Learning is like picking shells on the beach,
It is hard but exciting. ~Einstein

• General Assessment Policy
  • Project Web Site - Presentation - Progress Report - Group Meeting

• Group Meeting Schedule
  • First Summer Group Meeting (6 Jun. 2002)
  • Second Summer Group Meeting (16 Aug. 2002)
  • Semester A Progress Meeting (Dec. 2002)

• Presentation
  • First Progress Presentation (3 sessions in Sept.2002)
  • Second Progress Presentation (13 Jan 2003) New

• Final Year Project Deliverables (department requirement)

• Work Schedule Table

• Downloads and Useful Links

General Assessment Policy

* important date

1. Project Web Site:
   • Students are required to set up their project web sites on the EDA center Web Server (http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk) for reporting the progress of project.
   • Students are not recommanded to spend too much time on desgining the graphics and the outlook of their project websites. Simple design and clear presentation of the project related materials are prefered. Here are two good examples: Site 1, Site 2, Kevin(2002)
   • URL addresses of the project websites have to be sumbitted to Dr. Po before 14 July 2002.
   • The first version of the web site should include the background, motivation, necessary theory, and the planning of the project, which should be available on the Web before 30 August 2002.
   • The second version is about the progress of the project in Semester A (e.g. implementations, results, and demo), which should be available before 1 Feb 2003.
   • The final version should be available on 22 May 2003. Final year project marks will be submitted to the department if the final version of the project website is not available before the deadline.

2. Progress Presentation:
   • A 30 to 45 minutes presentation on your progress, which is arranged in schedule. Students are required to update their project websites before the presentation. Here are some good resources about oral presentation.

3. Progress Report:
   • The Progress Report is submitted on Friday, Week 7 Sem A to both the supervisor and your assistant assessor.
   • It may be similar to your web site's materials (background , motivation and objective, theory, etc) but submit it in formal report format. Moreover, we expected this report should be the first few chapters of your FYP final report.
   • Recommend to use Latex in writing your report. Learn Latex here .

4. Progress group meetings:

• Progress group meetings for discussing major problems on the project development will be arranged about one or two weeks before the progress presentations.

Grading will be based on the results of the work (that is, "did it work?"), the degree of innovation, and the quality of the written report (included the project website) and oral presentation.

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Meeting Schedule

Progress Presentation

Students should attend at least one other group's presentation, but you are encouraged to attend all presentations. Each student will have 30 min. for presentation.

TBC - To Be Confirmed

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Final Year Project Deliverables

1. Final Report 

• You should follow the standard front title provided by EE department -
  Download a Word front page template (should be available in the mid of sem. B)
• We provided a report template to student for reference.
• Final Report has to be completed in before the end in the semester B. Details of submission will be noticed in our department website.
  

Suggested contents (not exclusive)
• a. One page abstract summarizing (1) the aims, scope and significance of the work, (2) techniques and tools used, (3) results and performance of the product (4) brief conclusions.
• b. Introduction giving the background, motivation of the project.
• c. Chapters describing necessary theory, implementations, and results of your work.
• d. Conclusions summarizing the output/product of the project, and achievement.
• e. References
• f. Appendix, e.g. Definations about standards, specification of your defined file format, H/W model no./specificaitons as well as S/W used in your project
• Don't include listings of source code. These are only suggested contents. They MAY NOT be suitable for all projects.

2. Demonstrations 

Grading will be based on the results of the work (that is, "did it work?"). A project demonstration to your assistant advisor should be done in the mid of semester B. And there is also a final demonstration to your supervisor at the end of your project.

3. CD-R

Contents of the CD-R
• a. project preparation/data collection about your project. (papers/transactions/standards files in pdf/ps format.)
• b. software files of your progress reports, final report (word, postscript or pdf files)
• c. project website (It should be relative by the local path, don't use absolute reference!)
• d. source codes of any programs / applications (Difference version shold be separate by different directories.)
• e. demonstrations / results (A new directory called "demo" is more suitable. It should only contain a new updated version of your project executable as well as all required files in the same directory. A file may be required for description of the demonstration procedures, required H/Ws, since there may be required a copying action on some DLLs' files into x:\win\system.)
• f. an index file describing the contents of the CDROM.
• (It should describe the contents of each directory. In addition to further development, the programming languages used in your project should also be identified, or recorded together if u have the corresponding liscensed s/w. Since there may be involved some 3-rd party win32 APIs or other OLE/COM/DLL written in other languages, you should also record these 3-rd parties or downlaoded plug-ins in order to make your program more stable and compatible instead of newer version in the future.)

4. Hardware Prototype of your project

The CD-R is record of your project result and will be assessed for your final grading. Thus, you should ensure the data is well organized and all your related documents, source codes/programs, simulation results should be retrievable from the virus-free CD-R! Otherwise, un-retrievable CD-R is assumed to be empty

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Work Schedule

The timetable for the major stages of the project is set out below.

The precise dates and times for the presentations will be notified to you by email.

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Useful Links and Helps

• EE FYP InfoNet: http://proj.ee.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/w3-msql/student/studentframe.html
• Paper Searching:
  • A scientific literature digital library - http://www.researchindex.com/
  • IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Online - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/

• Presentation Help:
  • Oral Presentation Advice - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/conference-talk.html
  • PowerPointers - Article : http://www.powerpointers.com/index.asp
    

• Latex Help:
  • Getting Started with LaTeX - very basic overview, with little example
    http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
  
  
  
  • Beginning LaTeX - Many Tex file example
    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Misc/LaTeX-Tutorial/LaTeX-Home.html
    
    
  • LaTeX: from quick and dirty to style and finesse -Write right for research
    http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/robertsa/LaTeX/ltxqstart.html
    
    
  • LaTeX Tutorial Contents
    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/jms/latex/tableofcontents2_1.html

  • For the student who're using windows platform :
    Recommend these 2 free tools which are enough for learning Latex and writing your report.
    MiKTex - Latex core engine http://www.miktex.org/
    WinTeX2000 - Tex file editor http://www.tex-tools.de/
    
    

Downloads

Learning Latex :

• Introduction to Latex 2e : download here (.pdf)

Report Templates (MS-Word) :

• Final Report Front Title Template : download here (please refer to InfoNet for final update)
• Dr Po's FYP report template : download here

Report Templates (Latex) :

• The report template in latex version will be uploaded soon.

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