LAB REPORT MARKING SCHEME AND FORMAT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Malaya

PROGRAMME COURSE COURSE CODE SEMESTER SESSION : Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) : Mechanical Engineering Lab : KMEM 1170/2172/3175 :1 : 2011/ 2012

Students are advised to follow the format below when preparing for your laboratory reports. LAB-WRITING FORMAT: Main text: For the main text, please use font size of 11-point, Times New Roman with single-line spacing. Headings: Headings should be aligned to the left. The font sizes are given in Table 1. Table 1. Font sizes of headings. Heading level 1st-level heading 2nd-level heading Example 1 INTRODUCTION (UPPERCASE letter) 2.1 Printing Area (capitalize letter) Font size and style 12 point, bold 11 point, bold

Tables: Tables are printed within the body of the text at the centre of the frame, using font size 10 point. The label should be placed above the table itself and has the following format: Table 1 : Title 1 Table 2: Title 2 Figures: Figures, like tables are printed within the body of the text at the centre of the frame, using font size 10 point and are numbered sequentially: Figure 1, Figure 2, .... Page Numbering All page numbers should be printed 1.0 cm from the bottom margin and placed at the right hand side without any punctuation. Font size 8 recommended for numbers. Number of Pages The report should be written concisely within the recommended 10 pages, excluding Front Cover and Initial Report.

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Item Front Cover Description A sheet provided by the lab technician for you to fill in your details such as name, matric number, title of experiment, etc. This section should be included in the beginning of the report. It is the summary of the experiment and should be written in one paragraph and contain no more than 300 words. This section includes the theoretical background related to the experiment, how the equation involved in calculation is derived and defined, and even applications of the principles employed in the experiment. You can search the information from the books, journals, conference proceedings, as well as the Internet sources provided that you have to rephrase each sentence from the original sources with the citation at the end of the sentence. The most serious breach of ethical standards in writing report/dissertation/thesis is the offence of plagiarism: the expropriation of the intellectual property of another. Plagiarism is defined as the use of original work, ideas or actual texts created by others, without acknowledging the original source. For citations in the text please use round brackets with authors surname and year of publication inside. An example of introduction with acknowledgement or citation should be made as below: There are two ways of reducing or suppressing the vibration; passive and active control. Passive vibration control consists of mounting passive material on the vibrating structure in order to change its dynamic characteristics such as stiffness and damping coefficient (Jnifene, 2007), which is efficient at high frequencies but expensive and bulky at low frequencies (Hossain and Tokhi, 1997). The device for passive control usually is an energy absorption or dissipation device, for example viscoelastic damper, dynamic absorber, shock absorber, to provide extra damping, alleviate mechanical vibration, and improve overall system dynamic (Tzou, 1988). The function of these elements is simply to react passively in opposition to the accelerations, deflection or velocities imposed upon them by vibration. They require no external assistance to oppose the vibration response except their immediate passive neighbours or structural components which interact with them (Mead, 1998). The simplicity of the devices and that the system Marks (%) 10

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Introduction/ Theoretical Background

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will always be stable are the advantages of this approach. However, since it is a fixed design, there is no way that the damping can be optimal under all operating conditions (Wang and Kim, 1991). The above references are as below:
1. Hossain, M. A. and Tokhi, M. O. (1997). Evolutionary adaptive active vibration control, Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part I, 211, (3), 183-193. Jnifene, A. (2007). Active vibration control of flexible structures using delayed position feedback. Systems and Control Letters, 56, (3), 215-222. Mead, D. J. (1998). Passive vibration control. John Wiley & Sons, England. Tzou, H. S. (1988). Dynamic analysis and passive control of viscoelastically damped nonlinear dynamic contacts. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 4, (3), 209-224. Wang, K. W. and Kim, Y. S. (1991). Semi-active vibration control of structures via variable damping elements. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 5, (5), 421-430.

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Objective(s) Results and Discussion

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References

The introduction should be written within 1000 - 1500 words. The purpose of the experiment should be written in bullet form. Calculations and experimental data are presented in this section. Results can be presented in graphs, tables, etc. In the discussion, you can include whether your results agree with the theory, possible reasons and errors for the discrepancies and inconsistencies, and possible suggestions to improve the results. The conclusions should correspond to the objectives of the experiment. It should be written in one paragraph and contain no more than 150 words. References used such as books, articles (journals/proceedings), and Internet sources should be written according to the given format. Number the references alphabetically.
Journals: Author(s) (Year of publication). Title of the article. Name of the journal, volume number, (issue number if available), page number. Example: Hossain, M. A. and Tokhi, M. O. (1997). Evolutionary adaptive active vibration control, Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part I, 211, (3), 183-193. Conference proceedings: Author(s) (Year of publication). Title of the article. Name of the conference, conference venue, conference date, page number. Example: Abd Latif, I. and Tokhi, M. O. (2009). Fast convergence strategy for particle swarm optimization using spreading factor, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May 2009, 2693-

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2700. Books: Author(s) (Year of publication). Title of the book. Location: Publisher. Example: Dorigo, M. and Sttzle, T. (2004). Ant colony optimization, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Internet sources: Author(s) (Date of publication). Title of document. Retrieved day, month, year, from http://Web address. Example: Bernstein, M. (2002). A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. Retrieved 2 May 2006, from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cite living

Initial report

This is basically the sheet of paper in which you write your name, matric number, group number, date of experiment, title of experiment and results table. The lab demonstrator will sign and stamp on your initial report. It should be submitted together with your lab report. Do not retype the raw data in the results table in Results and Discussion.

TOTAL MARKS DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS: Lab reports : 100%

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GENERAL INFORMATION: 1. Please be punctual during your lab sessions. Lab can only start when each and every member of your group are there except unforeseen circumstances. 2. Please submit your lab report before the due date, which is two weeks after each experiment (Semester break included). Marks will be deducted for the late submissions. 3. If you are not able to attend your lab session, please inform the lab coordinator (tutor) to reschedule for a replacement time. You will get zero marks for the respective experiment if you are absent. 4. Please do not copy and paste your friends or your seniors lab reports. Marks will be shared among you and your friends if you do so.

Please do not hesitate to contact your lab coordinator if there are any questions.