Student Project Management - Sharing of Experiences

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Student Project Management - Sharing of
Experiences

• Dr Sumam David S.
• Professor Head, Dept of EC
• NITK Surathkal
• sumam_at_ieee.org

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Objective

• Share our experience in effective management of
  student projects and to learn successful
  practices from others
• Improve the quality of BTech student projects

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BTech Project - Outcomes

• Well-trained students
• More specifically students must have acquired
• System integration skills
• Documentation skills
• Project management skills
• Problem solving skills
• Unique opportunity to solve real-life problems
• Professionalism

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Common Features

• Duration final 1 or 2 semesters
• Credits eqvt of 2 3 theory courses
• Team work 2 or 3 students
• Carried out in institution

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Challenges

• Student Motivation
• Faculty Motivation
• Resources
• Industry projects
• Effective management is a burning issue in most
  institutions

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Project Phases

• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Documentation
• Presentation

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Planning

• VI Semester
• Project Coordinator
• Faculty centric
• Project outline
• Objectives, Wish specifications, Timelines,
  functional partitioning, prerequisites, Key
  references
• Joint projects with industry
• Allocation of projects
• Resources for the projects

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Implementation

• Course Evaluation Plan
• Lab allotment
• Work diary
• Meeting with faculty
• Major events
• Study phase June - September
• Design phase October - February
• Engineering phase March - May

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Evaluation

• Continuous evaluation
• 2 presentations demos to evaluation panel in
  each semester
• Evaln 1 25
• Evaln 2 25
• Guide 50
• Relative Grading

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Documentation

• Project brief
• Preliminary Report - I evaluation
• Design Report I - II evaluation
• Design Report II- III evaluation
• Final report - IV evaluation
• Online submission using CMT - Moodle
• Guidelines for reports

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Presentation

• 10 minutes per team
• 10 minutes for demo
• 10 minutes for Feedback, QA

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Some projects

• Joint projects with industry
• BTech projects 2006-07
• BTech projects 2007-08

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Acknowledgements

• Outcome of Electronics Education Network project
  funded by SDC
• Jointly developed by Dept of EC of PSGTech,
  COET, OU, NITK and CEDT

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References

• Project Management Document, EENP, 2000
• EC449/EC499 Course plan 2007-08, NITK

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Thank you