ESOFT METRO CAMPUS
Project Proposal Template
General Guidelines
Length: It must be of 4 pages: excluding the title page and table of contents.
Paper: The Project Proposal should be printed on good quality A4 size paper
Lettering: Times New Roman.
Printing: A laser quality printing, single sided.
Spacing: Single line spacing
Margins: Left, 1-1/4 inches; top, bottom, and right, 1 inch.
Submission: Hard Copy and Softcopy (which should be emailed to topup@esoft.lk)
Project details
Title:
Student Name
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Registration No
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Supervisor
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Second Supervisor
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[leave blank]
Date Submitted
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Date Approved
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Introduction
This must give a brief description about the problem area, the problem that you address, the importance
of the problem, technology to solve the problem and the nature of the solution you propose.
Ideally 2 – 3 paragraphs
Background and Motivation
Describe the background of the problem domain and also why you think this problem is worth solving.
Try to support your reasoning with references. Explain why you are motivated to undertake this project
and what capabilities you have to undertake it.
Ideally 4 paragraphs
Problem in Brief
What is the specific problem that you hope to solve and why is it worth solving?
2 – 3 paragraphs max
Aim
Aim: Write a description such as ‘The aim of this project is to develop a system for addressing <problem>
with the use of <selected technology>’.
Objectives
Objectives: The following can be the most general objectives of any project, but you can define more
specific objectives to suit your project
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Critical review of the <problem domain>
Critical study of technologies that can solve the problem
Design and develop a system for solving the problem
Evaluation of the proposed system
Preparation of final documentation
Proposed Solution (Reword this title to match your proposed area)
Explain what you are going to do, what type of architecture you will use, maybe use some high level
diagrams to model your system and explain, etc.
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Resource Requirements
Hardware and software and other requirements that you will need to complete this project. Might also
want to consider about the associated cost.
Deliverables
What will the final results be? A system, documentation, training, etc.
Suggested Starting Point
What things / actions will you do first in order to start work on this?
Project Plan
Give this either as a table stating the stages and the approximate times, or as a Gantt Chart
References / Bibliography
Either used directly in the preparation of this proposal, or referred by you.
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