General Guidelines for Thesis Presentations

By Engr. Arslan Ahmed Amin

Read all guidelines carefully and slowly so that you may not skip any point...All
points carry weight. You must show responsible behavior and must not ignore
any of my instruction.
The organization of presentation should be as follows:
1. Tile Page
2. Contents
3. Introduction
4. (Details of Technical techniques_ Separate headings may be made if
appear logical)
5. Problem Statement
6. Objectives
7. Literature Review
8. Methodology
9. Block Diagram
10.Flowchart
11.Results and Discussions
12.Work Breakdown Structure
13.Conclusions
14.Future References
15.References (Major ones)

Other Guidelines:

1. Make at least two bullets for points. Single bullet appears weird. Or adjust
accordingly. Pls check this in all slides.
2. Revise Title Page.
3. Use fonts Garamond (Headings) for heading, Gill Sans (Body) for body
text.
4. Use white background in slides or simple decent one not so much colorful or
unprofessional.
5. Use standard FAST logo as shown above in the sample title page.
6. Learn to make changes via Slide Master to avoid unnecessary efforts on
every slide. You just need to make changes in one slide in the slide master
and it will appear in all slides.
7. Slide numbers should not appear on title page. You may start numbers from
contents slide.
8. Must add some visual related to the project in the first introduction slide.
9. Centre align visuals. You must adjust left or right if these give proper looks.
10.Logo should be present on every slide.
11.Fill empty spaces with visuals if appear good otherwise leave space.
12.Presentation must be clear and you must know it firmly.
13.Revise all Mathematics related to project and include in presentation only if
necessary.
14.Don’t Write long sentences. Use 6 x 7 rule.
15.Use emf format for pics. Pictures must be of high quality.
16.Heading font size must be ≥36 and text must be ≥24. Text and background
must be in good contrast.
17.Slide Numbers should be mentioned at right bottom.
18.Headings, logos and body text should appear at sample place while
switching slides.
19.Practice loud at least 5 times before defense.
20.Remove any grammar or spelling error. These give very bad impression
especially if in the names.
21.Make tables instead of using snapshots. Also check indentation of entries.
22.Add 8 to 10 references in IEEE style.
23.Left align all headings.
24.Anticipate all possible questions especially What, How, Why and prepare
answers beforehand.
25.Use same name for the revised files and put revisions 0,1,2 etc…

26.Must mention all abbreviations when appear first time with first capital
letter.

27.Don’t miss articles “a” “the” etc.

28. Use similar and uniform fonts throughout the slides. Pls don’t make it Zoo.
29. The headings and text location should not change while shifting slides.
30.Check arrow sizes in flowcharts to be proportional to the block sizes. Also
color of text fonts should not change much.
31.For multiple slides of same heading, use Heading Name (1/2), Heading
Name (2/2) etc. Try to consolidate in one slide. Make multiple slides of
same heading only if extreme necessary.
32.References must be second last slide.
33.Write ‘Thank You!’ on last slide.
34.Name the slides as project abbreviation_Proposal Defense_rev xxx. Follow
this pattern in all future tasks.
35.Check presentation on projector before final defense for any modification.
36.Take care of arrows sizes and line bending in the flowchart.
37.Insert project plans of both FYP 1 and FYP 2.
38.Justify any thing you mentioned in the slides. If you can’t justify something,
don’t include it.
39.Please avoid Indian or Chinese Journal articles of low quality. However, you
may add references of these of high quality papers of IEEE, Elsevier, SAGE,
Springer, Taylor and Francis etc.
40.The biggest bad point would be writing sentences in the presentation and
start reading word by word. Just write main point and explain yourself in the
defense.
41.Remove unnecessary full stops or spaces in words. Be careful of
punctuation. Also check for any grammar mistakes.
42.Flowchart is one word. “Flow chart” is wrong.
43.Write objectives as: To design…., To formulate….
44.In the expected outcomes section, write as ….1) design of …., 2)
formulation of …..
45.Write problem statement in bullets instead of one big paragraph
46.Add work distribution among team members in the work break down
structure slide.
47.Learn to how to write Introduction, Problem Statement, Objectives,
Literature Review and Methodology by searching on google as follows:
Finally, remember this point: