BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI
INSTRUCTION DIVISION
SECOND SEMESTER 2012-2013
Course Handout (Part II)
Date: 03.02.2013
In addition to Part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives
further specific details regarding the course.
Course No
: BITS C331/BITS C335
Course Title
: Computer Projects
Instructor-in-charge
: ANAND KUMAR
Projects Portal
: http://www.bits-dubai.ac.ae/INTRANET/
1.
Scope and Objective of the course:
It aims at developing the skills for operating, maintaining and developing software in innovative areas
and R & D activities of the Institute. As a part of education, this project course follows a method of
learning and, therefore, the student's actual day-to-day task involvement would constitute the central
thread of the learning process. The evaluation will recognize this aspect by demanding day-to-day
productivity and punctuality of the student.
2.
Course Plan:
The plan of work for each student will be decided by the respective Instructors. Each student should
adhere to the plan of work decided for and should regularly monitor the progress of the project
accordingly.
3.
Evaluation Scheme:
Sl.
No.
Components
Evaluator(s)
Weightage %
Due Date
1.
Project Title and Plan of work
Supervisor
5
17.02.2013
2.
Written Report I
Supervisor
5
28.02.2013
3.
Seminar I / Viva I
Supervisor
10
28.02.2013
4.
Written Report II (Mid-sem
Examiner(s)
15
28.03.2013
Report)*
Evaluation II
5.
Seminar II / Viva II
Examiner(s)
10
28.03.2013
6.
Final Report**
Examiner(s)
25
06.06.2013
7.
Weekly interactions
Examiner(s)
10
06.06.2013
8.
Final Seminar and Viva
Examiner(s)
20
06.06.2013
*
**
Evaluation I
Final
Evaluation
It is recommended that Mid-semester Report is submitted to turnitin for an initial check – this is meant
for enabling student and faculty to proactively identify problems with no penalty being attached.
Student should make the first submission of the Final Report to turnitin by 23/05/2013.
This is to avoid delays due to turnitin limitation of generating reports for resubmissions.
4.
Mid-semester grading:
Mid-semester grading will be done on the basis of the components Evaluation 1 and Evaluation 2
components of the evaluation scheme.
5.
Grading Procedure:
In addition to what is mentioned in Part I of handout, the grading will be done mainly on the basis of the
progress made towards attainment of the project objectives and will recognize that each Instructor has
given specific task situation in which the student participates in a cognitive manner. Thus, each
Instructor will recommend a grade for his student for the consideration of the Instructor-in-charge. In a
specialized course of this nature the respective Instructor's assessment of the student vis-à-vis the
objective of the project would be the central criterion for arriving at final grade. Tools like Turnitin will be
used to ensure originality of report.
6.
Notices: All notices pertaining to this course will be put up in the Projects Portal.
7.
General
It is the student’s responsibility to ensure:
Continuous interaction with the Instructor.
Work to the satisfaction of the instructor.
Submitting/uploading plan of work, written presentations, final report etc. to the instructors.
Adherence to plan of work.
Evaluation(s) to be completed by the due date and evaluation marks are uploaded/communicated
to the Instructor-in-Charge by due date.
8.
Project Reports submissions
1. Only a soft copy of the midsemester report is to be uploaded by the faculty supervisor to the
Projects Portal.
2. A soft copy of the final report (in MS Word) is to be uploaded to the Projects Portal by faculty
supervisor with the Summary Pages and Digital Receipt of the turnitin report included at the
end of the report.
3. A hard copy of the final report is to be submitted to the faculty supervisor with the Summary
Pages and Digital Receipt of the turnitin report included at the end of the report.
4. The complete soft copy of turnitin report (in PDF) is only to be submitted to the supervisor.
5. The complete soft copy of turnitin originality report should be preserved as is in turnitin portal:
should not be overwritten by reports of other courses or other students.
The electronic form of the report should exactly match the hard copy. The final report should have the same
title as submitted by you along with the approved plan of work.
Instructor-in-Charge
(BITS C331/BITS C335)