PERUNTHALAIVAR KAMARAJAR

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (PKIET)

NEDUNGADU – KARAIKAL – 609 603

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

A MANUAL FOR PREPARATION OF PROJECT THESIS

CONTENTS

1. GENERAL

2. NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED

3. SIZE OF PROJECT REPORT

4. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS OF PROJECT REPORT

5. PAGE DIMENSIONS AND MARGIN

6. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

7. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS

8. NUMBERING INSTRUCTIONS

9. BINDING SPECIFICATIONS

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 A MANUAL FOR PREPARATION OF PROJECT THESIS

1. GENERAL :
The manual is intended to provide broad guidelines to the B.Tech candidates in
the preparation of the project report. In general, the project report shall report, in
an organised and scholarly fashion an account of original research work of the
candidate leading to the discovery of new facts or techniques or correlation of
facts already known (analytical, experiments, hardware oriented etc.)

2. NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED :

B.Tech: Students should submit FOUR copies to the Head of the Department
concerned on or before the specified date ----------------. The Head of the
Department should send (i) One copy to the respected guide (ii) One copy to the
Department library (iii) One copy the Examiners and (iv) One copy to each
student in the group concerned.

3. SIZE OF THE PROJECT REPORT:

The size of project report minimum number of pages should be greater than 100
pages, maximum should not exceed 125 pages of typed matter counted from the
first page of Chapter 1 to the last page.

4. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS OF PROJECT REPORT :

The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and bound
should be as follows:

1. Front page
2. Bonafide Certificate
3. Acknowledgement
4. Abstract
5. Table of Contents
6. List of Figures
7. List of Tables
8. List of Symbols, Abbreviations or Nomenclature (Optional)
9. Chapters
10. References
11. Appendix

The Tables and Figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places.

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5. PAGE DIMENSIONS AND MARGIN :
The dimensions of the final bound copies of the project report should be Standard
A4 size (297mm x 210mm) paper may be used for preparing the copies.

The final five copies of the project report (at the time of submission) should have
the following page margins :

Top edge : 30 to 35 mm (1.2 inches to 1.3 inches)

Bottom edge : 25 to 30 mm (1 inches to 1.2 inches)
Left side : 35 to 40 mm (1.4 inches to 1.6)
Right side : 20 to 25 mm (.8 inches to 1 inches)
Tables and figures should conform to the margin specifications. Large size figures
should be reduced to the appropriate size before insertion.

6. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION :
The candidates shall supply a typed copy of the manuscript to the guide for the
purpose of approval. In the preparation of the manuscript, care should be taken to
ensure that all textual matter is typed to the extent possible in the same format as
may be required for the final project report.

6.1 Front page – A specimen copy of the Front page for B.Tech project
report.

6.2 Bonafide Certificate – Bonafide Certificate should be in given format

6.3. Acknowledgement – It should be brief and should not exceed one page.
Should be in given format

6.4. Abstract – Abstract should be an essay type of narrative not exceeding

600 words, outlining the problem, the methodology used for tackling it
and a summary of the findings.
Keywords - It should closely reflect the topic and should optimally
characterize the project. Use about six key words or phrases in
alphabetical order, separated by commas

6.5. Table of contents – The table of contents should list all material
following it as well as any material which precedes it. The bonafide
Certificate, acknowledgement and abstract will not find a place among the
items listed in the table of contents but the page numbers of which are in
lower case Roman letters. One and a half spacing should be adopted for
typing the matter under this head.

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6.6. List of Figures – The list should use exactly the same captions as they
appear below the figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be
adopted for typing the matter under this head.

 Figure heading (central aligned & bottom of the figure)

• Figure 1.1: Name of the figure
• Figure should be central aligned
• Bold, Font size 12
• Not more than 2 figures per page

6.7. List of Tables – The list should use exactly the same captions as they
appear above the tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be
adopted for typing the matter under this head.
 Table heading ((central aligned & top of the table)
• Table 1.1: Name of the table
• Table should be central aligned
• Bold, Font size 12
• Not more than 2 Tables per page

6.8. List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomanclature – One and a half

spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. Standard
symbols, abbreviations etc. should be used. List of abbreviation and list of
symbols in alphabetical order (a to z)

6.9. Chapters – The chapters may be broadly divided into 6 parts

Chapter 1 - Literature Review

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Base Paper Identification
A Minimum of 5 papers should be downloaded related to the base paper.
A complete survey of all these papers should be done
A report on this survey should be prepared.
(A minimum of 2 to 3 pages has to be documented for each paper which
highlights the Problem, methodology used, implementation and results)
}

Chapter 2 – Introduction

2.1. Problem Definition

2.2. Scope Of The Project

2.3. Development Process

2.3.1. Existing System
2.3.2. Disadvantage Of Existing System
2.3.3. Proposed System

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 2.3.4. Advantage Of Proposed System
2.4. Feasibility Study
2.5. Road Map

Chapter 3 – System Diagrams

Chapter 4- System Design and Implementation

Chapter 5 – System Testing

Chapter 6 - Conclusion and Future Enhancements

References

Appendix –
Sample coding
Screen shots

The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may
be further divided into several divisions and sub-division.
 Heading and Chapter should be in capital,bold,14(font size)
 Subheading should be in capital, bold,12(font size)
 Sub subheading should be in Titlecase, bold, 12(font size)
 Sub sub subheading should not be there instead just mention the
heading without the number. (eg, 2.1.1 (correct), 2.1.1.1 (should
not be there)
 Indent spacing should be 1 tab at beginning of the para
 Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.
 Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate
vicinity of the reference where they are cited.

6.10. Appendices – Appendices are provided to give supplementary

information, which if included in the main text may serve as a distraction
and cloud the central theme under discussion.

 Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g.

Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.
 Appendices, Tables and References appearing in appendices
should be numbered and referred to at appropriate places just as in the
case of chapters.

6.11. List of References – Any work of other researcher is used either directly
or indirectly the origin of the material thus referred to at appropriate places
in the project report should be indicated. A paper, a monograph or a book

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 may be designated by the name of the first author followed by the year of
publication, placed inside brackets at the appropriate places in the project
report should be indicated. A paper, a monograph or a book may be
designated by the name of the first author followed by the year of
publication, placed inside brackets at the appropriate place of reference.
The citation may assume any one of the following forms.

 Base paper must be the Present in reference section

 Total number of references should be above 25.
 IEEE references format should be followed
− The reference numbers in document should be mentioned
serially. (in the first page the reference should not be [11], [21],
it should be [1],[2],[3]

The listed should be typed 4 space below the heading

“REFERENCES” in alphabetical order in single spacing left-justified. The
reference material should be listed in the alphabetical order of the first
author. The name of the author/authors should be immediately followed
by the year and other details. A typical illustrative list given below relates
to the citation examples quoted above.

REFERENCES
1. Ariponnammal S. and Natarajan S. (1994) ‘Transport Phonomena
of Sm Se 1-x Asx’ Pramana – Journal of Physics Vol. 42 No.5
pp.421-425
2. Barnard R.W. and Kellogg C. (1980) ‘Applications of Convolution
operators to Problems in univalent function theory. Michigan
Mach. J., Vol 27, pp 81-94

3. Jankins G.M. and Walts D.G. (1968), Spectral Analysis and its
Applications’ Holder Day, Sanfrancisco.

4. Shin K.G. and Mckay N.D. (1984) ‘Open loop minimum time
control of mechanical manupulations and its applications’, Proc.
Amer. Contr. Conf., San Diego, CA, pp. 1231-1236.

6.12. Tables and Figures – By the word Table, is meant tabulated data in the
body of the project report as well as in the appendices. All other material
used in the body of the project report and appendices such as charts,
graphs and diagrams may be designated as figures.

 Two or more small tables or figures may be grouped if necessary

in a single page.

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 7. TYPING INSTRUCTIONS
General
This section includes additional information for final typing of the project
report. Some information given earlier under ‘Manuscript preparation’
shall also be referred.

The impressions on the typed copies should be black in colour.

Uniformity in the font of letters in the same project report shall be

observed.

A sub-heading at the bottom of a page must have atleast two full lines
below it or else it should be carried over to the next page.

The last word of any page should not be split using a hyphen.

One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text.
Single spacing should be used for typing:

(i) Long Tables

(ii) Long quotations
(iii) Foot notes
(iv) Multiline captions
(v) References

All quotations exceeding one line should be typed in an indented space –

the indentation being 15mm from either margins.

7.2. Chapters
The format for typing chapter headings, divisions headings and sub
division headings are explained through the following illustrative
examples.

Chapter heading : CHAPTER 1

Division heading INTRODUCTION

Division heading : 1.1 PROBLEM DEFINITION

Sub-division heading : 1.1.2. Literature review.

The word CHAPTER without punctuation should be centered 50mm down

from the top of the page. Two spaces below, the title of the chapter should

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 be typed centrally in capital letters. The text should commence 4 spaces
below this title, the first letter of the text starting 20mm, inside from the
left hand margin.

The division and sub-division captions along with their numberings should
be left-justified. The typed material directly below division or sub-division
heading should commence 2 spaces below it and should be offset 20mm
from the left hand margin. Within a division or sub-division, paragraphs
are permitted. Even paragraph should commence 3 spaces below the last
line of the preceding paragraph, the first letter in the paragraph being
offset from the left hand margin by 20mm.

8. NUMBERING INSTRUCTIONS
8.1. Page Numbering
All pages numbers (whether it be in Roman or Arabic numbers) should be
typed without punctuation on the bottom center corner. The preliminary
pages of the project report (such as Acknowledgement, Abstract, and
Table of Contents etc.) should be numbered in lower case Roman
numerals. Pages of main text, starting with Chapter 1 should be
consecutively numbered using Arabic numerals.

8.2 Numbering of Chapters, Divisions and Sub-Divisions

The numbering of chapters, divisions and sub-divisions should be done,
using Arabic numerals only and further decimal notation should be used
for numbering the divisions and sub-divisions within a chapter. For
example, sub-division 4 under division 3 belonging to chapter 2 should be
numbered as 2.3.4. The caption for the sub-division should immediately
follow the number assigned to it.

8.2. Numbering of Tables and Figures

Tables and Figures appearing anywhere in the project report should bear
appropriate numbers. The rule for assigning such numbers is illustrated
through an example. Thus if as figure in Chapter 3, happens to be the
fourth then assign 3.4 to that figure. If a table to be continued into the next
page this may be done, but no line should be drawn underneath an
unfinished table. The top line of the table continued into the next page
should, for example read Table 2.1 (continued) placed centrally and
underlined.

8.3. Numbering of Equations

Equations appearing in each Chapter should be numbered serially, the
numbering commencing a fresh for each Chapter. Thus for example, an
equation appearing in Chapter 2, if it happens to be the eighth equation in
that Chapter should be numbered (2.8) thus:

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 C(s) G1 G2
----- = ----------------- (2.8)
R(s) 1 + G1 G2 H

While referring to this equation in the body of the project report it should
be referred to as Equation (2.8).

9. BINDING SPECIFICATIONS
Project report submitted for M.Tech. should be bound using flexible cover
of thick white art paper. The spine for the bound volume should be of
BLUE CALICO of 20mm width. The cover should be printed in black
letters and the text for printing should be identical to what has been
prescribed for the title page.