Department of Electrical Engineering

General Guidelines for writing a M.Tech./B.Tech. Project Report

Your thesis must be organized as follows. 1. 2. Thesis cover (including the title, your name, Roll number, supervisor's name, department, SVEC emblem, institute's name.) Certificate from your supervisor(s) stating that the work is genuine and has not been submitted to any other degree [Number this page (i)] 3. The certificate must be signed by all your supervisors before you submit the thesis/report. Acknowledgements (Thank your supervisors, lab staff, and anyone else who has contributed to the thesis) [Number this page (ii)] 4. 5. This page must be signed by student/all the members of the B.Tech project group. The abstract must bring out the salient points about your work, highlighting your achievements. Abstract (1-page summary of your thesis work) (Number this page (iii)] Table of contents (including certificate, acknowledgements, abstract, list of figures, list of tables, chapters, references, and any appendices) Number these pages (iv), (v), etc If you are generating the table of contents manually, remember to include the page numbers with every item in the contents. Generate the table of contents at the very end of your thesis work, since page numbers often change due to last-minute additions/deletions. 6. 7. 8. List of figures (optional) (number this page (v), (vi), etc.) List of tables (optional) (number this page (vi), (vii), etc.) Chapters Typically, Chapter 1 is the Introduction, Chapter 2 is the literature survey, Chapter 3 is your work emphasizing your contribution (methodology), Chapter 4 is on Implementation, Chapter 5 is Results, Chapter 6 is Conclusions and Future Work. If you include figures in a chapter, number the figure as "C.F", where C is the chapter number and F is the sequence number of the figure within the chapter. Thus the second figure in Chapter 3 will be called Figure 3.2. Follow the same rule for tables as well. Give captions to all figures and tables. The figure captions must appear below the figures and table captions must appear above the tables. There must be a reference to each of your figures and tables in the thesis. For example, "Figure 3.1 shows the block diagram of .." Figures and tables must fit within the page boundary, without going out of margins. As far as possible, figures and tables must appear within the body of the chapter immediately after a reference is made to them. Organize your thesis into sections and subsections. Number the sections and subsections just like you number figures. For example, "2.2 A Review of NR Methode" While writing your report, remember the following. Clarity of presentation is very important. You need not write in flowery language. Remember that you are writing a technical report, not an essay.

Do not copy sentences from any other source. Even if you are citing a reference, use your own language to summarize. How will you feel if your classmate or junior were to copy from your report and claim it to be his/her own?

9. References

Give citations to acknowledge the fact that you have borrowed ideas from author(s).

Number all the references. All references must be complete. 1. 2. 3. For a book, give the name(s) of author(s), title of the book, publisher, edition, and year of publication. For a journal paper, give the name(s) of authors, title of the paper, name of the journal, month and year of publication, volume and issue numbers (optional), and page numbers. For a conference paper, give the name(s) of authors, title of the paper, name of the conference (expand any abbreviation), place where the conference was held, month and year of publication, and page numbers. 4. 5. For a thesis, give the name(s) of authors, nature of the thesis (B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D), Department's name, University's name, year of publication. For a web page on the Internet, give the author's name/company's name and the URL. Include the year as well.

Each reference in the thesis must be cited in the body of the thesis. For example, in Chapter 1, you may say, "Algorithms for NR Method is described in [2] and [3]."

10. Appendices. Number the appendices A, B, etc. Figures in appendices must be numbered as A.2, B.3, etc.

Other things to remember o o o o Use 1.5 line spacing and 12-point font, times new roman within the body of the thesis. Give 1.5" margin on the left hand side and 1" margin on the right hand side. Give 1" top and 1" bottom margins. Use 16-point font for chapter titles, 14-point font for section titles, and 12-point font for sections and 11-point font for subsections. o o Use single line spacing for references. Before taking the final printout, check and see if all section numbers, figure numbers, table numbers, and page numbers are OK. Check if all figures and tables have been referenced and if all references have been cited. o Be original when you write Acknowledgements. Do not, for heaven's sake, copy this from your friend's thesis or an old thesis! Your supervisors deserve the extra 10 minutes you may take to thank them in print. o Run a spell check before taking the final printout.

Submission o You must submit 4 copies of the report to the HOD/project coordinator before the specified deadline (1 copy to your supervisor, one copy to the department library, one copy to the main library and one for External Examiner). o You must include the corrections that may be pointed out to you during your presentation before generating the hard-bound copies of the thesis. o When you are submitting the hardbound copy, ensure that the cover page is in black for B.Tech thesis and the lettering is gold-embossed. o You are required to submit the electronic version of your thesis to the HOD in the form of DVD. The DVD should contain the following content. Mini project o Documentation Presentations(slides) Technical seminar report and PPts of all your batch mates. Documentation Simulation files & programs Presentations(slides) Reference papers

Technical seminar Main Project

Put labels on the DVD: write your names, M.Tech/B.Tech, title of the of the main project, year, and name of supervisor. Ensure that the DVD has no other content and, for God's sake, has no viruses.