Final Year Project – Mid-Year Evaluation – Progress Report
FINAL YEAR PROJECT
MID-YEAR PROGRESS REPORT
This report, in the form of a template, has been specifically designed for B.E. students
working on their Final Year Project (FYP) at Mechanical Engineering Department,
NEDUET.
Every group of students is required to do the following:
1. Complete all the sections of this template
2. Get it certified by the assigned internal advisor before the day of mid-year evaluation
(MYE) presentations
3. Submit 01 photocopy to each of the following, on or before the day of MYE
presentations:
a. Internal advisor
b. Co-internal advisor (if any)
c. External advisors (if any)
d. Financial Sponsors (if any)
4. Submit original copy to FYP coordinator on the day of MYE presentations.
5. Email PDF/MS Word document to technical advisors, sponsors and FYP coordinator.
Note:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Use UK English
There should be NO grammatical or spelling mistakes
Submission after due date will not be accepted
For more information, contact your internal advisor and/or FYP coordinator
- Read the above carefully and attach this page at the end of your report before submission -
Template prepared by:
Template approved by:
Naveed ur Rehman (Assistant professor)
Dr. Mubashir Ali Siddiqui (Chairman)
In assistance with:
May, 2013
Dr. Muhammad Shakaib (FYP coordinator)
Syed Ahmad Raza (Lecturer)
Available for download at:
http://neduet.edu.pk/mech/fypguide/
The students and faculty members of Mechanical Engineering Department (NEDUET) have full access rights to read and
print this document without any prior notice to the Chairman and Final Year Projects’ Coordinator.
All rights are reserved.
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1. Project identification
1.1
Project title
1.2
Group members
(List names and seat numbers in
ascending order of seat number)
1.3
Technical
advisor(s)
(As officially assigned)
Group #:
1.
2.
3.
4.
MEMEMEME-
1.3.1 Internal advisor:
Name:
Designation:
1.3.2 Co-internal advisor (if any):
Name:
Designation:
1.3.3 External advisors (if any):
1. Name:
Designation:
Company/Institute:
2. Name:
Designation:
Company/Institute:
1.4
Approved
financial
sponsor(s)
(If there are any, mention only
companies/institutes names)
1.5
CERTIFICATE
“This is to certify that the final year project work until mid-year evaluation
held on ___________________, titled as stated in Sec. 1.1, executed by the
students’ group mentioned in Sec. 1.2, has been found satisfactory and every
section of this report is reflecting the same.”
(Signature of
internal advisor
& date)
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2. Project insights
2.1
Thematic
area(s)
Energy systems
Other (please specify):
Sub-areas (optional):
HVAC
Other (please specify):
2.2
Design
Mechatronics engineering
FEA
FEM
CFD
Scientific
Karachi
Sponsor
Keywords
(Max. 3 to 6. Don’t use
jargon or abbreviation)
2.3
Utilization
scope
Domestic
Commercial
Global
Pakistan
NED
MED
Other (please specify):
Industrial
Sindh
External
2.4
Major task(s)
Modeling
Mechanical design
Validation
Optimization
Physical tool(s) development
Technical feasibility
Comparison of alternative
Others (please specify):
Fabrication Testing
Consultancy document
Software development
Financial feasibility
Sellable product
(At least one should be
checked)
2.5
Software
packages,
tools and
programming
languages
(Software piracy is strictly
prohibited. Note that some
of these software are
available in MED)
MS Excel
VBA
C/C++/C#
MATLAB
Maple
Mathematica
AutoCAD
Pro-E
CATIA
ANSYS
Fluent
CFX
TRNSYS
HAP
WindFarmer
MiniTab
SPSS
SAS
VB
Java
PHP
Oracle
SAP
MySQL
Mobile phone development (please specify):
FORTRAN
EES
Adams
SPICE
RETScreen
R/S
ASP/.NET
SQL
Others (please specify):
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3. Relevant study material
3.1
Undergrad.
courses
(Must be from mechanical
engineering. Add more rows
if required.)
Course code and title
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
3.2
Books and
other printed
material
(Must be easily accessible.
Add more rows if required.)
Reference #
(if any)
Title, edition, publishing year and
authors’ names
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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3.3
Undergrad.
final year
projects
(Available in projects’ library
at MED, if any. Add more
rows if required.)
Reference #
Project title
1.
2.
3.
4.
3.4
Standards
and
databases
Name, purpose, source and other details
1.
(Must be easily accessible.
Add more rows if required.)
2.
3.
4.
3.5
Online / web
resources
(Must be easily accessible.
Search engines, social blogs,
and unauthentic resources
should not be mentioned. Any
reliable URL shortening
service may be used. Add
more rows if required.)
URL of specific web page
1.
2.
3.
4.
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4. Objective / Scope
Write the objective/scope that has been understood from project title and meetings with technical advisor(s) so far. Title and
scope of project must be elaborated in detail. Maximum 500 words.
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5. Expected outputs
List expected outputs of the project in discrete terms. Maximum 250 words.
6. Utilization
Describe target beneficiaries, target market, potential customers, etc. Maximum 250 words.
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7. Literature study / Data collection
Describe the topics and type of literature studied or collected for study, so as to define the project path and methodology.
Citations are recommended. Maximum 500 words.
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8. Methodology
Concisely list down the principle milestones and associated deliverables that must be achieved in order to accomplish the project objectives. Add more rows if required.
S.No.
List of project milestones
Deliverable(s)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Expected
months to
complete
Percent
Completed
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9. Executed work
Describe in details the works along with the obtained results and deliverables that have been completed until now and how.
Note that very general information about topics is NOT required so try to be specific. The sequence, as already described in
Methodology (Sec. 8), should be followed as possible. Maximum 3 pages including equations, figures and tables etc.
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10. Remaining work
Describe in details the plans to execute remaining works. The sequence, as already described in Methodology (Sec. 8),
should be followed as possible. Maximum 500 words.
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11. References
Style “IEEE - Reference Order” should be followed for giving references of books, research papers, reviews, online
resources, databases, software manuals, figures and anything else cited in this report.
12. Gantt chart
A detailed and neat Gantt chart should be attached separately after this page. Attached page
may be landscape but it should not have any page number, header and footer. Gantt chart
should be listing all the major and minor activities, indicating executed and remaining tasks,
along with the time spans. Make sure that the Gantt chart is reflecting all the project
milestones as described in Sec 8-10.
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Evaluation by Technical Advisor(s) and Sponsor(s)
Please  if work is satisfactory or  if work is not satisfactory and therefore requires a revision.
Section
Internal
advisor
Co-internal
advisor
External
advisor-1
External
advisor-2
Sponsor(s)
1. Project identification
2. Project insights
3. Relevant study
material
4. Objective/Scope
5. Expected outputs
6. Utilization
7. Literature study/Data
collection
8. Methodology
9. Executed work
10. Remaining work
11. References
12. Gantt chart
Overall performance
Signature and date
Technical advisors and approved sponsors may attach separate page(s) for comments and suggestions or
email at cmed@neduet.edu.pk. For more information: http://neduet.edu.pk/mech/
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