SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY

(Established under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956)

JEPPIAAR NAGAR, RAJIV GANDHI SALAI, 600 119
www.sathyabamauniversity.ac.in

Circular No: HoD/09/2009-2010 Date : 03.03.2010

HOD’s CIRCULAR
Sub: UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS – MARCH-MAY, 2010 – FOR ALL REGULAR COURSES

The HOD’s are requested to make a note of the University Examinations dates, for the
even semester 2009-2010.

PROJECT & FINAL SEMESTER LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS:

• 13 – 14, March 2010 All 6th Semester B.Sc/BBA/BCA Mini Project and
Laboratory Examinations
• 20 & 21 March, 2010 All PG Courses
• 22-27 March, 2010 All UG (B.E.,/B.Tech/B.Arch); MBA/MCA
Note: HOD’s are requested to inform their students to adhere to the formats for Project
Report Submission attached, for the purpose of uniformity in Project Reports.

UNIVERSITY PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS :

• For all UG and PG Courses:
other than 1st & 2nd Semester Labs 12-17, April, 2010.
1st & 2nd Semester Labs 02-07, May, 2010.

Note: The HOD’s are requested to prepare the practical examinations schedule as per
the above mentioned dates and submit to the COE office, after the approval of the
Directors. The last date of submitting the Schedules is 10th March, 2010.
TENTATIVE UNIVERSITY THEORY EXAMINATIONS (for all Courses):
• Other than 1st and 2nd Semester Exams 19th APRIL to 8th MAY, 2010

• 1st & 2nd Semester Exams 10th to 26th May, 2010

DIRECTOR
GUIDELINES FOR PROJECT KEY IN, PRINTOUT, BINDING & SUBMISSION:

1. Students should make a note of the guidelines for project preparation and
also should take a copy of cover page, Declaration page, bonafide certificate
and acknowledgement formats for uniformity of the project Report.
2. Students are allowed to take one copy of Project Report. The Department
copy should be submitted in the form of CD only.
3. After taking the printout, students should keep the pages in proper order
and it should be given to binding along with the cover page.
4. Students are not allowed to take printout and binding, if they are not able to
do it in the project key in dates.
5. The project Report should be hard bound and the cover page can be got
from the binding Section.
6. All UG and PG Students can Key in their project work in the respective
department computer labs.
 PROJECT REPORT FORMAT GUIDELINES (BOTH FOR UG & PG)
Sequence of topics to be maintained in the Project Report:
 Title Page
 Bonafide Certificate – University format
Bonafide from the place where the work is carried out, on their letter head
 Declaration – University format
 Acknowledgement – Order of names to acknowledged is attached
 Contents with page numbers
 List of Abbreviations, if applicable
 List of figures, list of tables, if applicable
 Abstract of the work
 Chapter – 1, Introduction
 Chapter – 2, Aim and Scope of the present investigation
 Chapter – 3, Experimental or materials and methods; algorithms used
 Chapter – 4, Results and Discussion, Performance Analysis
 Chapter – 5, Summary and Conclusions
 Bibliography / References
- for Journals – name of authors, journal name, volume number, year of publication,
page numbers, starting and ending.
- For Books – name of author, title, name of editor, publisher, year, page numbers.
- Valid internet articles.
 Sub chapters should be numbered as follows:
Eg. Sub Chapter of chapter 1 should be numbered as Chapter 1.1
Further sub chapters should be numbered as 1.1.1, 1.1.2 ,….
 Letter Font and Line spacings:
To be followed throughout the project work
Line space – 1.5
Font Size - 12
Font Type - Arial
Margin space - Left 3cm; Right – 2.5cm; Top- 2cm; and Bottom – 1.7cm

 Major headings – all caps – 14 font size

 Sub headings – Heading in caps – 12 font size
 Further sub headings – 12 font size, bold, italics
 Still further sub headings – 12 font size, italics
 Legend for Figures & tables:
Figure – Fig:1 : Self descriptive title, 12 font size, italics, bold (should be below the
figure)
Table – Table 1 : self descriptive title, 12 font size, bold (should be above the table)

 Page numbers should be centered at the bottom of each page, starting from
Introduction chapter onwards.
 For Contents, Abstract, List of Abbreviations, List of figures, list of tables – the
page numbers should be in the format (i), (ii), (iii)………… and centered at the
bottom of the page.
 DECLARATION FORMAT

I ______________________(Name/s of the Candidate)_________________ hereby

declare that the Project Report entitled

“_____________________________________________________

_______________________________ done by me under the guidance of Dr. /Prof./

Mr./Ms. __ _________(Internal) and ______________________(External) at

_________________________

___________________________________(Company name and address) is submitted

in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree in

_______________________________.

DATE:

PLACE: SIGNATURE OF THE CANDIDATE/S

 SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
(Established under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956)
JEPPIAAR NAGAR, RAJIV GANDHI SALAI, 600 119
www.sathyabamauniversity.ac.in

DEPARTMENT OF _________________________________________

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that this Project Report is the bonafide work of Mr./Ms.
_________________ _________________________________ Reg. No.
________________________________ who carried out the project entitled
“________________________________________________
_______________________________” under our supervision from December 2006 to
March, 2007.

Internal Guide External Guide

(Name in Capital letters (Name in Capital letters
with Signature) with signature)

Head of the Department

(Name in Capital letters with Seal & Signature)

Submitted for Viva voce Examination held on_____________________

Internal Examiner External Examiner

(Name in Capital letters (Name in Capital letters
with Signature) with signature)
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The first paragraph of the Acknowledgements should thank the following

dignitaries in the under mentioned sequence:

Chancellor Dr. JEPPIAAR, M.A., B.L., Ph.D.,

Directors Thiru. Marie Johnson, B.E., M.B.A., M.Phil

Tmt. Mariazeena Johnson, B.E., M.B.A., M.Phil

Vice Chancellor Dr. N.Manoharan, M.E.(Distinction)., Ph.D.

Followed by HOD, guide and others.