BHARAT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

FORMAT FOR PREPARATION OF SEMINAR REPORT FOR B. TECH. ECE

A Seminar Report Each student is required to write a comprehensive report about the seminar. The report Should consist of 25 to 60 pages describing the topic selected. The report should be in the format as described below. It is important that you adhere to these guidelines. 1. ARRANGEMENT OF VARIOUS PAGES AND CONTENTS: The sequence in which the seminar report material should be arranged and bound should be as follows. 1. Cover Page & Title Page 2. Bonafide Certificate1 (College Certificate) 3. Acknowledgement 4. Abstract 5. Table of Contents 6. List of Tables 7. List of Figures 8. List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature 9. Chapter 1: Introduction 10. Chapter 2: Literature Survey. 11. Chapter 3: Methodology 12. Chapter 4: Procedures, Setup, Manufacturing, Fabrication, etc 13. Chapter 5etc Result Analysis & Discussion .14.Conclusion 15. Scope of Future work 16. Appendices 17. References
The table and figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places 2. PAGE DIMENSION AND BINDING

SPECIFICATIONS:

The dimension of the seminar report should be in A4 size. The seminar report should be bound ( soft binding ) using specified colour paper TYPING INSTRUCTIONS: One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text. The general text shall be justified and typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font size 12. Subheading shall be typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font size 12 and bold. Heading shall be typed in the Font style Times New Roman and Font size 14 and bold. Note: before taking print crosschecked & verify the softcopy by the seminar coordinator.

3. PREPARATION FORMAT: 3.1 Cover Page & Title Page A specimen copy of the Cover page & Title page of the seminar report are given in Appendix 1. 3.2 Bonafide Certificate1 The Bonafide Certificate shall be in double line spacing using Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 12, as per the format in Appendix 2. The certificate shall carry the signatures of the guide, Seminar coordinator and Head of the Department and shall be followed by guide s name, designations, department and fulladdress of the institution , The name with academic designation of the Head of Departmentmust be typed and space shall be provided for the signature. 3.3 Abstract Abstract should be one page synopsis of the seminar report typed 1.5 (One and a half spacing ) line spacing, Two or Three paragraphs of Font Style Times New Roman and Font Size 12.

3.4 Table of Contents The table of contents should list all material following it as well as any material which precedes it. The title page and Bonafide Certificate will not find a place among the items listed in the Table of Contents but the page numbers of which are in lowercase Roman letters. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. A specimen copy of the Table of Contents of a seminar report is given in Appendix 3. 3.5 List of Tables The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear above the tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. 3.6 List of Figures The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear below the figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. Figures: Number figures consecutively in each chapter using the decimal system, i.e. the third figure in chapter 5 is Fig. 5.3. 3.7 List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature One and a half spacing should be adopted or typing the matter under this head. Standard symbols, abbreviations etc. should be used. 3.8 Chapters The chapters may be broadly divided into 3 parts (i) Introductory chapter, (ii)Chapters developing the main theme of the seminar work (iii) and Conclusion. The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may be further divided into several divisions and sub-divisions like Literature Survey, Methodology, and Procedures etc. Each chapter should be given an appropriate title. Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of the reference where they are cited..

3.9 Appendices Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is included in the main text may serve as a distraction and defocus the attention and may cloud the central theme. Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix2, etc .Appendices; Tables and References appearing in appendices should be numbered and referred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters. Appendices shall carry the title of the work reported and the same title shall be made in the contents page also. 3.10 List of References The listing of references should be typed 2 spaces below the heading REFERENCES in alphabetical order in Single spacing left justified . The reference material should be listed in the alphabetical order of the first author. The name of the author/authors should be immediately followed by the year and other details. In case of specific websites, provide the full path / link of the related reference. The generic websites like Google, Wikipedia, how stuff works etc should Not be included in the reports. A typical illustrative list given next page relates to the citation example quoted. REFERENCES 1.Jayachandran, T. Ramachandran, G.Study of Unsteady Flows in Segmented Solid RocketMotors , Journal of Physics, Vol.42, No.1, 2000 , pp. 421-425. 2.Barnard, R.W. and Kellogg, C.Applications of Convolution Operators to Problems inUnivalent Function Theory, Michigan Mach J., Vol.27, 1980 , pp.81 3.Shin, K.G. and Mckay, N.D. et al.Open Loop Minimum Time Control of MechanicalManipulations , Proc.Amer.Contr.Conf., San Diego, C A, 2009, pp. 1231-1236 . 4.William Stallings, Wireless Communication and Networks, 2 ndedition., June 2005,Prentice Hall of India. 5.Culity, B.D., Element of X ray Diffraction, 5 th Edition 1978 , Allison Wesley. 6.Sinke, W.C., The Photovoltaic Challenge MRS Bull etin, American Ceramic SocietyBulletin,1993, Vol. 18, No. 10, p.18. 7.Journal: www.elsevier.com/locate/actaastro/ layer insulations/. ( sciencedirect.com) 8.Site : www.sbir.nasa.gov/sbir/abstracts/06/sbir/phase2/SBIR-06-2-X9.01-1948.html. 9.Link : www.quest-corp.com/archieve/nasa/2000 0019 8625 1456.pdf. 3.10.1Table and figures By the word Table, is meant tabulated numerical data in the body of the seminar report as well as in the appendices. All other non-verbal materials used in the body of the seminar work and appendices such as charts, graphs, maps, photographs and diagrams may be designated as figures. Tables :Use the same numbering systems as that for figures. The table number and table description is however at the top of the table. In referring to a particular table the word table" is always capitalized.

Equations :Use the same numbering systems as figures and tables. The number is placed at the far right of the equation and is bracketed. If referred to in the text the word is capitalized and abbreviated (e.g. Eq 4.3) except at the beginning of a sentence, where it is spelled out. Footnotes : Footnotes appear at the foot of the page and are numbered with elevated numerals in sequence throughout the text and are single spaced. They serve two functions: to clarify or supplement a particular sentence or portion of the text, or to document a reference or source of information. They should be used only in unavoidable circumstances.

APPENDIX 1 (A typical Specimen of Cover Page & Title Page)

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<appendix-2> ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my gratitude to the H.O.D. <name> of Electronics & Communication Department for arranging the Seminar. I also want to thanks Prof.<name> and all faculty of department of electronics for cooperation from their part. I offer my sincere gratitude to my guide Mr. <name> for his continuous guidance and support. It will be in debt of my part if I forget to extend my thanks a lot to all those visible and invisible hands that helped me throughout my seminar.

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