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BENCH INSPECTION DAY,
POSTERS & FINAL REPORT
ELEC340 & ELEC440:
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
Engineers Design Products
- You are nearly qualified engineers – Behave Professional!
- Present your product to a customer.
- Relate back to your specifications
- Know your background and other products on the market.
2 Assessment Stages remaining
• Bench Inspection and Poster Presentation (20%)
– either Tuesday 19th or Wednesday 20th March 2024
– You are allocated to a particular day.
– you need to book a bench position with the 4th floor lab
technicians.
• Final Report (Thesis / Dissertation) (55%)
– due midnight on Wednesday 17th April 2024
– submission on Canvas pages for ELEC340 or ELEC440
Important Deadlines
• 08/03/2023 Last Day to:
book you bench
order components
PCB manufacturing
Laser cutting
3D Printing
• 13/03/2022 Submit project abstract (on Canvas)
• 19-20/03/2022 Bench Inspection
• 17/04/2022 Submit Final Report (on Canvas)
Manufacturing guidance
• Resources for PCB manufacturing and 3D printing are very strained at
this point. Please make sure to get it right.
• Draw all important parts, not just the bit you need made
• We don’t manufacture simple boxes it’s easier to buy them.
• Laser cutting is much quicker than 3D printing. Use it for lager parts.
PCB guidance
• Use through-hole components were possible.
• Check the actual size of your components.
• Use Design Rule Checks to confirm your board is
right.
• Our workshop cannot trough-plate holes – make
sure you can solder your joints.
• Remember connectors. (Power, inputs, outputs)
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BENCH INSPECTION DAY &
POSTERS
ELEC340 & ELEC440:
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
BENCH INSPECTION DAY
• Day is assigned to you (See Canvas)
• Book your Bench now!
• 4th-floor lab technicians will assign you a bench to present.
• Two options:
– Software project: Desk in a computer lab with a Windows PC.
– Hardware project Bench in 4th-floor main lab with test equipment and a
PC.
• Talk to the technical team about specific needs (hardware
software at your bench).
• Look professional
BENCH INSPECTION DAY
• See notes online on Canvas.
• Set up your poster and any equipment on your designated bench at
9.00 a.m.
• Be available throughout the day to present and explain in detail your
project work to your Supervisor and Assessor who will both mark you.
• Some students will also present your work to the External Examiners
and the visiting Industrial Advisory Board (IAB).
• Your supervisor, assessor and the IAB will be interested in real-world
/ industrial applications of your project – think about this aspect in
advance.
• Year 2 students allowed to visit in the afternoon
SAFETY AT THE BENCH INSPECTION DAY
• The safety team will inspect your project early in the day.
• Make sure your project is safe for you and the public, matches
your risk assessment, and has ethical approval where
necessary.
• If you got any doubt consults with your supervisor / lab
technicians / safety team BEFORE bench inspection day.
• Please have a copy of your risk assessment/ethical approval (if
needed) available.
• If you project is deemed unsafe or is lacking ethical approval it
will be removed from the lab.
Bench Inspection mark allocation
• The bench inspection is worth 20% of the module mark.
• The bench inspection mark is made up from 5 components:
– Quality of presentation 20%
– Poster display 20%
– Student achievement 20%
– Response to questions 20%
– Log book 20%
• See Detailed marking descriptors on Canvas
ABSTRACT
• The abstract will be used to ‘advertise’ your work to industrial visitors.
• Short summary of your project between 100 and 200 words which.
• must be capable of being read and understood independently.
• briefly summarise
– Project title and your name
– Purpose and scope of the work
– Procedures that were carried out
– Main results
– Conclusions
• Use text only (no graphs ore images can be submitted)
• Deadline Wednesday 13th of March
THE POSTER
• A good poster should be informative and can be used to two ways:
– As an aid when you present your project – use good quality pictures,
diagrams and graphs for this purpose – don’t assume someone can listen
to you and read your poster at the same time.
– To inform someone reading your poster when you are unavoidably absent.
• Good posters do not have too much text – use a large font that can
be read from a distance.
• Include the basics; your name, title of project, name of supervisor,
etc.
• Posterboards available on the day in the labs.
• Please submit a digital copy of your poster on Canvas.
Log book:
• Your log book will be marked as part of the bench inspection.
• The log book is a contemporaneous record of your work undertaken
as part of the project.
• Never rewrite or retype your log book. If the log book is written or
changed some time after the events happened, it is not a log book.
• An untidy log book written at the time of the work is much better
than a tidy ’log book’ written, or rewritten, after the events.
CONSIDER A VIDEO
• Videos are not compulsory this year.
• Most projects can benefit from a video
• E.g.:
– Animation of modelling results.
– Time laps of slow experiments.
– Show parts that you cannot demonstrate in the lab (e.g.
experiments in B-block).
– Backup if things don’t work as intended.
Lab opening hours during Easter vacation
• The 4th floor lab will be open during the Easter vacation 9:00-16:00
(except on Friday 29th March and Monday 1st April when the
University is closed).
• You can use the lab as a quiet place to work on writing up your final
report.
• Access to the 4th floor lab will be via the intercom system at the
door nearest to the lifts for security reasons.
• Technical support will be reduced will be reduced during the Easter
vacation.
FINAL REPORT (THESIS /
DISSERTATION)
ELEC340 & ELEC440:
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
The final report (thesis / dissertation)
• Detailed instructions will be available on Canvas.
• Typical Thesis lengths are between 7,000 and 15,000 words (30-50
pages). Please, discuss with your Supervisor the anticipated length
of your final report.
• Deadline is midnight on Wednesday 17nd April 2024.
• Submission on Canvas pages for ELEC340 and ELEC440.
• Please make sure you PDF file does not convert text to images.
Structure of the final report
A typical FYP Report will normally contain the following sections, but
your report may require a different structure:
1. Title page.
2. Summary (or Abstract) - a short section of between 100 and 300
words.
3. Introduction
4. Literature review
5. Industrial relevance, real-world applicability and
scientific/societal impact - this section is compulsory and
should be around 700-1000 words in length
6. Theory
Structure of the final report
A typical FYP Report will normally contain the following sections but
your report may require a different structure:
7. Design
8. Experimental method
9. Results and Calculations
10.Discussion - (very important)
11.Conclusions
12.Reflection on learning
13.References
14.Project Specification table and Gantt chart
15.Other Appendices