CIVL 3013 LEVEL III PROJECT

Project Co-ordinator
Dr. J. Yang
Office: HW 6-25
Email: junyang@hku.hk; Tel: 2241 2573

Secretary
Ms. Betty Tsang
Departmental Office
Email: blctsang@hkucc.hku.hk; Tel: 2859 2286
 MAJOR EVENTS

Project talk and project selection form Today

Fill in and return form to Ms. Tsang latest by May 24, 2010

Project allocation results will be available on June 4, 2010

Submit interim report not later than Feb, 2011

Oral Presentation (30 minutes) March, 2011

Submit project report not later than April 2011

The primary aim of the project is
─ to give the student an opportunity to handle a
practical engineering problem and present its
findings in a precise and concise report.

An important part of the project lies in the way in

which the student plans and carries out the work,
and applies his/her engineering knowledge
sensibly and diligently to the solution of the
problem.
Project Title List
 The project allocation
method is computer
matching.

May 24, 2008 (Saturday)

Four criteria in evaluating a
student’s project work

Initiative and originality

Competence

Diligence

Communication skills
Assessment

Interim report 15 marks

Oral presentation 25 marks

Final report 100 marks

Total: 140 marks

Report Format

A report written in good English (and in your own

words) of not more than 50 pages long.
It should be prepared using a suitable word
processing package (e.g. Microsoft Word) and
printed on both sides of A4 size sheets with size
12 “Times New Roman” fonts. In general, SI
units should be used. A left hand margin of 25
mm should be provided. Standard single-line
spacing should be adopted.
Title page
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Main Body of Report
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Bibliography
Appendices
Main Body of Report
Introduction
Literature review/theory
Work done
Problems encountered
Summary of results
Discussion of results
Conclusions
Recommendations
Interim Report

may include a literature review, preliminary findings
and future plans for completing the project

maximum 10 pages long with single line spacing

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is the worst of intellectual

dishonesty. If you are found to be guilty of
plagiarism, you will have to undertake a new
project in the summer or repeat the year,
depending upon your performance in other
courses.
PLAGIARISM

QUOTATION
QUOTATIONS

The correct use of references and

quotations is essential to the completion of
a well-written project report.
QUOTATIONS

Quotations of only a few words or a phrase

should be indicated as shown below:

In research aimed at investigating construction

firms' marketing methods Baker and Orsaah
(1985) investigated "how customers choose their
contractor" and found that low price, company
financial standing and company reputation were
the major factors.
QUOTATIONS
Quotations of more than one sentence should
be indented, single-spaced and written in italics
as shown below:
Bromilow (1974) succinctly states that in his
opinion:
"the most significant overall objectives in
building operations are to define the design and
specifications, price and timing of the proposed
building, and, once they have been agreed by the
client, to meet them."
REFERENCES

Full details of all published and unpublished

books, articles, reports and journal papers used
or referred to in your project should be included
in the bibliography at the end of the main body
of your report and should be arranged
alphabetically by author and then by date of
publication (if the author has more than one
publication).
REFERENCES

Book:
Fellows, R., Langford, D., Newcombe, R. & Urry,
S., Construction Management in Practice,
Longman: Singapore, 1983.
Journal paper:
Leung, A.Y.T., "A simple method for
exponentially modulated random excitation",
Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 112, No. 2,
1987, pp 273-282.
REFERENCES

Thesis:
Stocks, R.K., The building team: an organisation
of organisations, M.Sc. Thesis, Heriot-Watt
University, 1984.