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UFMFX8-30-3 The Individual Engineering Project - Global College Of Engineering and Technology

Project on: Biomass Energy Potential and Utilization in Oman.

The total requested are two as below:

1. The project report (study/dissertation)

2. Project Poster

• Abstract:A brief statement to introduce the investigation/work, and to state, briefly, the findings made and the conclusions reached. The abstract may be 20 - 30 lines in length.

• Acknowledgements: if you wish, add a brief paragraph acknowledging the help and support you received throughout your project. Note that this is a formal document, so you should also write this paragraph formally - not light-heartedly.

• Disclaimer: Put a disclaimer in, to show this is your own work.

• Contents page: You must provide a full list of all chapters and sub-sections with associated page numbers. Where relevant, further pages can be added after the Contents page:
o Nomenclature
o Glossary of Terms
o List of Tables
o List of Figures

• Introduction: The Introduction informs the reader of your reasons for doing the investigation. It sets out the project's context - the state of knowledge before the investigation commenced, and why you conducted the project. You should state whether the project was a supervisor's idea based on his/her research interests, part of an industrial project, or based upon your own interests. You should also show the project brief, developed at the start of the project.

• Scope and Objectives: You must clearly state your project's aims and objectives, and the scope in which these are set. At this stage you should refer to your project plan, and note any deviations from the original plan and why.

• Background Research: You need to provide your reader with sufficient background to understand the project and its relevance to you. The Background Research is where you explain your initial thinking about the project's context. This is developed further through the:

• Literature Survey/Review: You must research your project before commencing detailed practical or investigative work. You should continue this process as the project progresses to ensure you stay on track. Analyse and discuss your review's major findings, and their implications for your project development.

• Methodology: State how you developed your project methodology, based on your background research and reading. Explain why you chose a particular approach, and all assumptions you made.
• Analysis and Evaluation: State all your findings and the various concepts you have evaluated to arrive at the final set of results and conclusions of the research or investigation. The precise make-up of the chapters in the body of the report will be very dependent on the nature of the topic undertaken, such as:
o Analysis: theoretical, computational, design
o Specification
o Concept
o Preferred Design
o Implementation
o Testing /Trials
o Empirical results: analysis of results and discussion

• Critical Thinking: You must discuss within your Dissertation the project's significance and context, your opinions of the activities you undertook and your engagement with the related theory. You should begin to formulate your own questions about the theory, and describe how this helps you formulate potential solutions. Additionally, consider how your project relates to the Engineering Council's Competencies for Engineers (UK-SPEC) - this helps you prove you are meeting such professional engineering requirements. Consider the wider context of your project, including ethical, environmental, financial and societal issues.

• Conclusion: The conclusion draws together the different aspects of the project, comparing the results obtained, or the work achieved, with that originally intended.

• Recommendations for Further Work: At the conclusion of the project, you will have developed other ideas, things that were not within the scope of the original project, but which could be attempted to further the general level of knowledge. These should be itemised in the Recommendations chapter.

• References: You must cite all references you use in the report, and all these references must be itemised in this section. All references must be set up using the UWE Harvard referencing system.

• Bibliography (not compulsory, but is useful): Books or other published material that you have used to assist the study, but which you have not actually cited in the text as references should be itemised, in UWE Harvard format.

• Appendices: These include the same documents as you submitted for your Interim Research proposal; however, you are expect to update them regularly through your project, and provide the final versions in this section of your Final Report:
o Your Project Plan
o Your updated Ethics Checklist, Risk Assessment and Resources Forms, plus your Contacts Register
o Also any supporting material, e.g. pages of tabular results that support the main text but do not fit the "flow" of the report should be included in the appendices. It is not necessary to include data or copies of pages from, e.g.
standard catalogues (reference these instead).

Attachment:- Report Guidelines.zip