ECE FYP BRIEFING SEMESTER 1, 2014/2015 AUDITORIUM B KULLIYYAH of ENGINEERING 11 th September 2014

AGENDA  FYP, what is it all about?  Regulations  Assessment  Submission of reports  Presentation

The Coordinators  COMM: Dr. Rosminazuin  CIE: Dr. Nor Farahidah  CIE: Prof. Aisha  COMM: Dr. Suriza Zabidi FYP 1 Coordinators FYP 2 Coordinators E E E E

What is it all about? 3 6 hours/week  Credit hours: 3. So, you are expected to work on your FYP at least 6 hours/week.  Development of research culture/attitude among students

Where is the FYP Proposals?  The FYP proposals can be downloaded at:  It is a PDF file with a password. The password is: PASSWORD: FYPS11415

Can I Submit My Own Proposals?  By default, it is discouraged but possible.  You need to find potential supervisor and discuss your proposals.  Please follow the proposal template that can be downloaded from the website

When to submit the registration form?  Start: Monday, 15 September 2014 password  Note: you need to talk with the supervisor first, confirm, and obtain the password to register from your supervisor.  End: Thursday, 18 September 2014  How to submit?  Online at  You, your supervisor, and FYP coordinators will receive confirmation . Please keep this as a prove of registration.

Once you have review the titles and have an agreement with the supervisor, he/she will give you the password and you will be able to fill in the registration form

Can I Register?  You can use either Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail account  Based on the list of titles, you must discuss and get approval/consent from your ‘future’ supervisor  Reminder:  If you have committed to one project, please notify your other choice of supervisors if you want to change to other project  Do not register twice or more. Please have the approval from your supervisor first.

Regulation  Final Year Project  must be carried out by the student as a partial fulfillment for the award of degree in Engineering  EAC (Engineering Accreditation Council) required that FYP should be conducted individually.

Regulation – FYP 1 RM500  The student should finalized selection of components, and get their purchase order signed from the head of department prior to buy any components. Each title will be allocated a budget of maximum RM500 This log book can be purchased from the office of Student Affairs  Each student should purchase a log book to record his/her meetings with the supervisor. This log book can be purchased from the office of Student Affairs.  Before the event of Project I presentation,  the project coordinator will check the frequency of attendance /meeting with supervisor (from the log book) to decide whether the student is eligible to proceed with his/her presentation.  An attendance of at least 80% is required to proceed with the presentation.

Regulation – FYP 2  By the end of Project II, the student should prepare his/her poster for poster presentation where the Industrial Advisors will assign their grade out of the 15% assigned for excellent projects.  If the Industrial Advisor is unavailable to attend the Poster Day event, the senior staff of the respective department will then perform an ad-hoc committee to judge and decide on the marks to be given to the students out of the allocated 15%.  Approval for publishing the project or complete prototype in working conditions is required for competition purposes.

Assessment Scheme  FYP1:  Supervisor (Report): 30%  Examiner (Report): 35%  Examiner (Presentation): 30%  Timeliness : 5%  FYP2:  Supervisor (Report): 25%  Examiner (Report): 30%  Examiner (Presentation): 25%  Poster: 15%  Timeliness: 5%

Log Book and Online Progress Report  You must own a log book to keep track of your progress  Online progress report MUST BE SUBMITTED  Online progress report (with logbook on the specific dates) MUST BE SUBMITTED at the following dates: 1. Monday, 29 September Monday, 20 October 2014 (+logbook submission) 3. Monday, 10 November Monday, 1 December Monday, 22 December 2014 (+logbook submission)

Online Progress Report  FYP1 and FYP2 progress report:  Your progress report will be forwarded to your supervisor and respective FYP coordinator individual reports  The reports are individual reports

Online Progress Report

Consequences for Delinquency  Barring from presentation andbased on online progress report  Failure to fulfill 10 consultation throughout the semester (and based on online progress report)  Will lose evaluation marks by examiners

Extension  Extension is not applicable for FYP1 Fail  The result will be either Pass (A-C) or Fail not encouraged  Extension for FYP2 is considered only for genuine cases/reasons (not encouraged to do the extension)  Unavailability of equipment/facilities  Maximum 2 months (automatically fail if more than 2 months) and maximum grade is B.

Submission of Report for Presentation  FYP1  Three copies (coil bind) must be submitted per student  Softcopy, please send TO: Subject: [Sem /2015] Matric - Title of the FYP  FYP2  Three copies of report must be submitted (coil bind) PLUS one CD per student Softcopy, please send TO: Subject: [Sem /2015] Matric - Title of the FYP

Submission of Report not work  Do not wait to write your report in the last week (even last day) of submission. It will not work and it will produce unacceptable (and mostly plagiarized) report.  The details on how to submit to Turnitin will be discussed in the FYP second briefing.

Where to Submit Reports?  At the Department Office (please print in small paper, your supervisor name and your examiners name)

Presentation  FYP1  10 minutes each student  5 minutes Q & A  FYP2  15 minutes each student  5 minutes Q & A

FYP Briefing 2 The second FYP Briefing will be on the 2 nd October 2014

ADAB and ETHICS ISSUES with TURNITIN