*Specific schedule will be posted in the FYP website Meeting to discuss the process of the Project, TRIZ Beginning from Week 1 Student: Attend scheduled lecture classes Lecturers present their topics Week 4 Supervisors: Present topics and area of interest to students. Student: Select a topic of interest and look for the relevant lecturers for further discussion about the project Students to sign two copies of the Final Year Project Registration form to undertake the proposed project title under the supervision of the chosen supervisor. Both forms must also be signed by the supervisor. Students to submit the completed Final Year Project Registration forms to the supervisor (1 copy) and FGO (1 copy). Students approach and identify supervisors Week 4 to Week 6 Students perform the literature search, fact findings, and discussion with their supervisors about the project scopes, objectives and planning Week 4 to Week 13 Student: Students to meet with their supervisor on a regular/weekly basis to update their progress. FYP committee assigns supervisors Week 7 FGO: Consolidate all Project Registration forms. FYP Committee: Assign supervisor to students who have no projects. Submission of TWO(2) preliminary proposal report Week 12 Student: Students to submit a Preliminary Proposal report to the UCCD 2502 subject lecturer and the supervisor. Oral proposal presentation Week 14 Supervisor: Supervisor to arrange for the oral presentation time and venue with their respective students. Supervisor to evaluate their students oral presentation using the marking scheme provided
Supervisors submission of presentation marks Week 15 Supervisor: Supervisor to submit the oral presentation marks to the FGO Note: 1 Datelines for each milestone is shorten by half if the subject is conducted during the short (7 weeks) semester 2.2 Final Year Project I Schedule Milestones Dateline 2 *Specific & updated schedule will be posted in the FYP website Action Required (AR) by Supervisor/Moderator/Student Meeting to discuss the process of the Final Year Project Weekly Student: Weekly discussion with supervisor. Students to submit a weekly log to report the progress of the project work. Supervisors: Verify and sign on the weekly log and keep them for the record. Weekly Log Submit a draft report to supervisor Week 9 Student: Refer to the updated FYP schedule posted on the FYP web site for additional submission details. Submit TWO (2) Project Proposals to Supervisor personally. Show to your supervisor that all forms inside the reports have been signed and ticked. Refer to the updated FYP schedule posted on the FYP web site for additional submission details. Week 12 Student: Students to submit a Project Proposal Report. Students to ensure that report has been checked by Turnitin. Supervisor: Supervisors to evaluate the report according to the Project Proposal Marking Scheme. Create an account for students in Turnitin. Moderator: Moderator reads and gives feedback of the submitted report. Oral presentation / Prototype Demonstration Week 13, 14 Student: Student presents his/her Project Proposal. Supervisor:
The essential components of the content of the poster report should include the items listed as follow: Item No. Poster Presentation Content 1 Size A1 paper 2 Font Use contrasting fonts for the title, text and figure legends. (Ensure the font size used are large enough) 3 Required Elements You may use photos, figures, and table Determine a logical sequence for the material you will be presenting. Organize that material into sections, e.g., FYP2: Introduction, Methods (may use flowchart or block diagram), Results, Discussion, and Conclusions. FYP1: Introduction, Methods (may use flowchart or block diagram), Discussion, and Conclusions. Arrange the material into columns. 4 File Type Softcopy, save the softcopy in any of the following format: JPEG / TIFF / BMP / EPS. 5 See poster examples at FICT FYP web site, 5 Project Report Format 5.1 Report Format for Introduction to Inventive Problem Solving and Proposal Writing / Project I The report should be written using the third person and in the past tense. For example, do not use "I" and "you" in the report. Font – Times New Roman, 12 points, 1.5 line spacing applies to figure caption, table caption, chapter headings, subheadings, and citations. – Exceptions: Header, Footer, Footnote, Words in Figure/Table, font size should be within 10 to 11 points. – Colour: black. – Citing references in text: refer to the citation style “Harvard Style Referencing” in Appendix F. Language – British English
Citation within the Text and Reference List Examples Books & eBooks Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Book: Single Author (Holt 1997) or Holt (1997) wrote that... Holt, DH 1997, Management principles and practices, Prentice-Hall, Sydney. Book: 2 or 3 Authors (McCarthy, William & Pascale 1997) McCarthey, EJ, William, DP & Pascale, GQ 1997, Basic marketing, Irwin, Sydney. Book: More Than 3 Authors (Bond et al. 1996) Bond, WR, Smith, JT, Brown, KL & George, M 1996, Management of small firms, McGraw-Hill, Sydney. Book: No Author (A history of Greece 1994) A history of Greece 1994, Irwin, Sydney. Book: Editor (ed. Jones 1998) Jones, MD (ed.) 1998, Management in Australia, Academic Press, London. Book: 2 or More Editors (eds Bullinger & Warnecke 1985) Bullinger, HJ & Warnecke HJ (eds) 1985, Toward the factory of the future, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Book: Translator & Author (trans. Smith 2006) Colorado, JA 2006, Economic theory in the Mexican context: recent developments on the ground, trans. K Smith, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Book: Organisation as Author (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2001) Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2001, Aquaculture development in Australia: a review of key economic issues, ABARE, Canberra. Book: Chapter or Article in Edited Book A number of disturbing facts intrude' (Milkman 1998, p. 25) Milkman, R 1998, 'The new American workplace:high road or low road?' in Workplaces of the future, eds P Thompson & C Warhurst, Macmillan Press, London, pp. 22-34. Book, edition other than first. (Drafke, 2009) Drafke, M 2009, The human side of organizations, 10th edn, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J E-book (Aghion & Durlauf 2005) Aghion, P & Durlauf, S (eds.) 2005, Handbook of economic growth, Elsevier, Amsterdam. Available from: Elsevier books. [4 November 2004].
Blog (Newton 2007) Newton, A. 2007, Newcastle toolkit. 16 January 2007. Angela Newton: Blog. Available from: <https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/libajn/weblog/>. [23 February 2007]. Computer Software (OpenOffice.org 2005) OpenOffice.org, computer software 2005. Available from: <http://www.openoffice.org>. [11 January 2005]. Web Based Image / table / figure (The Lunar Interior 2000) The Lunar Interior, 2000. Available from: [28 November 2000]. Cases and Legislation Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Cases (R v Tang (2008) 237 CLR 1) R v Tang (2008) 237 CLR. Acts of Parliament (Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 3) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Delegated Legislation (Police Regulations 2003 (Vic) reg 6. Police Regulations 2003 (Vic) reg 6. Bills (Corporations Amendment Bill (No 1) 2005 (Cth) Corporations Amendment Bill (No 1) 2005 (Cth). Company Information Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Company Report (Aspect Huntley 2009) Aspect Huntley DatAnalysis 2009, National Australia Bank Limited Company Report. Available from: Aspect Huntley DatAnalysis. [20 May 2009]. Company Profile (Datamonitor 2009) Datamonitor 2009, Wesfarmers Limited Company Profile. Available from: Business Source Premier. [20 May 2009]. Financial Data (Datastream 2009) Datastream, 2009, S&PASX200 daily index data 2000-2009. Available from: Datastream. [20 May 2009]. Conference Papers & Proceedings Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example
Conference Proceeding Paper: Print (Riley 1992) Riley, D 1992, 'Industrial relations in Australian education', in Contemporary Australasian industrial relations: proceedings of the sixth AIRAANZ conference, ed. D. Blackmur, AIRAANZ, Sydney, pp. 124-140. Conference Proceeding Paper: Electronic (Fan, Gordon & Pathak 2000) Fan, W, Gordon, MD & Pathak, R 2000, 'Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge management', Proceedings of the international conference on information systems, pp. 20-34. Available from: ACM Portal: ACM Digital Library. [24 June 2004]. Conference Proceeding Paper: Unpublished (Brown & Caste 1990) Brown, S & Caste, V 2004, 'Integrated obstacle detection framework'. Paper presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IEEE, Detroit MI. Newspapers Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Newspaper: Print (Ionesco 2001) Ionesco, J 2001, 'Federal election: new Chip in politics', The Advertiser 23 October, p. 10. Newspaper: Electronic Database (Meryment 2006) Meryment, E 2006, 'Distaff winemakers raise a glass of their own to their own', The Australian, 7 October, p. 5. Available from: Factiva. [2 February 2007]. Newspaper: From a Website (Hilts 1999) Hilts, PJ 1999, 'In forcasting their emotions, most people flunk out', The New York Times 16 February. Available from <http://www.nytimes.com>. [19 February 2000]. Newspaper: No Author (The Sydney Morning Herald 7 January 2011, p. 12) Not required. Multimedia Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Video (Effective performance appraisals 1994) Effective performance appraisals 1994, (video recording), Melbourne, Educational Media Australia.
Television Programme (Crystal 1993) Crystal, L (executive producer) 1993, The MacNeil/Lehrer news hour (television broadcast) 11 October 1993, New York and Washington DC, Public Broadcasting Service. Audio Podcast (Van Nuys 2007) Van Nuys, D (producer) 2007, 'The anatomy of a lobotomist [Show 84]', Shrink Rap Radio(podcast). Available from: <http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/>. [11 April 2007]. Video Podcast (Kloft 2006) Kloft, M (producer/director) 2006, The Nuremberg trials (motion picture), in M.Sameuls (executive producer), American experience (podcast). Available from: [4 March 2006]. Music Track from an Album (Shocked 1992) Shocked, M 1992, 'Over the waterfall', on Arkansas Traveller (CD). New York, Polygram Music. Video Blog Post (Norton 2006) Norton, R 2006, 'How to train a cat to operate a light switch' (video file). Available from: [4 November 2006]. Standards & Patents Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example Patent (Cookson 1985) Cookson, AH 1985, Particle trap for compressed gas insulated transmission systems, US Patent 4554399. Standard: Retrieved From a Database (Standards Australia 2008) Standards Australia 2008, Personal floatation devices - General requirements. AS 4758.1-2008. Available from: Standards Australia Online. [1 December 2008]. Standard: Published (Standards Australia/New Zealand Standard 1994) Standards Australia 1994, Information processing - text and office systems - office document architecture (ODA) and interchange format: part 10: formal specifications,AS/NZS 3951.10:1994, Standards Australia, NSW. CMO Material Type Example of Citation within the Text Reference List Example
UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN FACULTY OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (KAMPAR CAMPUS) CHECKLIST FOR FYP1 THESIS SUBMISSION Student Id Student Name Supervisor Name TICK (√) DOCUMENT ITEMS Your report must include all the items below. Put a tick on the left column after you have checked your report with respect to the corresponding item. Title Page Signed form of the Declaration of Originality Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures (if applicable) List of Tables (if applicable) List of Symbols (if applicable) List of Abbreviations (if applicable) Chapters / Content Bibliography (or References) All references in bibliography are cited in the thesis, especially in the chapter of literature review Appendices (if applicable) Poster Signed Turnitin Report (Plagiarism Check Result – Form Number: FM-IAD-005) *Include this form (checklist) in the thesis (Bind together as the last page) I, the author, have checked and confirmed all the items listed in the table are included in my report. ______________________ (Signature of Student) Date: Supervisor verification. Report with incorrect format can get 5 mark (1 grade) reduction. ______________________ (Signature of Supervisor) Date: