GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL (GIC)

VIII. Final Project Report

Project Report (a spiral bound hard copy) - It is required to be a report of the work, done by
the team of students during the academic semester/year. The Report is to be submitted
whether the project has been completed successfully or the work is going to be carried out
by next semester/year students.

Basic format and requirements:

Paper must be White Royal Executive Bond, 85 gsm Paper of A4 size only.
One side Laser Printing: Entire Report either Black or Colour
(Title & Certificate must be in Colour)
Line Spacing: 1.5
Printing Margin: 1.25 inch Left Margin
1.0 inch all Side Margin (Top + Bottom + Right)
Font: Times New Roman only
Font size: (Text should start from next line after Title)
MAIN TITLE: 18 BOLD UNDERLINE (Alignment: Left) (Title Case)
SUB TITLE: 14 BOLD UNDERLINE (Alignment: Left) (Title Case)
MATTER: 12 Normal (Alignment: Justify) (Title Case)

· Figures must be with outside border & in centre of whole margin. All details in the
Figures must be clearly readable.
· Write figure number at the bottom of figure, E.g.” Fig. 5(a)”, followed by title of
figure in title case.
· Throughout text figure must be cited as “Fig.5 (a)”.
· Write table number at the top of table, E.g. “Table 1” : followed by title of table in
title case
· All paragraphs must start without ‘tab’.
· Unified line spacing between paragraphs.
· Start new chapter from new page.
· No blank area at the end of each page except last page of chapter.
· All equations in the middle of line with equation no. at the end of line within small
brackets, E.g.(2).
· No dots between equation and equation no. space before and after equation sign.
· Chapter heading must be identical for each new chapter as shown below.

Guidelines for Final Year Project Report: The Project report should have following
components:

Title of the Project, IDP/UDP project, Name and Id. No. of the Students who
First Page have worked for the project, Academic year, Name of Industry – if it is an IDP
Project, Name(s) of Industry and Faculty Guide(s).

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Next Pages Index

· Acknowledgements
· Certificates from college (Suggested Format)
· If you have done an IDP, and if the industry finds the solution useful
kindly attach certificate of proof of your claim and attach along with
the report. Ask the industry to precisely mention what benefit they got
Next Pages from your solution implementation in the company letterhead.
· Certificate generated from project site for Completion of all activities at
PMMS portal of GTU.
· Certificate obtained from the Plagiarism checking software.
Undertaking About Originality Of Work (Kindly refer Annexure 2 on
Page No. 4 of the attached link document)

Title : Introduction

1.1 Problem Summary (What exact problem are you trying to solve?) and
Introduction,
1.2 Aim and objectives of the project
1.3 Problem Specifications
Chapter 1
1.4 Brief literature review and Prior Art Search (PAS) about the project. [It
should include Web search/research publication, User feedback,
Vendor/market search, Patent Search (Do not attach the whole PSAR
report, mention just one page gist/summary)].
1.5 Plan of their work
1.6 Materials / Tools required.

Design: Analysis, Design Methodology and Implementation Strategy.

Explain your work including Observation Matrix, Ideation canvas, and

Product development canvas in the context of your project. For better
understanding about these canvases, you may refer:
Chapter 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbMDZiN1VsQ05Edmc/view?usp=sha
ring or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DgcqHvqySbNVF3d3RCMFM1Szg/view?usp=sha
ring (Explain every step in the above canvases with your own narration
based on your understanding and inferences. Also attach the
photocopy/image of your canvases in A4 equivalent size).

Implementation:
Chapter 3 Should covering actual implementation, Results, Reports, Snapshots, Testing
and Verification.

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· Summary of the results. Advantages of your work/results/methodologies.

Usefulness with respect to existing solutions. Scope of future work.
Chapter 4
· Benchmarking your project with existing product/services or solutions.
Mention the Unique Features of your Innovation/Project (IDP/UDP).

In the alphabetic ascending order

References
Citations to be provided throughout the Report.

Apart from above listed items, project report will also include below information (as
an appendix to project report), submitted/generated via project management site:
http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ . These have to be represented to external examiner as
well.]
· Copy of four Periodic Progress Reports (PPR) as submitted by each student,
along with guide comment on it.– For both semesters.
· Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) as submitted by each student, along
with guide comment on it.– For semester 7 ONLY
· Design Engineering canvases: AEIOU Summary, Empathy Summary, Ideation,
Appendix Product Development and its report generated in line with the existing project.–
For semester 7 ONLY
· Business Model Canvas (BMC) and its report generated in line with the existing
project. – For semester 8 ONLY
· Draft provisional patent filling forms generated during Patent Drafting Exercise
(PDE). – For semester 8 ONLY
· Copy of paper published on the basis of this Project / Patent filed (if applicable).
(Kindly attach any paper you have published based upon the work related to
your project in any national/international conferences.) -– For both Semesters

NOTE:

· This is a sample format, any college may amend this format based on the need, but it
has to ensure that all above listed items must to be included in project report.
· The project report copy which is to be uploaded on project site, need to include above
items.
The project reports have to be submitted to departmental HODs of student’s College/
Institution in spiral bound or hard copy before the practical/Viva-Voce examination. In
absence of the project guide in any unavoidable circumstances HOD/suitable
authority/other faculty members can sign on the certificates.
Further the complete project report needs to be uploaded in soft copy to the GTU web
portal specially designed for this purpose: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ (Every team needs to
ensure completion of all tasks at project portal)

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NOTE:

· No student/college has to submit any hard bound project copy/CD to GTU, as GTU will
receive the data from student’s profile in PMMS portal. Every College may preserve
project data of all students/teams in a soft copy on a CD rom for further record.
· Students who are working on projects related to VISHWAKARMA YOJANA, have to
work as per instructions from their guide to cover all project activities.
Students need to submit two copies of their project report in spiral bound as follows:
1. Student Copy
2. Guide/Department/College Copy

Role of Internal guide/HOD/Principal:

· Make students aware about the objective of this activity.
· Internal guide must has to verify the uploaded project report file related to
individual teams activity/project. Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/
comments related to project report. The same tasks can also be performed from
HOD/Principal’s account.
· Based on the inputs from internal guide/HOD/Principal student team has to take
necessary action.
· External guide and External mentor can also comment on this activity.

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