the development and further scaling up of
Project Mentoring and Monitoring System (PMMS) development.
On the same platform, interactive search facility is now being provided so that you can search
the bibliography of the project reports of the last three years from all GTU affiliated colleges.
This will be useful to students for finding out the trends of projects been already carried out
and the scope of next level innovative projects.
Objective of the PMMS:
1. To develop a system for helping the students to get appropriate help and mentoring and
2. To help them work more systematically on their project.
3. To help the students to remain in active contact with their team members, their Faculty
Guide and industry-mentors (if any), HOD, principal as well as by university - on a real
time basis The students in the team can update about their progress in project and
guide can comment on their status, progress and problems. This will increase
collaboration and co-creation while improving novelty of their work.
PMMS will be used for all projects being carried out by the students in all the BE
colleges/institutes, affiliated with GTU.
PMMS is a platform which covers multiple activities being carried during final year of B.E. It
covers activities such as student registration, team formation, Periodic Progress Report (PPR),
Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) generation activity, Design Engineering – Canvas
activity, Business Model Canvas and its report upload, Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE), Final
project report upload, Uploading the plagiarism search report, Completion Certificate
generation.
Various functionalities have been generated on PMMS platform for catering the need of
students, faculty, project guide, external mentor, HOD and Principal. And further more features
will be keep on adding to make system more user friendly and result oriented.
PMMS is a user friendly and result oriented platform which helps students for multiple
activities being carried out during the work on the final year project of B.E.
MENTOR MANAGENMENT: To the PMMS development has been made so that the students
can obtain mentoring activities for their projects by various industry experts and R&D
professionals, from anywhere in the world—in addition to the mentoring from their Faculty
Guide. The platform with such interfaces has been generated to filter projects based on various
technological fields as per interest and technical expertise of the mentor.
For any query or suggestions related to PMMS you may contact GTU at: s4@gtu.edu.in
Thanks and Regards
Team PMMS, GTU Innovation Council

2. Important Note
 Every final year BE student must have to register his/ her project, along with the
details of the team members, Faculty Guide etc at earliest. Then as the semester
progresses, every student is required to upload the Periodic Progress Reports and
perform other activities regularly, related to the project.
 At the end of the semester, every student is required to upload the final project report
and other necessary documents.
 After a student registers and after it is validated by the HOD, the user name and
password will be sent by e-mail to the student, at the e-mail address, given by the
student, while registering his/ her project.
3. Guidelines for BE Final year Project IDPs/UDPs - FAQs
IDP/UDPs/Research Projects in the curricula is to make sure that students do some innovative
work, which can be related to the product/process within/outside the industry. Or the
IDP/UDPs/Research Projects may be based on some unsolved problems of the society.
Notes:
1. Innovative work can be defined as attempting different things in different ways and
making a difference.
2. A Final year student at GTU may work on one of the two types of projects, as a part of
requirement for the Degree/Diploma. The two types are IDPs or UDPs.
3. Both IDPs and UDPs will follow similar procedures (protocols) and in both the cases the
authenticity of the project is to be verified by the internal project guide.
4. The Project may be done at either the College or at the industry according to the
inputs from the internal guide.
Industry Defined Project (IDP) is a project, which is designed to improve either a product or a
process in either forms/features/functions based on a real life challenge from an industry.
Dedicated hours have been allotted, by the college considering its weekly timetable for other
subjects, every week for all branches for interaction with industries and for working on the
IDP/UDP. The students have to maintain the attendance and should attend the regular classes
as per University norms. The term depicts that the projects is to be anchored upon an
industrial use and it is to be done under the guidance of both an internal guide at college and
an external mentor from industry. However whether definition is appropriate for a Final Year
project is to be decided by the faculty only and its related issues will be binding to students
group.
User Defined Projects (UDP) is a project based upon needs of an individual, NGOs, informal
sectors, Govt. organizations and society at large. Alternatively the UDP can be on a research
problem identified by faculty, or it could be idea of student himself.
Guides: A faculty from educational Institution of the student will be guide for project. The
industry persons or any other experts can mentor the projects. (For some projects, multiple

guides can be taken.)
During final project examinations, projects are evaluated by a group of two examiners
consisting of an internal examiner and external examiner appointed by the University.
However for a project, based on an IDP, Principal/Director of the educational institution
should invite Industry mentor/guide to join group of examiners for evaluation of the project,
as the 3rd examiner.
FAQs related to IDP/UDP
 The final year project is divided into two semesters (7th & 8th)
Note: For projects, if a student is able to complete the project work during first semester,
he/she may apply to HOD for permission to take an additional project during the second
semester. (The guides/HOD/students have to check progress and in suitable cases only a
new project is to be allowed with a record keeping at corresponding department)
• Generally, students are expected to complete one third of total work expected from
Project Definition, during the 7th Semester. The remaining two third work will have to be
completed before end of 8th Semester. However if Project Definition given at 7th
Semester, requires less work to be done, then a new definition, requiring proportionate
work corresponding to time and credits allotted at 8th Semester, will be given to
students, during start of 8th Semester.
• A student may take either IDP or UDP. However proposal for final year project will have to
be submitted in required format.
• Kho-Kho model (relay) of projects can be allowed where a semi-finished project done by
the previous year’s students, at a particular department, can be adopted by students of
next year.
• The number of students per group for a project has to be decided by college/department/
project guides and it is not limited to any number, it varies from project to project. (In
specific cases guides may allow inter college projects after mutual consent of both the
Principals.) Team size should always depend on size of the projects and required man-
hours to implement the defined work.
• Any student can go to any industry in or outside his sankul for defining the IDPs. (25 GTU
Innovation sankuls have been established across the State).
• The students can take inter-disciplinary projects during final year after consultation with
the guide in his/her department.
• The final year students may seek the help of Coordinator of the Udisha or GIC Club/
Departmental Coordinators for assignment to an appropriate industry or any help while
doing the IDPs/UDPs.
• The Principal/Director of the colleges are required to coordinate with Sankul Co-Chairman
(Academic) and Sankul Co-Chairman (Industry) and build relationships with industries.
• The students have to mention the name of the industry/source of the industry defined
project while submitting the project definition immediately after commencement of the
academic session during the first semester of the Final Year.
• Those students who have already undergone the training or industrial visit can define a
project definition from the respective industries, based on the training or industrial visit.
• Where ever feasible students have to demonstrate a proof of prototypes/working model
during the final examinations. Each team has to keep all their progress documented while
working on the project.

4. Guidelines as Suggested by the Council of Deans
The students are supposed to scout for IDP/ UDPs before commencement of first semester of
the final academic year. The student will take review inputs from faculty member, who is/are
to be his/her/their Guide for the project and submit/present a presentation in power-point
and document, in the format of ( http://gtu.ac.in/udishapdf/IDPIndustryDefinedProject.pdf ) .
(In case of a UDP, students have to fill user’s detail in place of details related to industry)
within one month of commencement of semester. (Team/individual will submit a report on
the problem/project to the HOD. The IDP/UDP is mandatory for all branches.)
1. Each team has to present their IDPs/UDPs/Projects in front of their whole class and all
faculty members of corresponding branch within one month of commencement of
semester. Then, till the end of semester, students group will have to work on actual
project tasks. The student group will be regularly visiting industry/meeting faculty
guides as per time allotted in the time table, and will submit biweekly (as per college)
progress reports to guides/mentors/industries/college.
2. Colleges may invite other experts including industry persons; Sankul Co-Chairs
/Directors of Sankul/faculties during these presentations. All the presentations have to
be stored and maintained by respective colleges and departments. IDP/UDP reports of
all the branches of the college are required to be uploaded on GTU PMMS portal, and
same has to be verified by respective guide/HOD/Principal.
3. If the guides/HODs find during the presentation that the IDPs/UDPs are not suitable or is
a repetition (done exactly the same thing in same manner before) or having not
sufficient authentication about the industry who has provided the projects/problems,
the teams may be asked to resubmit new definitions/value added definitions within 15
days. (The weightage is to be given based on the innovativeness of concept, originality
of the concept and the usefulness of project)
4. If IDP is not of the required level, students may be asked to work on a UDP, defined by a
faculty member.
5. Each team has to present (in report) their literature survey/prior art survey/ Patent
Search & Analysis Reports (PSAR) of their ideas while presenting their IDPs/UDPs. If they
are adding value to any existing product or process they might suggest the frugality/cost
benefit or benefits to any common user or to any SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises)
through their IDPs/UDPs.
6. The teams have to be evaluated based on the credits as decided by university.
7. The internal evaluation of the IDPs/UDPs during 7th and 8th semester is to be done
through continuous evaluation process at each department of respective colleges to
gauge the efforts of students. The teams are supposed to keep their industries/users
informed about their progress. The continuous evaluation/presentation is to be done
once in a month/bimonthly as decided by the colleges. Departments may invite industry
mentors to presentations and the opinion of industry mentors may be taken into
account by internal guide for internal evaluation.
8. The industry guides/any other experts, who have helped in IDP/UDP may be invited to
address students about the innovations adopted/needed by them during these
presentations or in given time frame in the academic calendar for project.
9. While submitting the IDPs/UDPs as individual or as an individual/team has to submit a
self-declaration form in the given format about the authenticity of the IDP/UDP to

ensure that the project is being developed with the help of their guides
(external/internal). The Head of Department and internal guide must not accept ready
solution, prepared by a third party and presented by a student/team of students. In
such scenarios the internal guide/Head of Department may cancel the project, at any
stage, if proper justification cannot be produced. (A record of such scenarios is to be
maintained at the department for reference of GTU)
10. The hard copies of the IDP/UDPs forms with self-declaration form (signed) is to be kept
as record of the corresponding department of the corresponding colleges. (The soft
copies is to be submitted to GTU according to the given format online after
presentations/evaluation as part of final project report)
11. All student teams are must require to register and complete all tasks on PMMS portal
during both semester, the same has to be properly reviewed by respective guide/HOD/
Principal. After which all students are must require to generate completion certificate
and same has to be attached with their project report along with signature from their
guide and respective HOD.
12. For Industrial Shodh Yatras (ISYs) Steps & Final Year Projects follow the steps as
mentioned under Annexure 2 of this guideline document.
The detailed format for industry defined project scouting is posted in subsequent pages of this
guideline. The students will also have to submit the problem/project definition to the
concerned college and university through PMMS portal. The problem definition should have
content as per the given guidelines including details of previous attempts to solve such
problems/projects and the proposed ways to solve the problem/process by the concerned
student or the team of students.

5. SELF-DECLARATION (by Student/students) of each IDP/UDP
SELF-DECLARATION (by Student/students) of each IDP/UDP
(This has to be attached along with IDP/UDP report, while submitting the copy to university
through PMMS portal and to departments in hard copy)
SELF - DECLARATION (by Student/students)
I/we
___________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
(Name of student/students), the student _________________of Branch, having enrolment
number ___________________________enrolled at ________________________________
(college name) hereby certify and declare the following:
1. I/we have defined my/our project based on inputs at
____________________________________________ (users name/industry/any
other user like faculty or any other organizations) and each of us will make
significant efforts to make attempt to solve the challenges. I/we will attempt the
project work at my college or at any location under the direct and consistent
monitoring of __________________________ (guides name/industry/user). We will
adopt all ethical practices to share credit amongst all the contributors based on their
contributions during the project work.
2. I /we have not purchased the solutions developed by any 3rd party directly and the
efforts are made by me/we under the guidance of guides.
3. The project work is not copied from any previously done projects directly. (Same
project can be done in different ways but if it has been done in same manner before
then it may not be accepted)
4. __________________________________________ (Name of industry/user/self) to
the best of my knowledge is a genuine industry engaged in the professional
service/social organizations.
5. We understand and accept that he above declaration if found to be untrue, it can
result in punishment/cancellation of project definition to me/we including failure in
the subject of project work.
Name/Names:
Contact number/numbers:
Date: Sign:/signs
Place:

6. List of PMMS Tasks for Semester 7 & 8
The online platform: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ helps cater to the different needs of the
students and colleges. During semester 7 and 8, following tasks will have to be carried out by
students using the PMMS platform only:
PMMS Tasks for Semester 7 & 8:
Semester 7 Semester 8
1. Student registration
2. Team formation
3. Periodic Progress Report (PPR)
4. Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR)
generation activity
5. Design Engineering – Canvas activity
6. Final project report upload.
7. Uploading the plagiarism search report
8. Completion Certificate generation
9. Feedback Form
1. Student movement to semester 8
2. Team formation
3. Periodic Progress Report (PPR)
4. Business Model Canvas (BMC) (along with
Design Engineering canvases, if any) and its
report upload
5. Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE)
6. Final project report upload.
7. Uploading of the plagiarism search report
8. Completion Certificate generation
9. Feedback Form
Details about all above activities is described in detail, in the following pages of this
document.
For common activities (which will be carried out during both semesters) such as Periodic
Progress Reports (PPR) etc, the common details as described in subsequent pages will be
applicable during both semesters.
For all the above activities, each student has to register with his details at
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ . After the approval from respective HOD/Principal students will
get password via email to work on the PMMS portal.

PMMS activity matrix for semester 7 and 8:
Activity For Semester 7 or 8
Team activity or
Individual Activity
Student registration Only Semester 7 Individual student activity
Team formation Both Semesters Team activity
Periodic Progress Report
(PPR)
Both Semesters Individual student activity
Design Engineering –
Canvas activity
Only Semester 7 Team activity
Patent Search & Analysis
Report (PSAR) generation
activity
Only Semester 7 Individual student activity
Final project report upload. Both Semesters Team activity
Uploading the plagiarism
search report
Both Semesters Team activity
Completion Certificate
generation
Both Semesters Individual student activity
Student Movement from
Semester 7 to Semester 8
Only Semester 8 Individual student activity
Business Model Canvas
(BMC) and its report upload
Patent Drafting Exercise
(PDE)
It is very important to understand the OBJECTIVE of all activities (mentioned
at following pages in this document) prior to doing it.

7. List of PMMS User Manual for Various User Categories
Detailed user manual comprising all stages and steps of the PMMS portal, for all user categories is
available at said links:
User
Category
Web link for the User Manual
Student http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforStudent.pdf
Internal Guide/
Faculty
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforInternalGuide.pdf
External Guide http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforExternalGuide.pdf
Mentor http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforMentor.pdf
HOD http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforHOD.pdf
Principal http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforPrincipal.pdf

8. Zone wise timeline of PMMS activities for B.E Semester 7
To manage the student’s traffic on PMMS website and server, as well for smoothly running of
project PMMS activities, GTU has defined a strategy to divide the zone wise colleges in two broad
groups. And alternately server will remain open for students of respective zone.
The group division is as below:
Group Included Zones
Group 1 Zone 1 & 2 (53 Colleges)
Group 2 Zone 3, 4 & 5 (71 Colleges)
* List of colleges under each zone is mentioned on next pages.
* These are tentative days, and may differ based on real situation. Real situation will be
mentioned/publish on PMMS portal.
The time period for various tasks (time window) for said activity of defined groups are as below:
Sr. No. Task Zone 1 & 2 Zone 3, 4 & 5
1
Student Registration & Team
Formation
First six weeks of the semester
2
First- Periodic Progress Report
(PPR)
3
Design Engineering Canvas
(DEC) and its report upload *
Next 5 days Next 5 days
4
Second - Periodic Progress
Report (PPR)
5
Patent Search Analysis Report
(PSAR)
6
Third - Periodic Progress Report
(PPR)
7
Forth - Periodic Progress Report
(PPR)
Next 7 Days Next 7 days
8 Final project report upload Next 4 days Next 4 days
9
Uploading of the plagiarism
search report
10
Completion Certificate
generation
Note:
 This will be applicable only to students.
 For internal guide, HOD, Principal, External Guide and Mentor site will remain open for ALL
DAYS, without any restrictions.
* This would be continuous activity for semesters as it is iterative in nature

9. Zone wise timeline of PMMS activities for B.E Semester 8
To manage the student’s traffic on PMMS website and server, as well for smoothly running of
project PMMS activities, GTU has defined a strategy to divide the zone wise colleges in two broad
groups. And alternately server will remain open for students of respective zone.
The group division is as below:
Group Included Zones
Group 1 Zone 1 & 2 (53 Colleges)
Group 2 Zone 3, 4 & 5 (71 Colleges)
* List of colleges under each zone is mentioned on next pages.
* These are tentative days, and may differ based on real situation. Real situation will be
mentioned/publish on PMMS portal.
The time period for various tasks (time window) for said activity of defined groups are as below:
Sr.No. Task Zone 1 & 2 Zone 3, 4 & 5
1
Student movement to semester 8 & Team
Formation First six weeks of the semester
2 First- Periodic Progress Report (PPR)
3
Business Model Canvas (BMC) (along with
DEC, if any) and its report upload
4 Second - Periodic Progress Report (PPR) Next 5 days Next 5 days
5 Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE) Next 5 days Next 5 days
6 Third - Periodic Progress Report (PPR) Next 5 days Next 5 days
7 Forth - Periodic Progress Report (PPR) Next 7 Days Next 7 Days
8 Final project report upload. Next 4 days Next 4 days
9 Uploading of the plagiarism search report Next 3 days Next 3 days
10 Completion Certificate generation Next 5 days Next 5 days
Note:
 This will be applicable only to students.
 For internal guide, HOD, Principal, External Guide and Mentor site will remain open for
ALL DAYS, without any restrictions.

10. List of zone wise colleges
(Colleges are as below in the alphabetic order of college name)
Zone Inst. Code Institute Name
3 001 A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KARAMSAD
4 122 AARYA-VEER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, RAJKOT
1 131 Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering
1 120 ADITYA SILVER OAK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD
1 002 AHMEDABAD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GOTA, AHMEDABAD
2 051 ALPHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, KHATRAJ, KALOL
1 108 AMIRAJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
1 128 APOLLO INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
1 121 APOLLO INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD
3 127 Arc Institute Of Technology
4 092 ARHAM VEERAYATAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH
2 093 ARRDEKTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RADHIWAD, KHEDBRAHMA
4 096 ARUN MUCHHALA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, DHARI, DIST: AMRELI
4 003 ATMIYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, RAJKOT
4 004 B. H. GARDI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, RAJKOT
3 005 BABARIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VARNAMA
4 109 BALAJI ENGINEERING COLLEGE
5 006 BHAGWAN MAHAVIR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT
3 007 BIRLA VISHVAKARMA MAHAVIDYALAYA, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR
3 008 BIRLA VISHVAKARMA MAHAVIDYALAYA, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR
5 009 C. K. PITHAWALLA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT
1 044 C. U. SHAH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, WADHWAN
1 052 CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PLASTICS ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, VATVA, AHMEDABAD
3 010 CHAROTAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHANGA
5 053 CHHOTUBHAI GOPALBHAI PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TARSADI, BARDOLI
1 118 D.A. DEGREE ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
4 054 DARSHAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, RAJKOT-MORBI HIGHWAY, HADALA
3 082 DR. JIVRAJ MEHTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MOGAR, ANAND
4 083 DR. SUBHASH TECHNICAL CAMPUS - JUNAGADH
3 055 ENGINEERING COLLEGE, TUWA, GODHARA
5 084 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH. BARDOLI, SURAT
2 056
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, GROW MORE FOUNDATION GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS,BERNA,
HIMMATNAGAR
2 058
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, SHREE SARASWATI EDU. SANSTHAN GROUP OF
INSTITUTIONS,RAJPUR, KADI
3 011 G. H. PATEL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, V V NAGAR
4 059 G. K. BHARAD INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, KASTURBA DHAM, RAJKOT
2 012 GANDHINAGAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GANDHINAGAR
5 110 GIDC DEGREE ENGINEERING COLLEGE, NAVSARI
5 014 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHARUCH
1 021 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHAVNAGAR
4 015 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHUJ
3 018 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, DAHOD

3 060 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GODHARA
2 016 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, MODASA
2 061 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, PALANPUR
4 020 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, RAJKOT
2 013 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SECTOR - 28, GANDHINAGAR
5 023 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SURAT
5 019 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, VALSAD
2 022 GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE,AT. KATPUR, PATAN
2 062 GUJARAT INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL STUDIES, MOYAD, PRANTIJ
2 104
GUJARAT POWER ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE (GPERI), MEVAD, DIST.
MEHSANA
1 129 GYANMANJARI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO
2 098 HANSABA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SIDHPUR,PATAN
2 024 HASMUKH GOSWAMI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, VAHELAL
4 085 HJD INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, KERA
1 025 INDUS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, AHMEDABAD
3 095 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSE TECHNICAL CAMPUS,VADODARA
3 101 IPCOWALA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, DHARMAJ, ANAND
3 064 K. J. INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, SAVALI
2 026 KALOL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH CENTRE, KALOL
4 027 KANKESHWARIDEVI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JAMNAGAR
1 028 L. D. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AHMEDABAD
1 032 L. J. INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD
2 029 LALJIBHAI CHATURBHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHANDU
5 086 LAXMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SARIGAM
3 100 LEADS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, AT: MATAR. BHARUCH
2 030
LEELABEN DASHRATHBHAI RAMDAS PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH,
GANDHINAGAR
4 031 LUKHDHIRJI ENGINEERING COLLEGE, MORBI
3 063
MADHUBEN AND BHANUBHAI PATEL WOMEN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING FOR STUDIES
AND RESEARCH IN COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
5 033 MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTRE, NAVSARI
5 111 MAHAVIR SWAMI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
4 116
MARWADI EDUCATION FOUNDATION - FACULTY OF PG STUDIES & RES. IN ENGG. & TECH.,
RAJKOT
4 057 MARWADI EDUCATION FOUNDATION'S GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS,RAJKOT
4 097
MARWADI EDUCATION FOUNDATION'S GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS-FACULTY OF
TECHNOLOGY, RAJKOT
2 065 MERCHANT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BASNA, VISNAGAR
1 034 NARNARAYAN SHASTRI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JETALPUR
3 117 NEOTECH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
4 035 NOBLE GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, JUNAGADH
4 102 OM ENGINEERING COLLEGE, AT CHOKLI, DIST JUNAGADH
3 103 OM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AT VANTAVACHHODA, PO:SHAHERA DIST PANCHMAHAL
5 112 PACIFIC SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
3 037 PARUL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, WAGHODIA
3 087 PARUL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, LIMDA

4 038 R. K. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, RAJKOT
2 039 S. P. B. PATEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, MEHSANA
5 123 S.S.AGRAWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, NAVSARI
2 066 SABAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR GIRLS, TAJPUR, SABARKANTHA
1 113 SAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
1 126 SAL ENGINEERING & TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, SOLA, AHMEDABAD
1 067 SAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING RESEARCH, AHMEDABAD
2 088 SAMARTH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, HIMMATNAGAR
4 036 Sanjaybhai Rajguru College of Engineering
2 040 SANKALCHAND PATEL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, VISNAGAR
3 124 SARDAR PATEL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BAKROL ANAND
2 068 SARDAR PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PILUDARA, MEHSANA
3 041 SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VASAD
5 042 SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT
4 070 SEMI FINANCED DEGREE ENGINEERING COLLEGE, JAMNAGAR
2 075 SHANKERSINH VAGHELA BAPU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UNAVA, GANDHINAGAR
1 043 SHANTILAL SHAH ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHAVNAGAR
1 114 SHREE PANDIT NATHULALJI VYAS TECHNICAL CAMPUS
2 125 SHREE SWAMINARAYAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHAT, GANDHINAGAR
1 107 SHRI J.M. SABVA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY-BOTAD,DIST. BHAVNAGAR
4 089 SHRI LABHUBHAI TRIVEDI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, RAJKOT
5 045 SHRI S'AD VIDYA MANDAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,BHARUCH
2 091 SHRI SATSANGI SAKETDHAM "RAM ASHRAM" GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS.
5 076 SHRI SWAMI ATMANAND SARASWATI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SURAT
5 099 SHROFF S R ROTARY INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, AT & PO: VATARIA, BHARUCH
3 050 SIGMA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, VADODARA
1 077 SILVER OAK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD
2 078 SMT. S. R. PATEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE
4 130 Smt. Shantaben Haribhai Gajera Engineering College
5 133 SONDARBA RAMSINH MAGROLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,VALIA
2 115 SWAMINARAYAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
4 079 TAKSHSHILA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, ISHWARIYA, RAJKOT
2 090 TATVA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL STUDIES, MODASA
1 046 UNIVERSAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD
3 080 VADODARA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, KOTAMBI, WAGHODIYA
5 048 VALIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,VALIA, BHARUCH
2 081 VENUS INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHOYAN RATHOD, GANDHINAGAR
5 094 VIDHYADEEP INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY, ANITA (KIM)
5 049 VIDYABHARTI TRUST, INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH CENTRE, UMRAKH-BARDOLI
2 017 VISHWAKARMA GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHANDKHEDA
4 047 VYAVASAYI VIDYA PRATISHTHAN'S SANCH. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, RAJKOT

11.User ID and password for Student/Internal Guide/External Guide/
Mentor/HOD/Principal
FOR STUDENT:
Once final year BE student registers on PMMS portal, and after it is validated by the HOD,
the user name and password will be sent by e-mail to the student, at the e-mail address,
given by the student, while registering his/her details on student registration form. For
students username will remain their enrolment number.
FOR INTERNAL GUIDE/HOD/PRINCIPAL:
GTU PMMS system is based on Faculty Members’ data provided by colleges through the
GTU admin panel. Separate log in details are being provided to Internal Guides of the
projects, HOD and Principal to use PMMS platform.
For faculty members other than HOD or Principal, username will Email ID as given by
college through GTU admin panel. For HOD & Principal, PMMS user ID will remain the
respective standard email ID as generated by GTU, to avoid any complexities in case if any
HOD or Principal is changing the college or any other similar cases. Password will be sent
via email to internal guide, HOD and principal.
FOR EXTERNAL GUIDE AND MENTOR:
For External Guide, PMMS user name will be email Id as provided by students during their
team formation. On team approval by respective faculty, log in details will be sent to given
email address by PMMS services.
For Mentor, PMMS username will be email Id as provided by said mentor in Mentor
Registration Form, or email id as mentioned by faculty in mentor invitation registration
form as given under their account. Once such mentorship request will be approved by
university admin then log in credentials will be sent via email to mentioned email address.
NOTE:
For Students – password to operate will remain active for final year only.
For GTU faculty, HOD and Principal - password will remain same as shared in earlier
semester/year, but will be operative only when PMMS system allowed such users for
working.
For External Guide and Mentor – Once their account is approved and generated to PMMS
system with their email address in current or earlier semester/year, then password will
remain same for next semester or year, , but will be operative only when PMMS system
allowed such users for working.
In case if any user forgets their password to operate on PMMS portal, then user may
recover the password via providing their registered email address at Forgot Password
functionality on PMMS portal, and an email will be sent to their given email address
containing credentials by system.

The username and password to operate PMMS portal: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ is sent via email to the
users as below:
Sr.
No.
User
Category
Password for PMMS is sent via email, at following
email address:
1 Students Email Id provided by student in registration phase
2
Faculty/
Internal Guide
Email ID provided in GTU staff data through
http://gtu.ac.in/admin/ by respective college
3
External
Guide
Email ID provided by student in registration phase of their
team details
4 Mentor
Email id provided by Mentor in registration phase, or Email
id as mentioned by faculty in mentor invitation registration
form as given under their account.
5 HOD
be_XXX_YY_head@gtu.edu.in
where in XXX is the college code & YY is department code
6 Principal
becXXXowner@gtu.edu.in
where in XXX is the college code
For HOD and Principal, ONLY GTU standard mail ID (becXXXowner@gtu.edu.in or
be_XXX_XX_head@gtu.edu.in ) is to be used as username in PMMS.
For all activities which are to be performed through faculty account can also be performed
from respective HOD or Principal's account as well. PMMS portal has given all rights to HOD
and Principal's account as well.
For faculty, whose data is not available at GTU admin panel or whoever wants to
edit/update their profile can update details through: http://gtu.ac.in/admin/ . Once it is
done then only, it will be possible to access this site.
For faculty, Please refer: http://gtu.ac.in/affiliation/2015/09062015_11.pdf

12. External Mentor Management
To invite and engage the external mentors: experts of specific domains (industry owners,
subject experts, R&D professionals, and external faculty), in to student’s projects, GTU has
launched a Mentor Management functionality under PMMS portal.
GTU invites external mentors to get engage with student’s project, from any state or any
country, without any limitation of geographic boundaries.
Note: Mentors must not be a GTU Faculty.
Any interested person can register as Mentor for final year B.E. projects via following
below steps:
I. Invitation by GTU Faculty/HOD/Principal/University PMMS team
 GTU Faculty/HOD/Principal/University PMMS team can send invitation link to any
professional through their PMMS account.
 Once they send invitation, an email will be sent on his/her email id with Mentor
Registration Form link.
 He/She has to fill up Mentor registration form in PMMS
II. Professional himself/herself can apply to register as Mentor on PMMS portal via
following link:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/layouts/15/GTUPMMSMentor/ReqForMentorRegistration.aspx
Mentor registration request will be sent to University PMMS team for approval, University
PMMS team will accept/reject the Mentor Request after reviewing the application.
Difference between External Guide and External Mentor.
External guide is the one under whose guidance student is doing any specific project, while
the external mentor is the one who can specifically join to any project based on his area of
specialisation/interest.
Who can join as external mentor?
Mentors from reputed institutes faculty (apart from GTU colleges), Entrepreneur, Industry
Professional, Industry Owner/Partner, R&D Professional, Others can nominates themselves
individually or can be invited as an external mentor by any faculty/HOD/Principal.
How to join as external mentor on PMMS portal?
Any mentor himself can apply via following link:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/_layouts/15/GTUPMMSMentor/ReqForMentorRegistration.aspx or any
GTU faculty can invite outside experts as mentor via filling mentor invitation registration
form as given under their account.
Registration form for mentor registration requires following details: Name, Email id,
Contact Number, Qualification, Specialization, Area of Interest, Current position, Years of
experience, Company/Organization/College Name, Website of Company/Organisation/
College.

Upon receipt of any such request, after checking details University PMMS team will
approve/reject request as an external mentor for student’s project.
Once university accepts/approves the Mentor Request for any person, login credentials will
be sent to mentor on his/her email id.
Using those login credentials, external mentor can log into the PMMS portal: (User Id will
be Email ID and password will be as given via email). Log in page is: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/
How mentor can select specific projects for mentoring?
Once external mentor logs in to the PMMS portal, he/she will be able to search and see the
student projects relevant to his/her area of interest and specialization fields. External
mentor can select specific projects as per his interest and can associate for mentorship to
particular projects based on their interest and project concepts.
Once Mentor is assigned to one project, that project/team will not be visible to any other
mentor at the time of mentorship request.
Any external mentor can be associated with maximum of FIVE projects only.
What can external mentor do through PMMS portal?
External mentor can see the details and progress related to project team including
students, Guide, HOD and Principal.
Mentor can view comments of Guide, HOD and Principal as been made for any project.
External mentor can comment on project report and other PMMS tasks: PPR reports, PSAR
reports, Design canvases, Business Model Canvas, PDE report etc.
Students/Team member can view mentor’s comments and revert back on same thread. All
communication between Mentor and student/Team member would be displayed in single
communication thread.
External mentor can comment to guide students, based on their progress and to further
suggest them for next phase activities.
Note: The USER MANUAL for mentor’s role and activity for PMMS activities is available at:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/UserManual/UserManualforMentor.pdf

13. List of PMMS features according to user accounts.
Feature
Who can
initiate?
Who can
approve?
Description
Request to Add
Team Member
Team Leader IG/HOD/Principal/UA
To add new team member
in to approved team.
Request to Change
Team Lead
Internal Guide HOD/Principal/UA
To change team leader of
approved team.
Request to Remove
Student
Internal Guide HOD/Principal/UA
To remove any team
member from approved
team
Request To Change
Internal Guide
Team Leader HOD/Principal/UA
To change internal guide
due to any reason
Request To Change
External Guide
Team Leader IG/HOD/Principal/UA
To change external guide
due to any reason
IG: Internal Guide
HOD: Head of Department

PMMS ACTIVITES RELATED TO PROJECT
I. Student Registration and Team formation
1. Students Registration Activity and approval by HOD/Principal. (1st July onward)
2. Students team formation for project approval by Internal Guide/HOD/Principal. (5th July
onward)
Students Registration Activity
At current stage, all BE semester 7 students have to register themselves at above platform:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ with their details, once students registers themselves at above portal
then their approval to PMMS system is to be made either by their HOD or Principal from their
PMMS account (be_XXX_YY_head@gtu.edu.in or becXXXowner@gtu.edu.in , where in XXX is college
code & YY is department code) after due verification of details given by students.
Once HOD/Principal approves the said students, the password to log in to PMMS portal for
students will be sent on their given mail Ids at registration form. Then students have to log in
using their enrolment number as user ID and password which is been sent via email on given
mail ID. After log in to the PMMS portal students may change their passwords.
Students Team Formation
After log in to PMMS, students have to form their team based on their project details and
project partner’s enrolment numbers. Such team is formed by any one of team members, once
all other team member’s student registration is approved by HOD/Principal.
Student can form their team by giving appropriate details of their project and project guide.
Then student have to add team member by giving their enrolment numbers. Only the students
who have been approved by HOD/Principal can be added to any project team. Students who
will not be approved by any HOD/Principal cannot be added to any team.
Student once added to any team cannot be added to any other team, till he/she is
approved/rejected by faculty.
Students who are doing project individually, have to select project as an individual instead of
team and has to finish the process.
Once student team request is been made/submitted, it has to be approved by either of Internal
guide. The same can also be approved by respective HOD/Principal.
Once the team is approved for any project then they can update for their regular progress and
other activities at PMMS portal. In case of any error contact your guide/HOD/Principal.
Note: For students and teams who are working on different projects during semester 7 & 8, in
such cases students may update their details at later stage during semester 8 registration
phase. Any such changes in project and team can be made during/using team registration
phase.

Inter-disciplinary Projects
Inter-disciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity
(e.g., a research project). It is about creating something new by crossing boundaries, and
thinking across them. It is related to an interdiscipline or an interdisciplinary field, which is an
organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or colleges
of thought, as new needs and professions emerge.
The term interdisciplinary is applied within education and training pedagogies to describe
studies that use methods and insights of several established disciplines or traditional fields of
study. Interdisciplinarity involves researchers, students, and teachers in the goals of connecting
and integrating several academic colleges of thought, professions, or technologies—along with
their specific perspectives—in the pursuit of a common task. Interdisciplinarity can be applied
to complex subjects that can only be understood by combining the perspectives of two or more
fields.
To the PMMS portal, features has been developed to allow Inter-disciplinary Projects by
teams comprising teams from different departments of the SAME College.
Rules related to registration of Inter-disciplinary Projects on PMMS portal:
1. Prior approval from respective guide and HOD of departments is required.
2. For Inter-disciplinary Projects students from minimum two departments are must require
to form team.
3. Students from more than two departments can also join to work on Inter-disciplinary
Projects.
4. For guide selection, during Inter-disciplinary Projects team formation, students are must
require to select minimum two faculty guides each one from associated departments.
5. Such team approval request for Inter-disciplinary Project, will be send to all selected
guides by team, and can be approved by any of them.
6. Rules of all other activity will remain same as to disciplinary projects.

II. Periodic Progress Report (PPR)
Periodic Progress Report (PPR) task has been added to the PMMS system, with following
objectives:
1. Each student will be able to update his/her progress in the project at regular
interval of time.
2. Internal guide & the external mentor (if any), can see the progress of students and
can comment on the progress and problems via this online platform.
3. HOD and Principal can maintain the track record of students’ progress, as well they
can also comment (optional).
What to do in Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?
In Periodic Progress Report (PPR) task, each individual student (Not a team, so it is an
individual student activity) has to give update with respect to his contribution in progress
of project at regular time interval of 14 days, by answering following questions.
1. What progress student has made in the project related to their final year
IDP/UDP?
(Give brief note about the work student has did in a period of 14 days, and mention
status of progress)
2. What Challenges student has faced and how they are trying to solve them?
(Student has to list out various challenges he/she had faced, with respect to task
allotted to him/her in a project)
3. What support student needs?
(Mention details related to kind of support he/she needs against kind of challenges
he/she had faced in progress of project)
4. Which literature student has referred and its analysis?
(List out all literature, which student has referred in a period of every 14 days, with
respect to need of project, challenges student has faced etc.)
Note: Each student has to submit four set of PPRs, to which his respective guide (Internal
and/or external) must have to comment. This activity will run across the semester and
students are required to update periodically. Each student has to take photocopy of four
PPRs along with the comment given by respective guide/HOD/Principal and has to attach
the same in his/her final project report.
The general set of rules related to Periodic Progress Report (PPR) task are as below:
1. Every student has to submit Periodic Progress Report (PPR) Individually (Not in Team).
2. Each student has to submit minimum four Periodic Progress Reports (PPRs).
3. Every student has to submit Periodic Progress Report (PPR) at every 14 days interval
i.e. as below:

Sr. No. Periodic Progress Report (PPR) Time Limit
1 1st PPR 15 days
2 2nd PPR 15 days
3 3rd PPR 15 days
4 4th PPR 15 days
- Additional PPR 15 days
4. If any student fails to submit any PPR within due date, he/she will not be allowed to
submit that particular PPR after such due date, as it will be freezed after due date.
5. After last date for PPR, students can submit any number of Additional PPR any time,
this is an optional task. Such report will come with following headers: Additional
PPR_XX, where in XX is the numerical value.
6. Save and Submit button on PPR: After filling PPR, if student click on Save button,
student’s PPR will be saved and he/she can edit the same in future (but within due
date only), If student click on Submit button, student’s PPR will be submitted and
he/she will not be able to edit the same in future. So be careful while submitting the
PPRs.
7. If any student wants to furnish any other details apart from answering above four
questions as part of their PPR, he/she can give details via uploading specific file.
8. Once student submits PPR, his/her respective guide (Internal AND/OR External) must
have to make comment on it.
9. If any HOD/Principal is also interested to make comment on any PPR, they are also
permitted to do so (optional).
10. At the end, students have to take photocopy of submitted PPRs (along with comments
from their respective guides – internal as well as external and/or HOD/Principal) and
have to attach the same with the final project report.
Note: Students are also required to do PPR activity during semester 8, with respect to
their semester 8 project work. Other rules will remain same as above. Applicable Time
line will be declared on PMMS portal.
Role of Internal guide/HOD/Principal:
 Make students aware about the objective of this activity.
 Internal guide must has to verify the PPR and uploaded attachments submitted by
each student. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related to PPR
and attachment. The same tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s
account.
 Based on the inputs from internal guide/HOD/Principal each student has to take
necessary action.
 External guide and External mentor can also comment on this activity.

III. Design Engineering - Canvas Activity
For Design Engineering, canvas related activities, please refer the detailed circular:
https://goo.gl/rzv2tg
During semester 7 the student teams are required to carry out following design engineering
canvas activities related to student’s project to identify and filter out good ideas and project
definition to work upon:
1. AEIOU Summary & Mind mapping
2. Empathy Canvas
3. Ideation Canvas
4. Product Development Canvas
The Institute/College will arrange workshops for different design canvases like Empathy,
Ideation and similar design thinking practices. All student-teams are required to participate in
the workshops, involving whole of the class and prepare necessary documents. Students’ teams
need to summarize AEIOU framework activity for observation part in Empathy phase. Then they
need to document scouted challenges along with user’s need with the help of Mind Mapping
technique for better understanding. After discussion with Faculty Guide and other groups, the
final problem statement has to be defined by clearly mentioning the user’s need and problems
faced in the domain. All teams need to validate their problem statements with its users.
For the format of various canvases and supportive guidance please refer following
documents, (Also the format for each canvas is given in next pages):
 BE 7th Semester Project work flow for all branches:
https://goo.gl/HAOF7i
https://goo.gl/qRo3dr
 Internal guide must has to verify uploaded canvas files related to individual teams
activity/project. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related to canvas
and report. The same tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s account.
 Based on the inputs from internal guide/HOD/Principal student team has to take
necessary action.
Note: GTU has developed facility for reviewing of design canvases by faculty/HOD/Principal
to filter best innovative ideas generated via these tasks. The best ideas will be taken forward
as real novel projects to convert into real products.

1. AEIOU Summary

2. Empathy Canvas

3. Ideation Canvas

4. Product Development Canvas

IV. Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) Generation Activity
The Objective of PSAR activity is to increase awareness regarding patents among students and
faculty by making them familiarity with patent websites & patent documents. To motivate
students for innovative thinking. In PSAR activity every student of final year BE who is doing
project individually or in team are required to do patent search related to their IDP/UDP/Final
year projects and submit a report of their such work online.
During this Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) generation activity, every student within a
team has to study at least five (5) patents related either to his/her IDP/UDP or related to
his/her area of interest. Analysed data of each of these five patents is to be submitted online at
PMMS portal.
It will be responsibility of faculty-guide to ensure that each student (team member) will study
different patents related to their IDP/UDP. No student of the same team/same class has to
repeat same patent as studied by another team member/student of same project/IDP/UDP or
class.
The PSAR reports of patent search work by each team will also be made online along with
comment and suggestions of the guide. Data will be made available online for creating lateral
learning opportunities within and across various branches/sectors of engineering students at
GTU.
 Make students aware about objectives of this activity.
 Faculty has to motivate students for finding out most relevant patented technology
related to their project area.
 Faculty has to motivate students for doing such type of innovative project works, which
are not available earlier, and has to promote students creativity by motivating them to
give an idea related to each studied patent for its possible extension.
 Internal guide must has to verify the details filled into each PSAR report by students.
Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related to PSAR report. The same
tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s account.
necessary action.
Note: To scale up PSAR activity, last year GTU had introduced PSAR review process by
faculty on PMMS portal. Faculty are advised to motivate students for giving best possible
extensions/add on features in each studied patent by every students. These data of PSAR
reports will be made online for lateral learning by other faculty and students. And after
review of each innovative idea (answer of PSAR question number 27), by faculty best ideas
can be identified and transformed/taken into really innovative projects to build novel
product or processes in next years. This will enhance the level of innovative idea/projects
and mitigate the duplication of work.

STUDENTS CAN USE ANY FREE/OPEN SOURCE AVAILABLE PATENT DATABASES FOR PATENT
SEARCH, few of open source patent databases are as below:
Database Web link
Indian Patent Office Database http://ipindiaservices.gov.in/publicsearch/
European Patent Office Database (Espacenet) http://worldwide.espacenet.com/advancedSearch
WIPO Patent Database (PATENTSCOPE) http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf
US patent database (USPTO) http://patft.uspto.gov/
Google Patents https://patents.google.com/
Free Patents Online http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Directory of Country Wise Intellectual Property Offices http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp
Review of the PSAR reports by the faculty guide, comprising set of questioner
as below:
1. Does the improvement idea given by student under question no 27 of PSAR report
has potential to take forward as novel project in next semester/year? - Yes/No , and
then its description
2. Does this PSAR report is based on patent related to student’s project?- Yes/No
3. Does student have prepared PSAR report after proper reading of patent? – Yes/No
4. Does the PSAR report of student is of appropriate quality? – Yes/No
5. Does the PSAR activity had contributed in any way to improve the project of this
students? – Yes/No
Structure of the PSAR report
Sr.
No.
Question Answer
Part 1: Patent Search Technique Used
1 Patent search database used*
Select any patent database from where you got particular patent to
prepare PSAR report. (In case you select other, give details in provided
text book).
2 Keywords used for search*
Provide the various keywords, which you have used to search patents.
Minimum THREE keywords.
3 Search string used*
Provide exact phrase consisting of various keywords and Boolean
operators (AND, OR, NOT etc) or wild cards (*, #, ? etc), which are used to
get relevant patents.
4
Number of results/hits
getting*
Give the number of related patents you get after using proper search string.

Part 2: Basic Data of Patented Invention/Bibliographic Data
5 Category/ Field of Invention*
Provide the branch of Engineering with which patent is associated (For
e.g. Mechanical, chemical, electrical etc)
6
Invention is related to
(Class/Area of Invention)*
Provide the end field of technology with which patent is actually
associated. (For e.g. – For automobile field’s student: Patent is associated
with gear, break, engine etc)
6a
IPC class of the studied
patent
The International Patent Classification (IPC) is a hierarchical patent
classification system used in over 100 countries to classify the content of
patents in a uniform manner. It is an indexing system to organize patent
documents from around the world based on the technical field of the
invention, thereby providing a retrieval system by subject matter,
independent of keyword searching.
Mention the IPC class as mentioned in patent document
7 Title of Invention/Patent*
Provide the exact title of patent as shown on patent document which you
are studying.
8 Patent No.
For patent applications which are granted, give the exact patent number
as given by patent office.
9 Application Number* Provide the exact application number of studied patent.
9a
Web link of the studied
patent
Mention the web link of patent studied by you, so it will help for easy
retrieval of same patent after words.
10
Date of Filing/Application*
(DD/MM/YYYY)
Mention the date on which application for patent is made.
11 Priority Date (DD/MM/YYYY)
Mention the FIRST DATE i.e. the date on which application for FIRST
patent is made for this invention in ANY OF THE COUNTRY.
12 Publication/Journal Number
Mention the Publication No./Journal No./Bulletin No etc. in which
application for patent is published.
13
Publication Date
(DD/MM/YYYY)
The date on which application for patent is published in official patent
journal/bulletin.
14 First Filled Country
Mention the country where application for patent is filled first time for
particular invention.
15 Also Published as
Countries where Filled Application No./ Patent No.
Give details of one or more countries and relevant application/patent
number in which application for patent is made to protect SAME
invention.
16
Name of
Inventor/s*
Address/City/Country of Inventor*
Give details of one or more inventors associated with development of invention mentioned under this patent.

17
Name of
Applicant/
Assignee*
Address/City/Country of Applicant*
Give details of one or more Applicant/Assignee associated with development of invention mentioned under this
patent.
18 Applicant for Patent is*
Mention whether the applicant for patent is Individual Person/s or
Organization (Company/College/University etc).
Part 3: Technical Part of Patented Invention
19
Limitation of Prior
Technology/Art*
Give details about, what are the problems associated with previous
available technologies, prior to this patent.
20
Specific Problem
Solved/Objective of Invention*
Give details about objectives and benefits of particular Invention/Patent
and list out the specific problems, which were overcome by technology
behind this patent.
21 Brief about Invention*
Give detailed information about patent, and its technology. Content
should comprise details related to following questions:
What is this Invention?
What are its Components?
What is the role of each component?
What is the flow of process?
How the invention will work? etc…
22 Key learning points*
Give point wise details related to, what each student has learnt after
studying each patent.
23 Summary of Invention*
"Here students have to give details about what they have learnt after
reading each patent document. Make note on following points, IN YOUR
WORDS:
What is the invention about?
What are problems of prior art?
What are the benefits of patented technology? Etc.
Students have to make summary of each patent in not more than 500
words."
24 Number of claims* Give the exact number, How many claims are there in studied patent.
25 Patent Status*
Select any one which is applicable for studied patent – Published
Application/Granted Patent/ In-force Patent/ Failed to maintain the
Patent/Expired Patent
26
How much this invention is
related with your project? *
Select any one indicating % relevance of this patent document with you
project:
> 91 %,
71 to 90%,
< 70 %,
Not related to project

27
Do you have any idea to do
anything around the said
invention to improve it?
(Give short note in not more
than 500 words) *
After studying each patent thoroughly and by answering all the
previous questions, each student has to answer this question very
carefully and give your valuable ideas in a very precise manner.
Here students have to think for any possible modification/
improvement in the studied patent he/she can make so as to maximise
its effectiveness/user friendliness.
Students have to give idea about possible alterations they can make, in
briefly about 500 words.
FAQs related to PSAR
1. Students can study any patent from any patent database related to his/her IDP/UDP and
can make Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) on that patent. Sometimes single
invention is patented by applicant in different countries, hence students have to take care
that they have to select different patented inventions to prepare a summary report.
2. Many patent documents are available as an image copy or scan copy of the original
document. In such cases, students may try to search for same patent via different patent
search engine. If not available, then to copy the content from such patent for generating
Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) on that patent, student can take help of following
software: ABBYY FineReader. It is available at http://finereader.abbyy.com/
3. The above software is a free trial version of ABBYY FineReader, so that at a time you can
select any two pages of patent document and convert them into .doc file.
a. Students have to check the correctness of data copied from text generated by such
software’s with the original patent document while preparing PSAR reports.
4. If any student finds any patent related to his/her IDP/UDP in language other than English,
then after converting image file to .doc file as mentioned in step 2, student can take help of
Google Translator (www.translate.google.com) to translate patent from any language to
English. By doing so student can make a Patent Search and Analysis Report on that patent.
(Generally abstract of every patent is available in English. And by studying such abstract
student can make a decision, whether that particular patent is related to his/her IDP/UDP
or not.)
5. Students can also take help of online patent translator tool available with some databases
(Espacenet & PatentScope) to convert text of other languages to English.
6. While Studying Indian Patents, in most cases student needs to refer following Forms/
Documents to generate PSAR report:
a. Form 1: Application for Grant of Patent (Details about Application No., Applicant-
Inventor & their address, Title of Invention, Filing Date, Priority Date, First filled
country, Details about application filed in another foreign countries and related
application/patent no. etc. will be available from this form)
b. FORM 2 : Provisional/Complete Specification (Details for in-detail information on
Invention, Limitation of prior art, Specific Problem Solved/Objective of invention
and Summary of invention will be available from this form)
c. Claims: Sometimes Claims are mentioned under Form 2, while some time they were

also published under separate document entitled as “Claims”.
7. In case of Indian Patents, where sometimes you find two or more copies of any
form/document. In such cases student have to make Patent Search and Analysis Report
based on the form/document which is the latest one and contains all the necessary
information. (For example – Under view documents option for any patent, there are three
copies of Form 2, like Form-2, Form-2 (11/05/2010), and Form-2 (03/01/2011). Then
students have to study the Form2 (03/01/2011) which contains all updated information.
This rule is applicable for all the forms/documents.
8. While preparing PSAR reports, it is advisable to prepare reports using patents obtained
from different patent databases. (Like one from Indian Patent Office, One from European
Patent Office, One from US Patent Office, One from WIPO Patent database and so on)
Study Material for PSAR
 To know more about Basics of IPR, Patent Searching and How to generate Patent Search and
Analysis Report read the following modules available at the below mentioned web link:
 Module 1- Basics of IPR and Patent
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbVmt2aFRvdjBwa0E/view?usp=sharing
 Module 2- Patent Search Methodology
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbck9QbC1TejV6TlU/view?usp=sharing
 Module-3: Preparation of Patent Search and Analysis Report
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbQVhKNjh0NHZtaWs/view?usp=sharing
 Compendium of Module-3: Interpretation of Patent documents from different
databases:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbd052VVluR1F1ZUk/view?usp=sharing
The material for self-study is also being made available through ‘you tube’ channel of GTU
Innovation Council.
MODULE 1: BASICS OF IPR & PATENTS
Part 1 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P70EJkELI90
Part 2 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOAx8G9PL0
Part 3 of 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He__JjuEKnE&feature=share
MODULE 2: PATENT SEARCH METHODOLOGY
Part 1 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NymTmy3l9r4&feature=youtu.be&a
Part 2 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbD3VBQe_o8&feature=youtu.be&a
Part 3 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeTxQbF1_4c&feature=youtu.be&a
Part 4 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gVl3IGFFM&feature=youtu.be&a
Part 5 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dpujnn8574&feature=youtu.be
HOW TO GENERATE PATENT SEARCH & ANALYSIS REPROT (PSAR)
Part 1 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_y-aB7z0tA&list=PLnNDkCrMqsxl0WvGrEh3w_o99UlnsaQka&index=1
Part 2 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwYYhTLYuU&list=PLnNDkCrMqsxl0WvGrEh3w_o99UlnsaQka&index=2
Part 3 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaqK8LdqXLA&list=PLnNDkCrMqsxl0WvGrEh3w_o99UlnsaQka&index=3
Part 4 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1j4J7h9RgU&list=PLnNDkCrMqsxl0WvGrEh3w_o99UlnsaQka&index=4
Part 5 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irc1A9kfHIw&list=PLnNDkCrMqsxl0WvGrEh3w_o99UlnsaQka&index=5

V. Business Model Canvas (BMC) Exercise
All student teams have to develop and prepare a BMC with respect to their project if
applicable. They also need to upload the prepared report on BMC at project site.
Detailed circular/guideline related to all canvas including BMC is already available at:
http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/09092014_04.pdf
Objectives of BMC:
Business model canvas is used to validate the market significance of products and services
which will be of technology nature in this case. Technology projects are often solutions or
processes that solve a technical problem. However the market implementation of such
solutions also require that the problem solution is designed to overcome not just the
technical barriers but also market and business related barriers of costs, customer reach and
collaborations and those that pertain to the practical nature of limited initial capacities
within the team.
Thus business model canvas can be used to visualise such market problems and customer
expectations. This exercise will increase the market potential and penetration of technology
goods and services. This will make them more effective in market.
This exercise will bring discussions on viability and cost effectiveness into picture along with
their clear impact. This exercise will enable students to have a clear understanding on the
steps required to ensure that whatever solution they develop as their project should have a
user who can afford it with desired needs. This exercise also helps students to understand
the true value of the proposed solution.
Duration of the exercise: All teams are required to prepare BMC canvas based on their
project, and then its presentation is to be made by each team, where all other team will
comment and suggest on the presenting team’s project canvas. Colleges/departments can
certainly take required time, to accomplish it properly.
Process to conduct such hands on workshop:
The process of conducting such workshop will be nearly the same as the ideation canvas
exercise on page 3 of above hyperlinked circular.
You may refer more details about this at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s

BMC canvas for IDP/UDP exercise for BE final year students
For description about various terminologies and FAQ on BMC, refer page no 15-18 of
following file: http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14SEP/09092014_04.pdf
 Make students are aware about the objective of this activity.
 Internal guide must has to verify the uploaded file and report related to individual
teams activity/project. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related
to canvas and report. The same tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s
account.
necessary action.

VI. Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE)
NOTE: All student teams have to generate PATENT DRAFTING EXERCISE (PDE) forms ONLY
from http://projects.gtu.ac.in/
As a part of BE semester 8 students project work, GTU has introduced “Patent Drafting
Exercise (PDE)” in 2013-14. This activity is designed to train our students about provisional
patent filing procedure in India, its requirements, necessary forms, fees, associated time limit
etc. To support this activity GTU has organized several Faculty Development Programmes
(FDP) to train faculty from all GTU affiliated engineering colleges about this new initiative. All
such trained faculty are supposed to help final year BE students at their respective colleges, to
train final year students about the PDE.
This is in continuation of the “Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR)”, which was prepared
by all students during semester 7 of BE as a part of Prior Art Search (PAS) activity. PSAR was
introduced to make students aware about patents, patent information websites, patent
search, patent documents etc. in the area of their final year project so that they can improve
the novelty of the final year projects by knowing what has been done before.
Objectives of Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE)
● To train all students about provisional patent filing procedure in India
● To make all students familiar with Patent filing forms (Form- 1, 2 & 3)
● To make students aware about the various requirements/data to be provided for filling
of such forms.
● To teach students about various patent filing forms, fees and time limit associated with
various operations associated in patent filing procedure in India.
Key guidelines for Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE)
1. This exercise is applicable to all BE (Semester 8) students.
2. This exercise is to be done by team of students doing project together (One PDE for
one project).
3. To prepare the PDE, every student team has to assume that their project is novel and
innovative. The team prepares document/forms, that would be required if the team
were to file a patent on the work done by them for the Final Year project.
4. For filing a provisional patent, three basic forms are required. These forms are Form
1 (Application for Patent), Form 2 (Provisional/Complete Specification) and Form 3
(Information and undertaking under section 8 of Patent Act). For completing the
required work under PDE, every student team has to prepare these three forms for
their final year project.
5. This exercise can be done even though IDP/UDP project is still on-going.
6. PDE is to be carried out for project undergoing/completed in BE (Semester 8) only.
For those students who have carried out two different projects during semester 7 &

8 (with same team/different team or any change in team member or project
definition), the PDE is to be prepared for the BE (Semester 8) project only.
7. All the student teams have to prepare and get ready with their draft patent filing
forms in word files till the facility to generated Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE) will
make live on project site.
8. The forms/documents prepared/generated via this Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE)
are to be submitted along with the project report by all student teams.
9. The PDE is just a mock exercise about preparing provisional patent filing
documents/forms. The documents generated at the end of this exercise are not for
filing with any patent office. This activity is for learning purpose ONLY.
Study material for PDE
Overview of Drafting Provisional Patent
Part – 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pZYu-28fo
Part – 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XX2NUVpPJg
Part – 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg3fAw2oreI
Part – 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al_eDO7Kg2g
Patent Drafting Exercise
Part – 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCDNY0AG8UU
Part – 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSnj1ukOfs
Part – 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diF6AD_TfKw
 Internal guide must has to verify the generated PDE report related to individual
teams activity/project. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related
to PDE report. The same tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s account.
necessary action.

VII. Plagiarism Search Report/Certificate
Anti-plagiarism check certificate for the final year project report
All the student teams have to check their project report for plagiarism, which indicates
percentage similarity of the languages used during drafting project report, using a good
plagiarism-checking/search software package. All student teams have to get plagiarism search
certificate using Turnitin plagiarism checker: http://turnitin.com/ .
Turnitin checks for potential plagiarism and close the feedback loop between instructors and
students. It easily provides feedback to students and assess their work quickly. Turnitin is a paid
online service to check plagiarism content of research papers and reports. GTU will provide
free accounts to colleges and provide specific login credentials for turnitin.
Colleges were Master of Engineering course is running, have already been assigned login
credential for turnitin to check plagiarised content of ME project reports, and such colleges have
to use the same credentials for plagiarism content check of BE project report. Colleges were ME
course is not running, will be provided newer turnitin credentials for the said purpose.
The student has to check his/her dissertation thesis for plagiarism, which indicates % similarity of
the languages used during drafting, using Paid database “Turnitin”(www.turnitin.com).
GTU has provided/will provide the Id & Password to each institute for Turnitin software.
Colleges have to upload all their project reports on turnitin web, and report of plagiarised
content will be provided by portal after sometime (one or two days)
Once report is downloaded from “Turnitin”, last two pages of report comprises of % similarity
with priorly published literatures. Preferably it should be less than 30%. If the similarity is > 30
% then the Project Report/thesis will not accepted for university examination.
Students have to take a print of last two pages (or in some case three pages)of report and it is
required to be signed by himself/herself as well as by respective guide and has to include in
thesis after compliance certificate.
The guide has to mention in the Certificate that he/she has received the plagiarism report of
respective student and he/she agreed that it is acceptable to them.
Scaned PDF copy of that turnitin report is required to be uploaded on PMMS portal by each team
doing final year project/IDP/UDP with verification signature of concerned internal project guide.
Note: Students are required to attach such plagiarisms certificate/report in to their project
report; as well they are also required to upload same certificate/report on project site:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ . THE REPORT SHOULD NOT HAVE MORE THAN 30% OF THE PLAGIARISED
CONTENT.
 Internal guide must has to verify the uploaded plagiarisms report file related to individual
teams activity/project. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related to
project report. The same tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s account.
 Based on the inputs from internal guide/HOD/Principal student team has to take necessary
action.

VIII. Final Project Report
Project Report (a spiral bound hard copy) - It is required to be a report of the work, done by
the team of students during the academic semester/year. The Report is to be submitted
whether the project has been completed successfully or the work is going to be carried out
by next semester/year students.
Basic format and requirements:
Paper must be White Royal Executive Bond, 85 gsm Paper of A4 size only.
One side Laser Printing: Entire Report either Black or Colour
(Title & Certificate must be in Colour)
Line Spacing: 1.5
Printing Margin: 1.25 inch Left Margin
1.0 inch all Side Margin (Top + Bottom + Right)
Font: Times New Roman only
Font size: (Text should start from next line after Title)
MAIN TITLE: 18 BOLD UNDERLINE (Alignment: Left) (Title Case)
SUB TITLE: 14 BOLD UNDERLINE (Alignment: Left) (Title Case)
MATTER: 12 Normal (Alignment: Justify) (Title Case)
 Figures must be with outside border & in centre of whole margin. All details in the
Figures must be clearly readable.
 Write figure number at the bottom of figure, E.g.” Fig. 5(a)”, followed by title of
figure in title case.
 Throughout text figure must be cited as “Fig.5 (a)”.
 Write table number at the top of table, E.g. “Table 1” : followed by title of table in
title case
 All paragraphs must start without ‘tab’.
 Unified line spacing between paragraphs.
 Start new chapter from new page.
 No blank area at the end of each page except last page of chapter.
 All equations in the middle of line with equation no. at the end of line within small
brackets, E.g.(2).
 No dots between equation and equation no. space before and after equation sign.
 Chapter heading must be identical for each new chapter as shown below.
Guidelines for Final Year Project Report: The Project report should have following
components:
First Page
Title of the Project, IDP/UDP project, Name and Id. No. of the Students who
have worked for the project, Academic year, Name of Industry – if it is an IDP
Project, Name(s) of Industry and Faculty Guide(s).

Next Pages Index
Next Pages
 Acknowledgements
 Certificates from college (Suggested Format)
 If you have done an IDP, and if the industry finds the solution useful
kindly attach certificate of proof of your claim and attach along with
the report. Ask the industry to precisely mention what benefit they got
from your solution implementation in the company letterhead.
 Certificate generated from project site for Completion of all activities at
PMMS portal of GTU.
 Certificate obtained from the Plagiarism checking software.
Undertaking About Originality Of Work (Kindly refer Annexure 2 on
Page No. 4 of the attached link document)
Chapter 1
Title : Introduction
1.1 Problem Summary (What exact problem are you trying to solve?) and
Introduction,
1.2 Aim and objectives of the project
1.3 Problem Specifications
1.4 Brief literature review and Prior Art Search (PAS) about the project. [It
should include Web search/research publication, User feedback,
Vendor/market search, Patent Search (Do not attach the whole PSAR
report, mention just one page gist/summary)].
1.5 Plan of their work
1.6 Materials / Tools required.
Chapter 2
Design: Analysis, Design Methodology and Implementation Strategy.
Explain your work including Observation Matrix, Ideation canvas, and
Product development canvas in the context of your project. For better
understanding about these canvases, you may refer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbMDZiN1VsQ05Edmc/view?usp=sha
ring or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbNVF3d3RCMFM1Szg/view?usp=sha
ring (Explain every step in the above canvases with your own narration
based on your understanding and inferences. Also attach the
photocopy/image of your canvases in A4 equivalent size).
Chapter 3
Implementation:
Should covering actual implementation, Results, Reports, Snapshots, Testing
and Verification.

NOTE:
 This is a sample format, any college may amend this format based on the need, but it
has to ensure that all above listed items must to be included in project report.
 The project report copy which is to be uploaded on project site, need to include above
items.
The project reports have to be submitted to departmental HODs of student’s College/
Institution in spiral bound or hard copy before the practical/Viva-Voce examination. In
absence of the project guide in any unavoidable circumstances HOD/suitable
authority/other faculty members can sign on the certificates.
Further the complete project report needs to be uploaded in soft copy to the GTU web
portal specially designed for this purpose: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ (Every team needs to
ensure completion of all tasks at project portal)
Chapter 4
 Summary of the results. Advantages of your work/results/methodologies.
Usefulness with respect to existing solutions. Scope of future work.
 Benchmarking your project with existing product/services or solutions.
Mention the Unique Features of your Innovation/Project (IDP/UDP).
References
In the alphabetic ascending order
Citations to be provided throughout the Report.
Appendix
Apart from above listed items, project report will also include below information (as
an appendix to project report), submitted/generated via project management site:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ . These have to be represented to external examiner as
well.]
 Copy of four Periodic Progress Reports (PPR) as submitted by each student,
along with guide comment on it.– For both semesters.
 Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) as submitted by each student, along
with guide comment on it.– For semester 7 ONLY
 Design Engineering canvases: AEIOU Summary, Empathy Summary, Ideation,
Product Development and its report generated in line with the existing project.–
For semester 7 ONLY
 Business Model Canvas (BMC) and its report generated in line with the existing
project. – For semester 8 ONLY
 Draft provisional patent filling forms generated during Patent Drafting Exercise
(PDE). – For semester 8 ONLY
 Copy of paper published on the basis of this Project / Patent filed (if applicable).
(Kindly attach any paper you have published based upon the work related to
your project in any national/international conferences.) -– For both Semesters

NOTE:
 No student/college has to submit any hard bound project copy/CD to GTU, as GTU will
receive the data from student’s profile in PMMS portal. Every College may preserve
project data of all students/teams in a soft copy on a CD rom for further record.
 Students who are working on projects related to VISHWAKARMA YOJANA, have to
work as per instructions from their guide to cover all project activities.
Students need to submit two copies of their project report in spiral bound as follows:
1. Student Copy
2. Guide/Department/College Copy
 Internal guide must has to verify the uploaded project report file related to
individual teams activity/project. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/
comments related to project report. The same tasks can also be performed from
HOD/Principal’s account.
necessary action.

IX. Certificate generation for completion of all activities in IDP/UDP
from PMMS portal
A Special functionality is developed at project site: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/, to generate
completion certificate mentioning the status of various activities performed by each student
of every team. This certificate is to be generated by each group member individually. This
certificate will mention about weather each student has completed all tasks or not, whether
any activity is still pending etc.
All students are required to generate this certificate via project site, and are required to
attach the same with their project report along with their respective guide’s signature.
This certificate will include status report for completion of following activities being carried
out via project site during semester 7 and 8:
1. Submission of four Periodic Progress Reports (PPR) upload by each student and
comments by guide on the same. (Individual student activity) - For both semesters.
2. Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) generated by each student and comments by
guide on the same. (Individual student activity) – For semester 7 ONLY.
3. Design Engineering canvases: AEIOU Summary, Empathy Summary, Ideation,
Product Development canvases upload (Team activity) – For semester 7 ONLY
4. Business Model Canvas and its report upload. (Team activity) – For semester 8 ONLY
5. Generation of Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE) forms. (Team activity) - – For semester
8 ONLY
6. Final project report uploads. (Team activity) - For both semesters.
7. Uploading of the plagiarism search report. (Team activity) - For both semesters.
 Make students are aware about the objective of this activity.
 Internal guide must has to verify the generated certificate and sign the same in
student’s printed copy of project report.
 In absence of the project guide in any unavoidable circumstances HOD/suitable
authority/other faculty members can sign on the certificates.

STUDENT’S MOVEMENT FROM B.E.
SEMESTER 7 TO SEMESTER 8
X. Guideline for student’s movement from B.E. 7th semester to 8th
semester
Process flow for student’s movement to 8th
semester
1. Open http://projects.gtu.ac.in/
2. Login with your 7th semester credentials and you will be redirected to Dashboard
screen wherein you will see this message: “This activity has not been allowed”.
3. Please click on “Move to 8th semester” Root Menu (A) as mentioned in below
screenshot
4. On Move to 8th semester screen, you will find button namely “Move to 8th semester”
(B)
5. Clicking on “Move to 8th semester” button, your semester will be changed from 7 to
8
6. You will be able to perform 8th semester activities starting from Team Formation.
Process Flow on how to manually generate Completion Certificate for 7th semester (for
students who had not generated completion certificate during 7th semester)
The students who exists in PMMS during 7th semester and have not generated Completion
Certificate (for 7th semester) will see this message after PMMS Login: “Please complete all
the activities of 7th semester and generate completion certificate for the same in order to
move to 8th semester”.
B
B
A
B

Please find below screen for reference:
All such students are require to follow below process in order to move into 8th semester:
1. Students are require to submit (scan copy or photo copy via email) letter
properly signed and sealed from the college faculty and HOD, clearly stating
that all your project work of 7th semester has been successfully completed and
verified.
2. Such letter is required to be printed on college letter head.
3. Format of such letter is provided as an annexure to this guideline document.
4. Students are required to submit the scan copy or photo of annexure document
on official letter head of college with filled details, via email to s4@gtu.edu.in .
Mention the subject line as “Annexure: Letter format for students who had not
generated completion certificate during 7th semester”
Primary set of rules for student’s movement from 7th
semester to 8th
semester
1. The students who exist in 7th semester and have not generated Completion
Certificate (for 7th semester) will not be able to move to 8th semester.
2. The students who have been moved to 8th semester by University PMMS team and
had not formed any team in 7th semester, will not be allowed to create Team in 8th
semester with below options:
 Old Project with Old Team
 Old Project with New Team
 New Project with Old Team
3. The students who exist in 7th semester in PMMS and were DETAIN STUDENTS will
not be able to login to PMMS and consequently will not be able to move to 8th
semester.
4. The students who exist in 7th semester in PMMS and will be able to move to 8th
semester. For these students, 8th Semester detain scenario work as mentioned
below:
 If the student moves to 8th semester through “Move to 8th semester interface”,
and later on detains in any exam then, such student will be detained for 8th
semester and locked (will not be able to Login) and his/her all 8th semester
activates (if performed) will be removed from PMMS.

 If the student does not move to 8th semester (through “Move to 8th semester
interface”) and has created team in 7th semester in PMMS, then he will remain
in 7th semester in PMMS, but when in next academic year, 7th semester is re-
open then, he/she will be able to view only his/her old team profile but would
not be able to perform any PMMS activity for 7th semester.
interface”) and has not created team in 7th semester in PMMS, then he will
remain in 7th semester in PMMS and when in next academic year, 7th semester
is re-open then he will be able to perform all 7th semester PMMS activity.
For those students who are earlier detained in 8th semester and they are relived
while current/upcoming 8th semester tenure, will have to contact respective HOD or
Principal and have to request for their PMMS registration (Student registration for
detained students) from their respective PMMS account.
Once their Student Registration is done by HOD or Principal, they will be able to form
team. However, they will not be allowed to create Team with below options as they
have not performed any past project and were not be part of any team yet:
5. The students who exist in 7th semester in PMMS and if falls under UFM Case (for 7th
semester) then he/she will not be able to login to PMMS and consequently will not
be able to move to 8th semester.
6. The students who exist in 7th semester in PMMS are able to move to 8th semester.
For such students, who moved to 8th semester, UFM scenario works as mentioned
below:
 If student moves to 8th semester through “Move to 8th semester interface”,
then University PMMS team can add him/her in UFM student’s list for 8th
semester and he/she will be locked (will not be able to login) and his/her all 8th
semester activities (if performed) will be removed from PMMS.
 If student does not move to 8th semester (through “Move to 8th semester
interface”) and has created team in 7th semester in PMMS, then he will remain
in 7th semester in PMMS and University PMMS team cannot add him/her in
UFM case for 8th semester. When in next academic year, 7th semester is re-
open then, he/she will be able to view only his/her old team profile but would
not be able to perform any PMMS activity for 7th semester.
interface”) and has not created team in 7th semester in PMMS, then he/she will
remain in 7th semester in PMMS and University will not be able to add him/her
in UFM case for 8th semester. When in next academic year, 7th semester is re-
open then, he/she will be able to perform all 7th semester PMMS activity.

XI. Guideline for student’s project team formation in 8th semester
(Options and process for team and/or project change during 8th semester)
Process flow for student’s project team formation in 8th
semester
1. Open http://projects.gtu.ac.in/
2. Student will Login with username and password
3. On Team Registration page, student will select the appropriate option for following
set of questions:
DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE WITH 7TH
SEMESTER PROJECT DURING 8TH
SEMESTER?
Yes No
Select Option: Old Team/New Team Select Option: Old Team/New Team
If select Old
Team, then
team members
of the old team
will be displayed
and student can
create project
request with old
project and old
team members/
team leader
If select New Team *, these
two options will appear
Individual /Team base
If select Old
Team, then
team members
of the old team
will be displayed
and student can
create project
request with
new project and
old team
members/team
leader
If select New Team, these two
options will appear
Individual /Team base
If select
Individual,
student can
create project
request with
new project
and individual
team
If select Team
base, student
can create
project
request with
new project
with new
team
members
If select
Individual,
student can
create project
request with
old project
and Individual
team
If select
Team base
student can
create
project
request with
old project
with new
team
members
* Select option, If students wants to add any newer member/remove any of earlier
member from their team for old project.
4. In options mentioned under above point no.3, if student selects New Project or New
Team, then following further options will be visible to students:
New Project New Team
Reason for project change:
 7th
semester project is completed and
working on new project
 Company is blacklisted/closed/changed
 Project definition is not enough for
continuation in 8th semester
 Other
Reason for Team change:
 Any team member is either detained
or removed
 Other
He/She has to select one answer from above options. Selected option will be saved
in system and on List.

5. Project request will be sent to Internal Guide, HOD and Principal for approval.
6. Internal Guide or HOD or Principal can approve/reject the Team Registration
Request. And accordingly, Project Team will be formed.
7. Team Leader will be able to do following activities:
 Request to add Team Member
 Request to change Internal Guide
 Request to change External Guide
Approval for above requests will be sent to HOD and Principal.
8. Internal Guide will able to do following activities:
 Request to remove student
Approval for above request will be sent to HOD and Principal.
Screenshots for PMMS team registration during 8th
semester (different cases):
CASE 1: Old Project with Old Team – Year long project with the same team as of 7th
semester.
CASE 2: Old Project with New Team (Individual Project) – If any member is failed, detained
or joining any other group.

CASE 3: Old Project with New Team (Team Project) – If any member is detained, removed
or newer member is been added to the group who was not been present in team during
earlier semester.
CASE 4: New Project with Old Team – Same team as of 7th semester is working on newer
project during 8th semester, with no change in team members.

CASE 5: New Project with New Team – If any member is detained, removed or newer
member is been added to the group who was not present in team during earlier semester.
Primary set of rules for student’s project team formation in 8th
semester
1. Team will be formed based on the answers of the set of questions submitted by
student.
2. Once any student submits Project Request (Team Registration) with submitting team
member details, then those set of questions will not be visible to the respective
team members/team leader. But if the project requests is rejected, then set of
questions will be visible to respective team member/team leader.
3. If student selects Old Project with Old Team, then project details (Project Title,
Abstract, Internal Guide, HOD, Principal, etc.), team members and team leader will
be same as earlier (7th semester) and cannot be altered.
4. If student selects Old Project with New Team (Individual or Team Base), then
student cannot change any project information details (Project Title, Abstract,
Internal Guide, HOD, Principal, etc) but can make change in team member details.
5. If student selects New Project with Old Team, then student cannot change any team
member or team leader details but can make change in project details.
6. Student can select only 8th semester students (a. those who had generated
completion certificate and then moved to 8th semester in PMMS, b. those who have
not generated completion certificate please refer: Guideline for student’s movement
from B.E. 7th semester to 8th semester available in this document) as his/her team
members and team leader. This rule is applicable on all options of Team Formation
(New Project and Old Team, Old Project and Old Team, New Project and New Team,
Old Project and New Team).

7. If the team is formed, then no team member of that team (including team leader)
will be able to submit Team Registration Request.
8. During team registration, student cannot add any team leader/team member (of
other Approved Project Request) as a part of his/her Team.
9. Team leader cannot be the part of multiple Pending Project Requests, but any team
member can be the part of multiple Pending Project Requests.
10. Considering point (8), if any team member is a part of multiple Pending Project
Requests, then he/she has to choose one Team. Only after that, Internal Guide or
HOD or Principal can approve those project requests.
11. During team registration, if team leader selects Interdisciplinary option, then he/she
must have to select at least two internal guides. This process rule will only be applied
in the case of new project option during team registration.
12. Team cannot select the same person as internal guide and external guide both.
13. During team formation, team can select HOD and Principal as their internal guide.
14. During team formation, detain and UFM students are restricted to be part of any
team.
15. Each team will have unique team id.
16. In any case, whenever team is formed, it will be assigned new team id.
17. The students who have been moved to 8th semester through university PMMS team
and had not formed team in 7th semester, will not be allowed to create team with
below options:
For those students who are detained in 8th semester earlier and they are relived while
upcoming 8th semester tenure, will have to contact respective HOD or Principal and
have to request for their PMMS registration (Student registration for detained students)
from their respective PMMS account.
Once their student registration is done manually, they will be able to form team.
However, they will not be allowed to create team with below options as they have not
performed any past project and were not be the part of any team yet:

14. Suggestion for Evaluation of Projects (For Internal & External
Examiners)
In order to justify the attempts of the B.E. Semester 7th & 8th students for their first ever
attempt to implement IDP/UDP at GTU, Faculty members and external examiners are
requested to refer following suggestions for evaluation of Project.
 Students are to be evaluated for their innovative ideas, however small, it can be and
not for size of the project. A semi-finished project done properly with innovation may
fetch more score than fully finished ordinary project works.
 Basic understanding of student for project and related methodologies for its
implementations need to be analysed, using your expertise. “Learning by doing” is the
mantra for the students, so please evaluate the learnings of the students rather only
evaluating the final outcomes of the projects. If they followed the process properly,
then the outcomes must be better. Encourage students to take risk by celebrating
failure of the students in projects.
 In case of students, who have fully implemented their project in B.E. they are to be
encouraged. Also discuss future scope of update/modifications to current project,
which can be taken up in coming academic year by upcoming batch of students.
 If project is not fully implemented, you are requested to provide inputs for their future
implementations and availability of various sources to help them.
 If students have not reached to significant level in project then please analyse the
causes for the same and report to university in feedback form for the Project, with
your comments.
 Students are required to show case a proto type/proof of concept of their efforts in
contextual branches in possible cases depending upon the feasibility and cost.
 Both external and internal examiners are required to evaluate students for final year
project examination with equal weightage.
 Industry mentor from particular project or mentors from industries related to the area
of project may be invited for final project examination nominated by council of deans.
 Examiner is required to note specific innovative projects during examination and
mention in feedback from which are useful to MSMEs, particular user or society in
large. University will recognize such innovations and appreciate the efforts of the
teams to encourage them and the coming generations.
 If the team has taken projects from any user like industries, expert faculty or similar
sources verify the joint efforts of students and see whether students have interacted
with them and documented the works properly throughout year.

15. Annexure 1: Letter format for students who had not generated
completion certificate during 7th semester *
College Letter Head
Date:
FOR FINAL YEAR B.E. STUDENTS WHOSE 7TH SEMESTER PMMS ACTIVITIES
WERE NOT FINISHED ON PMMS PORTAL
To,
Gujarat Technological University,
The following student(s) ____________________________, having enrolment number(s)
______________________ has/have not timely finished the PMMS tasks on portal and hence
completion certificate was not generated, during 7th
semester. College faculty
______________________working as _(designation)___ have checked and ensured for
completion of all PMMS activities in physical mode and allowing for 8th
semester project
work.
College Name & Code:
Department:
Project Title:
Faculty Name, Designation & Signature HOD Name & Signature:
(Who had checked all details)
College Seal
*Note: Students are required to submit the scan copy or photo of this document on official letter head of
college with filled details, via email to s4@gtu.edu.in. Mention the subject line as “Annexure: Letter format for
students who had not generated completion certificate during 7th
semester” – This note is not required to
be printed on letter head.

16. Annexure 2: Industrial Shodh Yatras (ISYs) Steps & Final Year
Projects
Guidelines for Final Year B.E. students - For finalizing the
Problem Definitions of their Final Year Projects
REFERENCES:
 Regarding IDP/UDP activities and its time line, please refer to
http://gtu.ac.in/circulars/15May/13052015_11.pdf
 Regarding FAQs related to IDP/UDP please refer
page 2 -5 of http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/12July/19072012_01.pdf Or
page 2-4 of http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/14Jul/07072014_01.pdf
Note: It is suggested that the GTU Innovation Club must be activated in every College/
Institution, if it is not in activated mode. The club membership includes one faculty
member from every branch. This faculty member of the GTU Innovation Club may be
called the Branch Coordinator of the particular college. The branch coordinator will keep
track of the above process in coordination with students and Faculty Guides.
The Concept of IDP and UDP: Every student of GTU is creative enough to solve real life
challenges.
The students are required to form teams of 3-4 students (the team size vary depending
upon the project type, hence there is no any restrictions on team size) for working on their
final year project. With the guidance of a Faculty Member, they will start working to find a
problem, the solution of which would constitute their final year project. The problem may
be found by studying the products or processes of an industry through a Shodhyatra. A
project based on such a problem is called an Industry Defined Project (IDP).
Alternatively a project may be based upon the needs of NGOs, informal sectors,
Govt. organizations and society at large. Students can take a research problem identified by
the Faculty Members or it could be the idea of student, which is approved by the Faculty
Guide. Such a project is called a User Defined Project (UDP).
Note: If some projects need more than 1 year to reach to a stage of final product (ready to
be used), the teams and guides can carry on the same project from previous year, in
subsequent years, exactly from where it had been left by the previous teams. GTU believes
that in such iterations and cycles, many final year projects can become useful products for
end users.
WHAT IS AN INNOVATION?: It has been suggested that, if one codified a particular
challenge in a particular environment and tries to make new interventions, either in
material, method or application, then it can lead to an innovation.
“Conceptually, any innovation implies substantial improvement in the ways of doing things,
producing goods or providing services. It may involve a new use of an existing resource

or producing (or delivering) existing goods or services through new methods (or new
instruments/materials)” (Gupta, 1992)
To develop inclusive innovations, one needs to develop solutions pertaining to a specific
challenge and look for how he/she/they can develop interventions which can cater to a
different (a) space (b) sector (c) social engagements (d) skill sets and knowledge.
Action Points for Colleges/Institutes and for Students
Phase I (Pre IDP/UDP exposure program)
(Within 10 days after completion of 6th semester exam)
In this phase, the Institute/College needs to explain to their students the basic idea of
IDP/UDP. Colleges/departments need to explain the entire innovation cycles, the IDP/UDP
lifecycle, necessary steps needed and other guidelines. Such an exposure/literacy/
sensitization program may be arranged in any 2-3 days after their 6th semester exam is over
by the respective department/college. (Leaders: Some of the colleges have taken the lead
by organizing such training during the sixth semester, during the week-ends.) The program
may also contain briefing about interventions by the University. GTU’s Student Start-up
Policy and various aspects about innovation and its impact. The program should motivate
and encourage students to innovate through their final year project.
Refer- http://gtu.ac.in/circulars/15May/13052015_16.pdf
Phase II (Industrial Shodh Yatra: ISY)
(Within the period of summer vacation (one month), before start of semester seven)
The students are required to form teams of 3-4 students (in general) for working on their
final year project. With the guidance of faculty members they will start working towards
Industrial Shodh Yatra (ISY) to define a problem statement on which they will work for their
final year project.

Students team needs to identify the domain (area of work) in which they would be
interested in working during their final year project in consultation with stakeholders like
faculty members, industry persons, experts etc. Students need to interact with multiple set
of users while sampling the inputs while defining the IDP/UDP.
Keeping in mind their domain of interest, the group shall identify local industries or
workshops/users. One group should visit 3-4 such identified places to visit and adopt
suitable measures based on design thinking to locate a challenge. After the first visit, the
group shall return and discuss their experience and primary findings with the faculty guide
and the rest of the groups and peers in the class and outside stakeholders for inputs.
The visit to industries for study of a product or process is called an Industrial Shodh Yatra
(ISY).
Notes:
 ISY is beneficial for all students whether they want to work upon an IDP or a UDP.
After ISY students need to decide with the guidance of their faculty guide whether to
select an IDP or a UDP.
 When the academic session starts, the visits to industries should be done so that the
academic schedule is also adhered to fully.
Phase III Organization of workshops for different design canvases
(Please read AEIOU Framework for Observation Activity as mentioned in subsequent pages
before reading following paragraph)
The Institute/College will arrange workshops for different design canvases like Empathy,
Ideation and similar design thinking practices. All student-teams are required to participate
in the workshops, involving whole of the class and prepare necessary documents. Students’
teams need to summarize AEIOU framework activity for observation part in Empathy phase.
Then they need to document scouted challenges along with user’s need with the help of
Mind Mapping technique for better understanding. After discussion with Faculty Guide and
other groups, the final problem statement has to be defined by clearly mentioning the
user’s need and problems faced in the domain. All teams need to validate their problem
statements with its users.
Every student-team should fill up the data in the Empathy Canvas (in A1 sheet) by noting
down all insights from inter-action with the user. Thereafter, each team will present their
canvas in a mini-exhibition format. During this mini-exhibition session, the corresponding
users, may be invited. Each team of students is required to take photograph of each
canvas/framework/poster and store its soft copy of documentation. As per university
circular, each team will upload their data online at the university PMMS portal:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/

Four-Step Process for Defining a Final Year Problem Statement
STEP 1: Scouting for the problem
(Within the period of summer vacation (one month), before start of semester seven)
STEP 2: Secondary Research/ Prior Art Search
(During first month of semester seven)
STEP 3: Problem Definition
(During first month of semester seven)
STEP 4: Registering onto PMMS portal by GTU
(Within six weeks of semester seven)
STEP 1: Scouting for the problem - The problem may be found by studying the
products or processes of an industry through an Industrial Shodh Yatra (ISY). A project
based on such a problem is called an Industry Defined Project (IDP). (As per details
mentioned under Point 1 and Point 3 in following pages)
Student teams will be using AEIOU framework for the observation activity. (As per details
mentioned under Point 4 in following pages)
AEIOU stands for Activity, Environment, Interactions, Objects and Users. Hence every team
needs to observe for these basic elements in their selected domain. This framework will
help to decide unarticulated needs of users. Students need to go through the process of
Observation, Immersion (role playing) and engagement (interview) to get their
requirements for the projects.
STEP 2: Secondary Research/ Prior Art Search - Students team need to search for
patents and other related literature for their selected problem statement to check the
already existing ways to solve similar problem and to find out about existing similar
innovations. The team needs to upload Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) on the
Project Mentoring and Monitoring System (PMMS) in due course. Please see the detailed
description in this document about steps for secondary research/PAS. (As per details
mentioned under PSAR activity in earlier pages of guideline, and Point 2 in following pages)
STEP 3: Problem Definition - Final scouting through Diachronic and Synchronic analysis:
After primary observations, the team of students shall perform Diachronic and Synchronic
Analysis of the product/system/process being examined. (As per details mentioned under
Point 5 in following pages)
Every team of students needs to discuss their visit of Industries with the faculty guide and
with other groups by using the diachronic and synchronic analysis methodology and by
preparing images/charts/diagrams for explaining flow of ideas clearly. The problem
statement, to be defined, shall be based on the user study and needs, role play,
observation, empathy, primary prior art search and understanding of the macro system, etc.

By the process of observation, immersion and engagement (As per details mentioned under
Point 4 in following pages)
students would be able to understand the problem of industries/users whether the
problem/possible innovation is in form, feature or function and/or material, method or
application. After the observation, the perception of the team of students for the problems
may change or even differ from the previous one. And from those inferences students need
to define their final problem statement after iterative analysis again and again. Each team
needs to frame a precise problem definition, after understanding all the necessary aspects
of the problem.
Group discussion/presentation with faculty guide and other teams and stakeholders: After
the industry visit, prior art search, diachronic & synchronic analysis and other design
thinking practices, each team needs to discuss their activities and about their scouted
challenges from industry with the faculty guide and other groups in the class. On the basis of
further discussion and inputs, the team needs to define the exact problem statement for
which they will be working during Final Year Project/IDP/UDP. Problem identification by the
group members is overlapped by the problem identification by the user/s and the problem
identification by the various stakeholder/s other than them. On the basis of all these inputs
the final and precise problem statement is generated.
STEP 4: Registering onto PMMS PMMS (Project Mentoring and Monitoring
System) portal by GTU: - Within first six weeks of semester seven, every team must
register themselves through online portal called PMMS by giving the title of the project, the
names of the team members and name of the Faculty Guide. For an IDP, the name of the
industry and the Industry-Mentor for an IDP must also be specified. GTU has created this IT
tool so that the mentors can work along with the faculty guides and students to help make
the project better. This platform will also track progress and challenges in every 15 days and
will keep the faculty guide, students, and the external mentors connected.
Point 1: Notes on Scouting for the Problem
STEP 1.1 Scouting for the Problem: METHODOLOGY OF DESIGN DRIVEN
INNOVATION (DDI)
An engineer is a problem solver and as such he/she has to inculcate the process of thinking
as a designer to develop new products or processes. Every team of students should use the
methodology of Design Driven Innovation for their project. This Design Driven Innovation
process is based on Design Thinking Approach.
“Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the
designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the
requirements for business success.” —Tim Brown, President and CEO of IDEO
Design Thinking can be applied to solve all kind of problems from the simplest to complex
problems. Design Thinking is a mind-set that is possibility driven, Option focused and
iterative. This can be divided into six interactive as well as iterative steps shown below. Each

steps of design thinking involve rigorous and interactive efforts from defining a particular
problem to deploy the solution in the market. Every step would involve iteration to check
the idea/solution with the previous one to move forward.
Design Thinking - Human Centric Approach
STEP 1.2 Immerse: Role Playing
In this activity a student need to become the user and actually live their experiences. During
this process the innovator needs to envisage him/her as the user of the desired product and
identify, codify various needs from his/her perspective. During the immersion process, students
and their Guide can get insights about the non-codified and undocumented needs of the
contemporary user/industry.
Being the user and primary problem identification:
The group shall be divided into two: Few members will be ‘role-playing the users’ and
identifying the problems by first-hand experience and the rest of the group members will be
video-graphing the interviews (primary users, secondary users, stakeholders, etc.) The group
members that would be role-playing are encouraged to perform the function of users in the
industry they had visited. For example, for problem identification in a steering wheel of a car,
the group must learn how to drive a car and understand how the steering wheel is being used
and in how many different ways it can be used. The members that would be video-graphing are
to record the videos at high FPS (frame per second) to enable them to view the videos in slow
motion at a later stage for reference and better understanding.
The other group members will interview the entire bandwidth of stakeholders. For example,
while identifying the problems pertaining to the steering wheel, the stake holders would
include the car manufacturer, distributers, mechanic, driver, owner, various vendors (leather,
nylon, adhesives, etc), various people on the shop floor or assembly line that assemble the part
into the car, etc.

A visit to 3-5 places would help the group identify the problem process or area along with
identifying the minor deviations that are there in each factory to suit their individual needs.
This also helps the group to understand how any process can be customized to suit needs and
increasing either comfort of operation or final output. This also introduces the group to frugal
innovations and its practices, that India masters.
Another technique of understanding the needs and persona of the user and the stakeholder is
noting the ‘personal inventory’ of them. It is a method of understanding the user and
stakeholders by recording what other products/items they use. For example, if the user’s
inventory records are a pair of RayBan shades, a DSLR camera, a tripod, a pair of extra macro
lens, a leather wallet, power bank, brass keychain, a deodorant, an aftershave lotion, etc.
The inference can be drawn that the user is a person that is extremely organized, uses branded
products, is passionate about photography, likes to drive, etc. It also gives a hint of the
purchasing power of the user and stakeholders and helps in product placement and bench
marking of the products (Image: Personal Inventory of an Artist
http://36.media.tumblr.com/04f88f01e46d2b0e06f5c1eef85808bb/tumblr_mpbwrzhlvK1qz9v0
to2_1280.jpg ).
STEP 1.3 Engage user by Interview technique
Interact and interview users through both scheduled and short “intercept” encounters. Prepare
the set of questions to be asked to the same industry workers/executives/stake holders for
thorough research. Some guidance is given in the link which describes different methods for
interviewing and observation from Stanford University (http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-
content/uploads/2013/10/METHODCARDS-v3-slim.pdf ) on how to formulate questions to get
the most relevant answers and how to verify/validate the same. Interviews are to be video-
graphed, hence necessary equipment to be carried along with the study as and when required.
Getting out of the building and actually talking to your users is probably uncomfortable but
potentially most effective way, if it is done in the right way. The thing here is not to directly go
up and ask your user for the solution because most of the time they really don’t know about
the solution and even about the problem. Engage them in conversations that allow users to tell
stories of their experiences and a likely solution.
Point 2: Notes on Secondary Research/Prior Art Search
STEP 2: Secondary Research/Prior Art Search:
(For increasing the innovation quotient of your IDP/UDP)
PAS: Prior Art Search activity: what it includes:
1. Web search/research publication
2. User feedback
3. Patent search (PSAR)
4. Vendor/market search

During this Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) generation activity, every student
within a team has to study at least 5 patents related either to his/her IDP/UDP or related to
his/her area of interest. Analysed data of each of these five patents is to be submitted
online at: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ , along with the project progress details, once the
university declares the due date for the same. The team needs to compile the findings of
each member during PSAR and make a report on:
1. What are the other solutions already existing and what are specific patent claims
solving particular need or adding value related to your project?
2. How does the team wish to improve existing patent claims by their own project?
3. What would be new value addition/distinct feature the team will add to ensure their
solution becomes unique and novel?
4. Which innovator/industry has already started working on improvements, the like of
which you have taken up as your Final Year project? This will let the team understand
the orientation of future research in academia. The academic R&D can be streamlined
by tapping such data where industry aspires to build product/process which is going to
come to market in future.
Prior Art/ Literature search is the step after gathering primary data from the domain/field
and to begin any project. Many of the students have been developing novel solutions, but
quite often they are not aware about the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Some of their
solutions are quite unique and might fulfill the criteria of patentability. Student teams need
to search related literature for selected problem product/process/system through patent
database, literature review, market search/user interaction. Every team can search the
relevant literature using various search databases (for web and patent search) by entering
the key words with combinations of Boolean characters and/or wild characters. As patents
are one of the most important aspects of Prior Art Search, some of the online free
databases are listed below for reference:
Search Databases Web link Scope of search
Google‘s Patent Search http://www.google.com/patents US patents only
USPTO http://patft.uspto.gov/ US Patents only
EPO http://ep.espacenet.com/?locale=en_EP
- EP Patents
- WIPO patents
- Worldwide patens
Patent Scope (WIPO) http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ WIPO Patents
Indian Patent Office http://ipindia.nic.in/patent/patents.htm
Indian Patents (Granted
as well as 18 month
Published Patents)
PAS helps one to understand what has been done/attempted before. This enables
innovators obtain ideas on which he/she should work further.

Point 3: Industrial Shodh Yatra – In Greater Detail
Final year project: Final Year projects are the capstone of engineering education. After
going through technical subjects during their studies, the young brains have the necessary
background and have learnt how to acquire technical knowledge for solving real life
challenges. The work on the Final Year project helps a student integrate the knowledge,
from various courses that he/she has studied, for solving a problem.
GTU wants the projects to be socially relevant and/or to be able to meet industry’s
requirements.
The users of an engineering product or process may be MSMEs, Large Scale Industries,
Informal Sectors, Expert Individuals or Institutions, NGOs etc. GTU requires that each team
of students should interact with the user of their choice and map the unarticulated needs of
respective users. The need may be for improving a product or a process. or it may be
required to develop a new product for satisfying the need. The team of students will
develop the improved or a new product/process as their Final Year project, with the
approval of the Faculty-Guide.
Industrial Shodh Yatra: Industrial Shodh Yatra (ISY) is the course of action that leads a team
of students towards a creative interaction with diverse users to discover a challenge/
problem, the solution of which would lead to a better product or a more efficient process
for a particular user or for a group of users or an industry. The suggested innovations may
be incremental or disruptive.
In this process of ISY the team members are required to follow design thinking approach
and define a problem statement through the process of observation, immersion and
engagement. During an ISY, a team of students, accompanied by their faculty guides, are
required to interact with one (or more) industry/user and adopt a systematic approach to
document the opportunity of improvement or of finding a new solution.
Generally an Industrial Shodh Yatra is organized by a College/Institution or by a Head of
Department (HOD)/by a Faculty Member. A team of students visit an industry and spend
some time to study the products and processes of the particular industry and to have
technical discussions with the personnel at the industry. The visit may conclude in discovery
of an appropriate problem for the Final Year project for the team of students. The concepts
of IDP/UDP and ISY were defined by GTU in 2010-2011.
Objectives of Industrial Shodh Yatra (ISY):
1. Forging linkages between Industry-Academia
2. Mapping real -life need of users/MSMEs/Industry/Others/Innovators
3. Codifying scouted challenges with the help of industry
4. Scouting innovations done by MSMEs and benchmark them with respect to global
solutions
5. Mapping the Gap & converting it into final year projects as a part of Academic
Research
6. MSMEs can leverage final year students as a skilled technical Human Resource for
technology development, while students will get learning opportunity. This is

particularly helpful to MSMEs since they may not be able to afford their own full-
fledged R&D facility.
7. Using design thinking approach for developing incremental innovations for existing
products or processes by doing innovations in form/feature/function and/or
material/method/application of product. This process is called Design Driven
Innovation (DDI).
Whether a student chooses to take up an IDP or an UDP, the Final Year project should use
the approach of Design Driven Innovation. This will make the work on the Final Year project
interesting and educative, leading to the graduation of an engineer, who may be able to
face the challenges of designing new products or processes successfully.
Steps in Industrial Shodh Yatra (ISY):
ISY involves two of the six steps (given in the figure on design thinking): ‘’OBSERVATION’’
and ‘’EMPATHY’’ only. The team of student should go through the steps of ‘’OBSERVATION’’
and ‘’EMPATHY’’ by a systematic process, even though an external user like a specific
industry may not be available in case of UDP. Student needs to define the exact parameters,
context and the situation that will lead to the solutions pertaining to a particular problem.
For this we need to define the user needs.
First students have to define all the parameters and then they need to take some specific
cases to understand these. The latent needs can be better understood only when we
interact with the user. This includes observation as well as detailed discussions with the
community of users.

The user needs and context can be understood through the following parameters defined in
terms of the needs and context: functional aspects, physical aspects, latent needs and
institutional aspects.
Empathize:
To Empathize the User, one needs to observe again and again. For better Empathy of User,
students need to follow the following steps of Observe, Immerse and Engage.
Point 4: Aeiou Framework for Observation Activity
STEP 1.1 Observation: With the help of AEIOU framework
Student teams will carry out the observation activity for their selected domain/industry with
the help of AEIOU Framework. AEIOU is an investigative tool to help a designer to interpret
observations gathered by ethnographic practices* in the field. It is an Observation tool. “Its
two primary functions are to code/gather data, and to develop building blocks of models by
analysis of data that will ultimately address the objectives and issues of a client/user.” The
groups of students are requested to divide the work amongst each other for AEIOU
framework.

For format of the AEIOU canvas, please refer canvases as mentioned under Design
Engineering - Canvas Activity.
References:
 Regarding AEIOU theory, please refer to:
http://gtu.ac.in/circulars/15Apr/04042015_AEIOU.pdf
 The AEIOU framework was originated in 1991 at Doblin by Rick Robinson, Ilya
Prokopoff, John Cain, and Julie Pokorny. Its aim was to help analyze
Ethnomethodology data andd Conversation analysis with MECE categories. You may
refer it from the following websites:
http://www.drawingideasbook.com/images/AEIOU_worksheets.pdf
http://www.doctordisruption.com/design/design-methods-8-aeiou/
 Ethnohub: http://help.ethnohub.com/guide/aeiou-framework, accessed on 16 May 2015
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography
Observation Technique:
1. What is user/person (or users/persons) doing?
-What is the user/person you’re observing doing in a particular situation? Note the
obvious as well as the surprising and random activities. Just report the objective facts.
2. How are they doing it? (Body Language, posture, style etc.)
-How is he doing it? Does it require effort? Does he appear rushed? Pained? Happy? Sad? Is
the activity impacting the user in either a positive or a negative way?
3. Why are they doing it in this way?
-Why is he doing what he’s doing, in the way he’s doing it? This step usually requires that
you make informed guesses regarding motivation and emotions. This step will reveal
assumptions that you should ask users about, and it will often uncover unexpected
realizations.
General Information:
• Information/Data are gathered via ethnographic methods: notes, photos, videos,
interviews, field observation, etc.
• During field observation, use the AEIOU framework as a lens to observe the
surrounding environment.
• Record observations under the appropriate headings.
• Supplement direct observations with photos or video tape when appropriate.
• Review and cluster observations to disseminate higher-level themes and patterns.
• A,E,I,O,U individual analysis can be done in A3 paper but the whole AEIOU summary
canvas to be A1 size canvas.

Point 5: Diachronic & Synchronic Analysis
STEP 3.1 Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis:
Diachronic analysis means the analysis of how a particular activity has been performed
since thousands/hundreds of years ago. This is better studied by plotting it along a timeline.
For example: How forging was done in renaissance era to how it changed during the
industrial revolution, how it is done in modern times and how it is being done with the help
of robotic arms. Identify the changes in process and tools and why those changes were
adopted. Refer the images of Diachronic Analysis for Mobile phone/Communication Device
in the given link: http://ig.computersciencedegreehub.com/evolution.jpg and
http://www.designinfographics.com/infographics-images/evolution-of-the-cell-phone-the-
worlds-gone-crazy.png
Synchronic analysis means the analysis of how a particular activity is being performed in
various other parallel industries. Activities similar in action like forging. Refer the images of
Synchronic Analysis for Mobile phone/Communication Device in the given link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4o8FlssBX7BNTFGUDBWVmdzQ00&authuser=0
In general, diachronic analysis relates to the way something changes (or doesn't) over time
and why. Synchronic relates to the way something is used at a certain point in time but in
different contexts (Students must observe the constants and the variables). The groups stay
in the college/institute and generate their prior art search data and primary diachronic and
synchronic analysis.
GTU believes that by thoroughly crafted policies, processes, incentives and real-time
mentoring and quality benchmarks, at least 1000 student projects can become useful
products every year. Some of these innovations can possibly become successful technology
start-ups or get transferred to MSMEs who in turn can use them for improving their
productivity and create value.

17. Contact Us
For any query/issue/problem, while communicating to GTU please share
you’re following details: Name, Enrolment Number, Team Id, Email Id and
Contact Number along with proper description of your problem.
For any further query you may contact us at:
QUERY RELATED TO CONTACT MAIL ID
IT (PMMS) related issues s4@gtu.edu.in
PSAR/PDE
IPR/Patent
ipr_projectofficer@gtu.edu.in
manish.rachchh@gtu.edu.in
Entrepreneurship & Design
Engineering canvas activity.
ap_karmjitsinh@gtu.edu.in
Note:
While every efforts has been made to ensure the correctness of the contents of this
guideline, any error(s)/deviation(s) noted may be brought to notice of Mr. Amitkumar Patel,
Assistant Professor (IPR/Patent), at "ipr_projectofficer@gtu.edu.in" for corrective measures.

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