MINI PROJECT IDEAS

The objective of this document is to present the general guidelines like how to do an industry oriented mini project and what are the minimum requirements of this mini project and how many marks does it carry, evaluation, write up of the report etc.

In general, we all are confused about the mini project on how to do and where to do, whether we have to do in an industry & what is the scope of the project. Through this post you may get some ideas about tha industry oriented mini project.

• We have a choice of doing a study project or a kit based and this could be done in an industry or in our institute or on your own mostly.
• Students must take permission to do the project from the resctive industry as well as from the Department HOD.
• Basically in this mini project student can take up any Industry oriented application in his/her field of interest in their respective field/branch.
• First one has to submit an abstract of the project to their concerned department head (HOD) and once he approves it ,he will assign a project guide to the individual or batch after this project work is to be started.
• Generally a batch contains minimum 1 and maximum of 5 members.
• We have to submit the project report as soon as IV/I starts and have to work on project in III/II break.This project will be evaluated during IV/II (Along with the Final or Main Project).
• Each and every individual of a batch should be able to explain the working principle and design of each stage of the developed system.
• Reviews will be conducted by our college in order to know the progress of the project work( 2 to 3 reviews will be taken generally).

Some of the points to be considered for the write up of a proper mini project report are:

• There is no page limit in the write up but the concept of the mini project should be completely covered.
• The format guidelines should be followed in writing a report.
• Project should have good industry oriented applications.
• It is essential to produce a clear and concise report that reflects the literature survey, problem identification, project aims and objectives, the engineering design work carried out, tests performed and discussion of results.
• The emphasis should not be on the length of the report, but rather on the way by which the above aspects are presented. In this context, one should avoid downloading bulk text and images from the Internet or use unconventional fonts or graphics.instead we should rather show the reader that you have understood the problem at hand and used an engineering approach to produce a solution by working as a team with your group members.

With the format given below, the mini-project report should normally not exceed 30 pages(excluding the appendix), and should not be shorter than 20 pages.

font and size:

• For Chapter Numbers and Titles: Times New Roman Size 18, Bold, centered , Upper-Case.
• Sections Numbers and Titles: Times New Roman Size 14, Bold, Left aligned.
• Sub-section Numbers and Titles: Times New Roman Size 12, Bold, Left aligned.
• For the main text: Times New Roman Size 12, Justified.

* Do NOT put the Chapter Number and Title on a separate Page.

*If there are less than four lines remaining at the bottom of the page, start the new section or subsection on the following page.

Paragraphs and Line Spacing :

1.5 throughout. Leave a blank space from one paragraph to another.

Margins :

Top, Bottom, Right: 25mm; Right: 30mm.

Headers/ Footers :

Times New Roman Size 10.

Equations :

Should be edited with Microsoft Equation, and should be numbered in ascending order in each chapter.

Page Numbers :

Start with Page 1 at the beginning of Chapter 1. Page numbers should be centered at the bottom of the page.

Figures and tables :

• Position Figures and Tables should be as close as possible to the text where they are referred.

• Figures and Tables should be numbered in ascending order for each chapter, using the same sequence as for Equations.

• The number of the figure, and its caption should be typed immediately below it in Times New Roman Size 12.

• The number of the table and its caption should be typed immediately above it in Times New Roman Size 12.

TITLE PAGE : The title page should include the following information:

• Mini-Project Title

• Student Names and ID Nos.

• A statement that the report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Practical Training of the B.Eng. (Hons) in mechanical engineering.

• Date of submission

TABLE OF CONTENTS : The table of contents should list all the chapters, sections and other parts of the report, along with their page numbers. In particular the following should be included:

NOTE: The above page numbers are given as examples only.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT : Any person, institution, organization, department or lab, whose help or support you want to acknowledge for the project.

ABSTRACT : A summary of 300 to 400 words of the practical application, the problem to be solved, the approach used and the main results obtained.

LIST OF FIGURES : A list of all Figure Numbers presented in the report, and their title (E.g. Figure 2.1 Temperature distribution along the solidifying slice) along with the page numbers.

LIST OF TABLES : A list of Table Numbers presented in the report and their title, along with the page numbers.

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