3.2 Bonafide Certificate – The Bonafide Certificate shall be in double line spacing Times
New Roman using Font Style and Font Size 14, as per the format in Appendix 2. The
certificate shall carry the supervisor‟s signature and HoD's signature fro projects done in IIST
and signatures of equivalent people if it is done outside IIST.
3.3 Declaration by Author(s) – see template in appendix 3
3.4 Abstract – Abstract should be straight to the point; not too descriptive but fully
informative. The following things should appear in the abstract. (a) the problem addressed,
(b) its importance/novelty, (c) the approach adopted for solving the problem, highlighting
novelty, if any, (d) the major results obtained, (e) and the major conclusion. The abstract
does not have to be an entire summary of the project, but rather a concise summary of the
scope and results of the project. It should inform a reader whether to read or not the full text,
and also give a precise idea on what has been attempted. An abstract should be short, and
limited to 1 page. Include key words (Font Style: Times New Roman and Font Size: 12,
Spacing: Single)
3.5 Table of Contents – The table of contents should list all material following it as well as
any material which precedes it. The title page, Bonafide Certificate, and Declaration by
Authors may not be included in the Table of Contents, but the page numbers of which are in
lower case Roman numbers. The format of the table of contents is given in Appendix 4.
3.6 List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature –Standard symbols, abbreviations
etc. should be used.
3.7 Chapters – The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may
further be divided into sections and subsections. Chapters, sections, and subsections should
be given appropriate titles. Tables and figures should be placed in the immediate vicinity of
the first reference to them. Figure and table numbers should carry their chapter number. For
example Fig. 4.2 is the second figure in the fourth chapter.
The following are suggested chapters and what they could contain. The division into
chapters may vary from project to project. The important point is that the report should
mainly contain the work accomplished in the project, with a small portion devoted to
describing the problem addressed and how others have tackled this or similar problems. The
report should be understandable to your classmates. It should have sufficient detail to enable
the examiners to assess the validity of the approaches used and the results obtained.
a) Introduction
Introduction could contain the following. (a) brief statement of the problem, (b)
importance/novelty of the problem, (c) related literature - how others have addressed this
or similar problems and the relevant results they obtained (For example, “It has already