AURORAS ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHONGIR

GUIDELINES FOR CONDUCT OF B TECH FINAL YEAR PROJECTS 2013-14

1. Procedure for Formation of Project Batches:
a. Project batches should not contain more than two students.
b. Department-wise merit list containing top 33%, middle 33% and bottom 34% of the
students in the department to be prepared and intimated to the students by 11
th
Nov
2013.
c. Each student from the top 33% should be allowed to select one student frommiddle 33%
and bottom 34% as project batch members.
d. Formation of batches to be completed by 20
th
Nov 2013.

2. Procedure for Allocation of Projects and Project Guides to Students:
a. Allocation of projects to be done based on the merit list by conducting counselling
sessions on or before 30
th
Nov 2013.
b. During the counselling session, top 33% students along with their batch members to be
called in the order of merit and to be made to select the project from the list of projects
given in the PDD.
c. The students should select a project that is not already allotted to a previous batch in the
order of merit.
d. The project guide for the students should be the faculty member, who has proposed the
project.

3. Procedure for Formation of Project Evaluation Committee (PEC)
a. The committee to be formed with the following members:
i. Head of the Department
ii. Project coordinator
iii. Two senior faculty members of the department
iv. One additional senior faculty member from other department if warranted
v. Internal and external guides

4. Procedure for Submission and Evaluation of Project Abstracts:
a. Project abstractsin the prescribed format attested by the project guide to be submitted by
all the project batches by 7
th
Dec 2013 to the project coordinator.
b. The project coordinator should conduct a PEC (Project Evaluation Committee) to assess
the quality of abstracts.
c. Quality assessment of abstracts and rejection or acceptance to be declared by 9
th
Dec
2013.
d. Students whose abstracts are selected should start the project work from 10
th
Dec 2013.
e. Students whose abstracts are rejected should resubmit their abstract with corrections
suggested by the faculty by 13
th
Dec 2013.
f. If the abstracts are rejected after resubmission, students are not allowed to do the project
for this academic year.

5. Students are not to be allowed to take up any projects outside the college.

6. Students are allowed to do only experimental projects and no study projects are allowed.

7. Students having more than 15 backlogs are not to be made eligible for doing project work.

8. Procedure for Conducting Domain Knowledge and Platform Knowledge Test:
a. Students to be tested in domain area after literature survey phase and platform area after
design and analysis phase during project work.
b. The project guides should prepare a descriptive question paper containing 5 questions in
the domain area of the project each carrying two marks for each project they are guiding.
c. Similarly, 5 questions to be prepared in the platform area of the project.
d. Common question paper for two different projects may be prepared if the domain and
platform areas of both the projects are same.
e. Each test to be conducted and evaluated for 10 marks.
f. Students to be allowed to proceed to the next phase only if they secure qualifying score
(at least 60%) in each test.
g. Project guides should intimate the syllabus for the domain knowledge and platform
knowledge tests to their students well in advance.

9. Procedure for Conducting Project Written Examination:
a. A project written examination to be conducted at the end of the semester for all the
students who successfully complete the all the phases of the project.
b. The examination should contain 30 multiple choice/fill-in-the-blank questions prepared by
project guides for each project they are guiding.
c. The questions to be given from domain and platform areas of the project and may include
questions on design, analysis, and testing phases of the project.
d. The examination should be conducted and evaluated for 30 marks.
10. All the student presentations of projects and viva voce examinations will be video shot and copy
of it will be given to the candidates in the form of a CD.

11. Procedure for Project Seminar Presentations:
a. All the project seminar presentations must be made by the students by preparing a
PowerPoint presentation over a LCD projector.
b. Before the presentation the students should get the approval for proceeding with the
seminar from the project guide.
c. All the students in the project batch must be present and participate in the seminar.
d. Seminar presentations to be evaluated by PEC for 15 marks.




















AURORAS ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHONGIR
PROJECT SCHEDULE FOR B TECH FINAL YEAR 2013-14


S No Activity Duration Deadline
1 Display of Project Schedules 11
th
Nov 2013
2 Preparation and Display of Merit Lists 11
th
Nov 2013
3 Preparation and Display of PDDs 15
th
Nov 2013
4 Formation of Project Batches 20
th
Nov 2013
5 Allocation of Projects 30
th
Nov 2013
6 Abstract Submission 7
th
Dec 2013
7 Quality Assessment of Abstracts 9
th
Dec 2013
8 Commencement of Project Work 11
th
Dec 2013
9 Literature Survey 3 Weeks 30
th
Dec 2013
10 Domain Knowledge Test (10 Marks) 1 Day 31
st
Dec 2013
11 Project Seminar I (15 Marks) 1 Day
12 Design and Analysis Phase 4 Weeks 30
th
Jan 2014
13 Platform Knowledge Test (10 Marks) 1 Day 31
st
Jan 2014
14 Project Seminar II (15 Marks) 1 Day
15 Implementation Phase 3 Weeks 21
st
Feb 2014
16 Result Analysis 2 Weeks 4
th
Mar 2014
17
End Semester Project Examination
a. Submission of Manuscript Copy of the Project 1 Week 11
th
Mar 2014
b. Review of Project Manuscripts and Intimation of
Corrections
2 Weeks 25
th
Mar 2014
c. Project Report Submission (40 Marks) 1 Week 2
nd
April 2014
d. Project written examination (30 MCQ/FIB) (30 Marks) 1 Day 2
nd
April 2014
e. Presentation of project work (video shoot) (40 Marks) 1 Day
5
th
- 17
th
April
2014
f. Viva Voce Examination (video shoot) (40 Marks) 1 Day
5
th
- 17
th
April
2014