EE4001: Final Year Project

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EE4001 Final Year Project Students info
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EE 4001 Objectives

• To guide students to learn skills, such as
  questioning, forming hypotheses and gathering
  evidence.
• Students to learn how to apply skills acquired in
  the classroom to solving real life problems.
• To develop pleasure of problem solving and
  creative thinking
• To develop skills for independent and lifelong
  learning.

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EE 4001 Methodology

• The projects have a varied mix of research,
  design and development components.
• Academic staff advise students and continuously
  monitor their progress.
• The students will keep a logbook of activities
  during their project.

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EE 4001 Expected Outcomes

• The students should be able to
• carry out preparatory work such as literature
  search/review of past work/software/hardware etc.
  (Process)
• evaluate material of direct relevance to the
  investigation. (Process Outcome)
• Focus on main issues/formulate the problem/
  identify areas of major contribution in the
  project. (Process Outcome)

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Outcomes

• validate the problem statement and solution
  through analytical studies/software design and
  simulation/designing and building
  instrumentation/experimentation. (Process
  Outcome)
• Assessment will be made on the following
  criteria
• Planning time-schedule, milestones, usage of
  existing resources, and consumable requirement.
• Execution Execution in parts as directed by the
  milestones, integration of all the parts to
  provide the solution to the formulated problem.
• Outcomes

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Outcomes

• write a dissertation and a technical paper
• present and defend the thesis

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University Expectations

• 12 MCs, 6/Semesters for EE 4001, expectation 6 x
  2.5 15 hrs/week during semester.
• Plan your work load by adding all MCs in a
  semester.
• Allocate 15 hrs/week to your FYP

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Action Research

• Plan Process
• Do Effort and initiative
• Observe Effort and initiative outcome
• Reflect assessment of work
• And the learning cycle continues.

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Key To Success

• Plan, Time management and DO
• Regular Work habits (15 Hrs/week)
• Regular meetings (Demand time from advisors)
• Choose short term and long term goals
• Be aware and dynamic to needs and your goals

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7 Habits of Highly successful FYPdue apologies
to Stephen R Covey

• Habit 1 Be Proactive
• Habit 2 Begin with the end in Mind
• Habit 3 Put First Things First
• Habit 4 Think Win/Win
• Habit 5 Seek First to Understand, then to be
  understood
• Habit 6 Synergize Sum is greater than parts
• Habit 7 Sharpen the Saw

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Continuous Assessment

• To inculcate disciplined work habits.
• To avoid accumulation of work at end of year.
• To notice symptoms of potential problems at an
  early stage and take corrective action.
• To assess students on execution, good practices
  and on achievements.

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Criterion based continuous assessment

• Evaluation criteria matches the outcomes
• Assessment is summative - adds to the final
  grade, and formative feedback on learning to
  the student
• Continuous assessment 4 assessments in 2
  semesters

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Evaluation Criteria

• carry out preparatory work such as literature
  search/review of past work/software/hardware etc.
• evaluate material of direct relevance to the
  investigation..

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Evaluation Criteria

• iii. formulate the problem/focus on main
  issues/identify areas of major contribution in
  the project.
• iv. validate the problem statement and solution
  through analytical studies/software design and
  simulation/designing and building new
  instrumentation/experimentation. Assessment will
  be made on the following criteria
• a) Planning time-schedule, milestones, usage of
  existing resources, and consumable requirement.
• b) Execution Execution in parts as directed by
  the milestones, integration of all the parts to
  provide the solution to the formulated problem.
• c) Outcomes

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Evaluation Criteria

• write a dissertation and a technical paper
• present and defend the thesis

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Timing of Assessments

• CA1 How much - 10
• When completed by 6th week of semester I
• Who does it Advisor/s
• What is assessed? Student effort achievement for
  criteria i, ii, iii

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CA2

• When week 12 of semester I to 2 weeks after end
  of examination of semester I
• How Much - 30
• Who does it? Advisor/s and Examiner
• What is assessed? Student effort initiative,
  achievement for criteria iii, iv

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CA3

• When week 11 13 of semester II
• How much- 30
• Who Advisor/s
• What? - Student effort, initiative and
  achievement for criteria iii, iv

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CA4

• When week 13 of semester II 30
• Who EXAMINERS ONLY ! (Advisor may sit through
  presentation)
• What Thesis, Oral Presentation, Tech. paper,
  achievement for criteria iii, iv (Submit Draft
  Thesis by end of week 11, Sem II)

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Timeline Achievements
Draft Thesis end of week 11
CA1 weeks 5 6 Sem I
CA2 week 12 2 weeks after exam Sem I
CA3 week 11 -13 Sem II
CA4 week 13 Sem II