ECE FYP BRIEFING SEMESTER 1, 2014/2015

1. 11th September 2014 ECE FYP BRIEFING SEMESTER 1, 2014/2015 AUDITORIUM B KULLIYYAH of ENGINEERING

2. AGENDA • FYP, what is it all about? • Regulations • Assessment • Submission of reports • Presentation

3. The Coordinators FYP 1 Coordinators FYP 2 Coordinators • COMM: Dr. Rosminazuin • CIE: Dr. Nor Farahidah • CIE: Prof. Aisha • COMM: Dr. SurizaZabidi rosmi@iium.edu.my E1-3-18.3 aisha@iium.edu.my E1-3-18.1 suriza@iium.edu.my E1-2-1-031 adah510@iium.edu.my E2-3-13.12

4. What is it all about? • Credit hours: 3. So, you are expected to work on your FYP at least 6 hours/week. • Development of research culture/attitude among students

5. Where is the FYP Proposals? • The FYP proposals can be downloaded at: • It is a PDF file with a password. The password is: http://staff.iium.edu.my/adah510 • PASSWORD: FYPS11415

6. Can I Submit My Own Proposals? • By default, it is discouraged but possible. • You need to find potential supervisor and discuss your proposals. • Please follow the proposal template that can be downloaded from the website

7. When to submit the registration form? • Start: Monday, 15 September 2014 • Note: you need to talk with the supervisor first, confirm, and obtain the passwordto register from your supervisor. • End: Thursday, 18 September 2014 • How to submit? • Online at http://staff.iium.edu.my/adah510/ • You, your supervisor, and FYP coordinators will receive confirmation email. Please keep this email as a prove of registration.

10. Once you have review the titles and have an agreement with the supervisor, he/she will give you the password and you will be able to fill in the registration form

11. Can I Register? • You can use either Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail email account • Based on the list of titles, you must discuss and get approval/consent from your ‘future’ supervisor • Reminder: • If you have committed to one project, please notify your other choice of supervisors if you want to change to other project • Do not register twice or more. Please have the approval from your supervisor first.

12. Regulation • Final Year Project • must be carried out by the student as a partial fulfillment for the award of degree in Engineering • EAC (Engineering Accreditation Council) required that FYP should be conducted individually.

13. Regulation – FYP 1 • The student should finalized selection of components, and get their purchase order signed from the head of department prior to buy any components. Each title will be allocated a budget of maximum RM500 • Each student should purchase a log book to record his/her meetings with the supervisor. This log book can be purchased from the office of Student Affairs. • Before the event of Project I presentation, • the project coordinator will check the frequency of attendance /meeting with supervisor (from the log book) to decide whether the student is eligible to proceed with his/her presentation. • An attendance of at least 80% is required to proceed with the presentation.

14. Regulation – FYP 2 • By the end of Project II, the student should prepare his/her poster for poster presentation where the Industrial Advisors will assign their grade out of the 15% assigned for excellent projects. • If the Industrial Advisor is unavailable to attend the Poster Day event, the senior staff of the respective department will then perform an ad-hoc committee to judge and decide on the marks to be given to the students out of the allocated 15%. • Approval for publishing the project or complete prototype in working conditions is required for competition purposes.

15. Assessment Scheme • FYP1: • Supervisor (Report): 30% • Examiner (Report): 35% • Examiner (Presentation): 30% • Timeliness : 5% • FYP2: • Supervisor (Report): 25% • Examiner (Report): 30% • Examiner (Presentation): 25% • Poster: 15% • Timeliness: 5%

16. Log Book and Online Progress Report • You must own a log book to keep track of your progress • Online progress report (with logbook on the specific dates) MUST BE SUBMITTED at the following dates: • Monday, 29 September 2014 • Monday, 20 October 2014 (+logbook submission) • Monday, 10 November 2014 • Monday, 1 December 2014 • Monday, 22 December 2014 (+logbook submission)

17. Online Progress Report • FYP1 and FYP2 progress report: http://staff.iium.edu.my/adah510/ • Your progress report will be forwarded to your supervisor and respective FYP coordinator • The reports are individual reports

19. Online Progress Report

20. Consequences for Delinquency • Barring from presentation • Failure to fulfill 10 consultation throughout the semester (andbased on online progress report) • Will lose evaluation marks by examiners

21. Extension • Extension is not applicable for FYP1 • The result will be either Pass (A-C) or Fail • Extension for FYP2 is considered only for genuine cases/reasons (not encouraged to do the extension) • Unavailability of equipment/facilities • Maximum 2 months (automatically fail if more than 2 months) and maximum grade is B.

22. Submission of Report for Presentation • FYP1 • Three copies (coil bind) must be submitted per student • Softcopy, please send • TO: final.project.one@gmail.com • Subject: [Sem 1 2014/2015] Matric - Title of the FYP • FYP2 • Three copies of report must be submitted (coil bind) PLUS one CD per student • Softcopy, please send • TO: final.project.two@gmail.com • Subject: [Sem1 2014/2015] Matric - Title of the FYP

23. Submission of Report • Do not wait to write your report in the last week (even last day) of submission. It will not work and it will produce unacceptable (and mostly plagiarized) report. • The details on how to submit to Turnitin will be discussed in the FYP second briefing.

24. Where to Submit Reports? • At the Department Office (please print in small paper, your supervisor name and your examiners name)

25. Presentation • FYP1 • 10 minutes each student • 5 minutes Q & A • FYP2 • 15 minutes each student • 5 minutes Q & A

26. FYP Briefing 2 The second FYP Briefing will be on the 2nd October 2014

27. ADAB and ETHICS ISSUES withTURNITIN