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1.0 INTRODUCTION
This is the Final Year Project handbook of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. This handbook contains information about the preparation, the implementation and the completion of the Final Year Project.
This handbook is the result of an effort initiated to define the policy and improve the quality of Final Year Project. The intention of this handbook is to develop a standardized framework for our students. It serves as guideline to the expected format and content of the Final Year Project deliverables for students and also provides evaluation rubrics for supervisors and examiners.
Management and coordination of the Final Year Project involves the cooperation of coordinators, supervisors, assessors and students. Accordingly, the management and coordination activities of the Final Year Project need to be well implemented. In this handbook, the duties and responsibilities of each involved are detailed so that the activities of management of the Final Year Project can be coordinated between departments.
The production of this handbook is expected to serve as a reference and guide throughout the implementation of the Final Year Project for all stakeholders including coordinators, supervisors, assessors and students. In addition, this handbook also includes documents related to the implementation of the Final Year Project in the faculty. This handbook also comes with a rubric-based thesis writing and scoring guide that will assist all parties in the process of implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Final Year Project.
The Final Year Project is part of the Faculty requirements consisting of two parts. The first part involves writing a project proposal and some preliminary work while the second part involves conducting the experimental work, writing the final project report and oral presentation. All students must pass these courses to graduate.
2.0 RULES
Here are the general rules that every student should follow in the Final Year Project:
• Students should develop on their own and be prohibited from hiring or allowing
others to develop part or all of their projects.
• Students are not allowed to commit plagiarism, forgery or data fraud.
• Students who do the above may be given an F grade.
3.0 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY
There are several parties involved in the implementation of the Final Year Project. They consist of project coordinators representing the department and assisted by lecturers as supervisors and project evaluators and students themselves. The Faculty Final Year Project Committee (FFYP Committee) govern the conduct of the final year project. Refer Table 1.
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