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COLOUR OF THE WRAPPER / OUTER COVER / FRONT PAGE OF UG & PG

DISSERTATION / PROJECT REPORT

a. Colour of wrapper:
Faculty of Engineering (including BCA and MCA programs): Ivory
b. PESU Logo in colour
c. Matter (Title, Student name, SRN, and others): Black

GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF THE DISSERTATION SHALL BE AS

FOLLOWS:

1. Dissertation should be typed neatly with 1.5 line spacing on a A4 size bond paper (210 x
297 mm) on one side only.

The margins should be:

Left – 1.25″

Right – 1″

Top and Bottom – 0.75″

Font: Times New Roman

Chapter names: FONT SIZE – 14, ALL CAPS, BOLD

1st Level Heading: Numbering e.g. 1.1 (for Chapter 1), Font Size – 12, Bold

2nd Level Heading: Numbering e.g. 1.1.1 (for Chapter 1), Font Size – 12

Matter: Font Size - 12

Header-Font Size – 10: Title of the Project (Left Justified), Academic Year (Right
Justified)

Footer-Font Size - 10: Dept. of Mech. Engg., PES University (Left Justified), Page
Number (Right Justified)

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2. The total number of reports to be prepared are

a. One copy to each candidate

b. One copy to the concerned guide(s)

c. One copy to the Department / Office of COE

d. Copies to the company / research lab / organization, in case of external projects

(numbers as required)

3. The finalized project report should be checked for plagiarism using “Turnitin” software
and a plagiarism report is to be generated with the assistance of departmental staff
coordinators. The plagiarism check is to be made only for the main body of the project i.e.,
from the chapter on introduction to the chapter on conclusions and scope for future work
(references not to be included), excluding header and footer. The maximum permissible
plagiarism limit is 15%.

4. Prior to finalization and printing bound copy of the reports, the approval of the concerned
guide(s) is mandatory and suggested corrections, if any, must be incorporated.

5. Each copy of the project report must consist of the following in the order mentioned:
(Formats shared along with this file)

a) Outer Cover Page / Wrapper Page

a. Faculty of Engineering (including BCA and MCA programs): Ivory
b. Faculty of Management: Sky Blue

b) Inner title page (White)

c) Certificate in the format enclosed both from the University and the organization
where the project is carried out (if applicable)

d) Declaration

e) Acknowledgments

f) Abstract: not exceeding 300 words, indicating salient features of the work

g) Table of Contents

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h) List of Tables (if any, numbered in order)

i) List of Figures (if any, numbered in order)

j) Nomenclature

Description of the project work to come under the following chapters

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Literature Review

Chapter 3. Project Work Details: This could have many sub-chapters under headings
such as Governing Equations and Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Scheme,
Experimental Set up and Calibration, Material Preparation, Experimental
Investigation and Data Collection and Reduction, etc, as the case might be.

Chapter 4. Results and Discussion

Chapter 5. Conclusions and Scope for Future Work

References

Appendix (if any)

Plagiarism Report

Extract of paper(s) published in journal / conference, based on project work

A3 printout of project poster

5. Chapters containing Introduction, Literature Review, etc., of the report is to be divided

appropriately into sections and subsections.

6. The chapters, sections and subsections may be numbered in the decimal form for e.g.
Chapter 1, sections as 1.1, 1.2, etc., and subsections as 1.2.3, 1.2.5, etc.

7. The figures and tables must be numbered chapter wise for e.g.: for chapter 3 - Fig. 3.1:
Block diagram of Air Flow Analyzer, Table 3.1: Characteristics of Scrubber Effluents, etc.
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8. Reference or Bibliography: The references should be numbered serially in the order of

their occurrence in the text and their numbers should be indicated within square brackets
for e.g. [3]. The references should be listed in serial order as per guidelines provided
here under.
9. Only SI units are to be used in the report.
10. All equations must be numbered in decimal form, as mentioned below:
In chapter 4, equation 7: Ẃ =ḿ 1 e 1 − ḿ2 e 2 − Q́− [ ∆ E ] sys ……………(4.7)
11. Reproduction of material verbatim available elsewhere should be strictly avoided. If short
excerpts from published work are to be included, they should be within quotation marks
and appropriately referenced.

12. Attention is to be given to the technical contents, organization of the report and clarity of
the expression. Grammatical errors are to be avoided (including spelling and typing
errors).

13. Projects based on Hardware must include: the component layout, complete circuit with the
component list containing the name of the component, numbers used, etc. and the main
component data sheets as Appendix. At the time of report submissions, the students must
hand over a copy of these details to the project coordinator and see that they are entered in
proper registers maintained in the department.

14. Projects based on Software must include a virus free disc, containing the software
developed by them along with the ‘Read Me’ file. The ‘Read Me’ file should contain the
details of the variables used, salient features of the software and procedure of using them:
compiling procedure, details of the computer hardware/software requirements to run the
same, etc. If the developed software uses any public domain software downloaded from
some site, then the address of the site along with the module name etc. must be included
on a separate sheet. It must be properly acknowledged in the acknowledgments.

15. Sponsored / External Projects must also satisfy the above requirements along with
statement of accounts, bills for the same dully attested by the concerned guides to process
further, they must also produce NOC from the concerned guide before taking the internal
viva examination.

16. The reports submitted to the department/guide(s) must be hard bound.

17. Separator sheets, used if any, between chapters, should be of thin white paper.

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WRITING REFERENCES - GUIDELINES

BOOKS
Include (if available): author’s last name and first name; year of publication; title; edition (if not
1st); place of publication and publisher.

[1] Bryman, Alan. 2008. Social research methods. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[2] Fabozzi, Frank J., Modigliani, Franco and Jones, Frank J. 2010. Foundations of financial
markets and institutions. 4th ed. Boston: Prentice Hall.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
Include (if available): Last name(s) and first name(s) of author(s). Year of publication. Title of
article. Journal name Volume (issue): page numbers of article.

Examples:

[3] Lundmark, Linda. 2005. Economic restructuring into tourism in the Swedish mountain
range. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism5 (1): 23–45.

[4] Graham, Elspeth and Boyle, Paul. 2001. Editorial introduction:(re)theorising population
geography: mapping the unfamiliar. International Journal of Population Geography 7 (6):
389-394.

WEB PAGES, BLOGS

Include (if available): author, organization, authority or company. Last update of web page
(year). Title of document or page. Name of web site or owner of web site. Complete URL
(http://.....) (Access date).

[5] Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2010. Health: OECD says
governments must fight fat.
http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_21571361_44315115_46064099_1_1_1_1,0
0.html (Accessed 2010-10-10).

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Lectures/presentations at conferences and seminars are published in anthologies called
proceedings. Title, year and city of conference are to be included if known. Individual
contributions to conference proceedings, if published in their totality (not abstract only) are
treated as chapters in books.

[6] Hall, C. Michael. 2007. North-south perspectives on tourism, regional development and
peripheral areas. In Dieter K. Müller and Bruno Jansson (eds.), Tourism in peripheries:
perspectives from the north and south, 19-38. Perspectives on tourism in Nordic and other
peripheral areas, 2004, Umeå. Wallingford: CABI.

Sometimes those contributions that are only represented by abstracts in the proceedings are
published in journals. You should in these cases not refer to the abstract in the proceedings but to
the full article in the journal where it was published.

STANDARDS

Author. Year (in round brackets). Standard title (in italics). Standard number (in round brackets).
Retrieved from the homepage URL of the publisher. The first line of each citation is left adjusted.
Every subsequent line is indented 5-7 spaces.
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Example:

[7] Standards Australia, & Standards New Zealand. (2018). Interior and workspace lighting
part 2.5: Hospital and medical tasks (AS/NZS 1680.2.5-2018). Retrieved from
https://www.saiglobal.com/.

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