VED 750 Minor Project

Final Evaluation

July 24, 2016

The final evaluation of projects under VED750 Minor Project would be conducted as follows:

1. The final report as per instructions in Annexure A should be prepared, and submitted after correction by the project supervisor, with the signature of the supervisor, on or before November 18, 2016.

2. Each student is expected to take appointment with their respective examiner on any day prior to the presentation: November 25/26, 2016, as per schedule (to be announced), meet the examiner as per this appointment, explain the project and details of work done. Remember: this phase constitutes the more important part of your evaluation, compared to the presentation.

3. On the date of presentation, as per the schedule (to be announced), you are expected to make a 20 minutes' presentation. Guidelines for presentation are given below. There will be a 10-minutes' discussion after the presentation with the committee in the presence of the supervisor(s) and examiner(s).

4. Distribution of marks of evaluation would follow the policy outlined in the document in Annexure B.

5. In case of any clashes, please contact the undersigned by e-mail sufficiently in advance.

Good Luck.

M.R. Ravi

Course Coordinator

Annexure A

Guidelines for preparing written reports

The format of the report should be as follows:

1. Title Page: containing title of the project, ”Final Report of VED750 Minor Project submitted by”, name of students with entry numbers, “under the guidance of”, name of supervisor(s), IIT Delhi Logo and “National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering, IIT, Delhi, <Month name> <Year>” in the usual report cover page format submitted by B.Tech final project reports.

2. Abstract, upto about 500 words.

3. Acknowledgements

4. Table of contents

5. Chapter 1: Introduction: Upto about 3-4 pages: containing Motivation and background of problem and problem definition, objectives, and chapterwise layout of this report.

6. Chapter 2: Review of literature / Study of background material / Prior work on same or similar topic, concluding with detailed scope of present work in view of the literature.

7. Chapter 3 onwards: The body content of the present report. Please divide the work into logical chapters containing different elements of the work done.

8. Last chapter: Conclusions and scope for further work. In this, please make sure to bring out the value dimension of the work presented in the report.

9. References: in the standard format internationally accepted: either numbered in the order in which they appeared in the text, or in alphabetical order of the surname of the first author (cited in text as Author(year)).

10. Appendices if any.

The report should be submitted after the supervisor(s) have read them and with the signature of the supervisor(s). Two copies of the report must be softbound with no plastic cover and submitted by 5 p.m. on the day specified by the Centre/Institute for this purpose: 2.5.16: One copy of the report must be submitted to their concerned ‘Project Examiner’ and the other copy must be submitted to the Course Coordinator.

Guidelines for presentation:

Each student would make a presentation for 20 minutes followed by a 10-minutes question-answer session. Accordingly, presentations should be short and crisp, with not more than 12-15 slides (not cluttered with information). Please refrain from dwelling for too long on background or literature: focus of the presentation must be YOUR work in the project.

1. Please be on time at the venue of presentation (NRCVEE committee room, V-401): preferably, 10 minutes before your time.

2. Stick to the time limit: rehearse your presentation in advance. Delay in one presentation means delay in all following presentations. So, time limits would have to be strictly adhered to.

Annexure B

VED 750 – Minor Project

Evaluation and weightage criteria

Assessment by Supervisor

Assessment by Examiner

Assessment by Evaluation Committee

Final weightage for grading (both in Mid-term and Final Evaluations)

Final Computation for grading