Day 12- Final Year Project Discussion

Today's discussion was about Final Year Project. Our lecturer Mr. Eranjan started the lecture by giving a brief introduction for final year project. Final year project is an individual project which has nine months of time period and it is a combination of three modules. Student has to come up with  a topic to the project based on a problem that a company face and student need to come up with the solution for the problem. Since we are BIT students we need to come up with a business related topic. Lecturer further exaplined more about what need to consider when come up with a topic to the project. Students cannot come up with hypothetical problem and it is must to find a real day problem that a company face. After that student has to  implement a system to solve the problem. The documentation of this project should include the solution of the  problem, analysis, research, literature review and critical evaluation. This Final Year Project will be affected on our final grading. After that he discussed about the steps to the final year project.

Final Year Project (Blogspot, 2012)

1. Draft Proposal- First we need to come up with a proposal which explains the problem and the solution
2. Specification Form- This includes what are the specifications need to complete the project
3. Project Plan- How the project is going to plan (Schedules) /steps going to follow

Project Should be cover following main points

• Feasible- Technical, Economical, Schedule (need to consider all three types of feasibility studies) and whether solution can solve the problem?
• Useful- Whether the facts, found are useful or not?
• Balanced- mix of qualitative and quantitative material

After that he gave some ideas that will helpful to come up with a topic to the FYP

• Can focuses on areas you like such as HR, Management, Supply chain, event planning etc.
• Can focus on a module you like most
• What ares you want to take a job?
• Use existing skills but extend them.

When come up with a topic following problems can arise we need to think about those as well. Problems as followed,

• Data availability
• Time and opportunity to pursue the research
• Sufficient skill/knowledge needed or the time to acquire them
• Sufficient finance
• Sufficient body of knowledge (enough papers)

Then he discussed about the steps to create a project proposal

1. Identify the area of study and the importance of the subject
2. Specify the objectives of the project
3. Describe your intended methodology and any underlying assumptions.
4. Explain the value of possible outcomes
5. Identify a preliminary time table for the project

After that he wrapped up the class and he asked all of us to go to library and refer some earlier students FYP and get an idea how to do it.

Learning Outcomes:-

I found today lecture as a very important and effective lecture because it was about FYP. FYP is very important to final result of my degree. Also this lecture was very useful because it discussed about the areas we need to do focus when we come up with a topic to the final year project what need to include in the document, how can we over come from the problems that we might face etc. 

References:-

Blogspot. (2012). Final Year Project. [Online]. Available at: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprv02X0aYd9ixGnNI0osGkSgmRylSWyElKhKnvBfcA2ONYzSgmgi-Y6Lfc8AoL1aiduP5j1_l4Hh02yILLvs_bXXOwCE9bUgGQuaI12vrpT9rmPxn8vht3ipcQKUDkp05JgPu_S86Sj4/s1600/final.gif

 [Accessed 6th August 2012]