tips about a college project

1. What is a project Report
in the college?
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2. Definition of a project work
• Project is one of the subjects or course work in last year of a college degree.
• The project is carried out in the pre-final semester and in the last semester .
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3. Purpose of doing a project
1. To create self confidence of a student
2. To learn how to decide a project topic
3. To decide the necessary steps in starting a project and completing it
4. To decide a project topic from the courses studied from the previous
semesters (or) To decide a project topic based on his or her field of
interest. The field of interest can be chosen from the internet
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4. Steps in solving a project
1. Understand the title of the project
2. Decide the end result required to complete the project
3. What is the type of data to be collected ?
4. From where or which place or what experimental setup or what internet database
the data has to be collected? (or)
5. How the data can be simulated ? What software has to be used for the simulation?
6. What analysis has to be done on the data and what result has to be generated to
conclude the project title?
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7. Any mathematical algorithm has to be used on the data to arrive a particular
result?
8. Should the result obtained be compared with a standard set of results?
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6. Preparation of report to submit to the
department where the student studies
1. Browse the internet on a similar project topic
2. Download summaries, articles , publications, abstracts that is relevant to the
project topic
3. Consolidate the information in a nutshell and present as the literature survey
the project report.
4. Include the bibliographies after the conclusion of the project report
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7. Chapters in the project report
• Chapter-1 Introduction
• Chapter-2 Literature survey
• Chapter-3 Design steps for the project implementation
• Chapter-4 Implementation of the projects
• Chapter-5 Results of the project
• Chapter-6 Conclusion
• References
• Appendix
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8. • Thank you
• Contact dr.s.purushothamann@gmail.com for further clarifications
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