Modified Proposal Guidelines
Modified Proposal Guidelines
1. Motivation
The motivation should specify why this project is being made. It must be a logical inference
about the efforts you have made in selecting your project. It has to be fully-justified and
precise. The whole document has to be in the English language.
2. Overview
Specify the core idea behind the project. This should include:
2.1. Significance of the project
This section includes the importance of your work, the difficulty of the area, and the
impact it might have if it is successful.
2.2. Description of the project
A description of the project is clear, self contend and will be understood by the non-
specialist. This section should identify the problem you are trying to solve (you need to
be more technical here), the scope of your work (a generalized approach, specific
situations), and the limitations of your work.
2.3. Background of the project: OR Literature Review
It is also known as previous work or existing work. It includes a review of background
material that you found for the problem. It should contain full citations of articles,
books, web pages, etc.
How are you going to evaluate the results of your project? You should provide graphs,
simulation results, timing charts, hardware or software demonstrations, or use other
methods. What specific aspects of the project are you going to evaluate?
You can define your Methodology according to your project type. It’s not necessary to follow
these above mention points. You can also define it by yourself.
4. Features
Specify the features of your project which would make it significant for the evaluators. If you
are designing a project, which is in common use then you should specify those features which
are making your project distinctive/unique in comparison with the existing ones. Indicate the
utilization/benefits of your project. The more you specify the more useful be your project.
Features should be point-wise with some description and should be properly numbered.
5. Project Planning
You should provide a detailed schedule for the successful completion of the project. It should
also detail the responsibility of each student for group projects. You should use some
common schemes such as Gantt charts for this purpose.
6. References OR Bibliography:
List and number all bibliographical references at the end of your proposal in IEEE format.
When referenced in the text, enclose the citation number in square brackets, for example [1,
2], [2] [1]. Where appropriate, include the name(s) of editors of referenced books.
[1] A.B. Smith, C.D. Jones, and E.F. Roberts, “Article Title”, Journal, Publisher, Location, Date,
pp. 1-10.
[2] Jones, C.D., A.B. Smith, and E.F. Roberts, Book Title, Publisher, Location, Date
Pagination
Number consecutively in Arabic numerals.
Begin with 1 on the second page.
Place page numbers in the center bottom of the page.
Typing
Proposal typing can be either word or text processor.
The font type Times New Roman with font size 12 or bigger should be used throughout
the thesis.
The text must be printed on one side only.
The proposal must be double spaced throughout, except quotations, illustrations,
bibliographies, and appendices which may be single-spaced.