University of Kufa

Faculty of Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT'S GUIDE FOR

PROJECT
PREPARATION
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree in Electrical Engineering

Edited and Developed

BY
Assoc. Prof. Ghasan Ali Hussain
A. L. Ahmed Abdulelah Ahmed
2022/2023

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface 2

General Requirements 3

- Background 3
- Language 3
- Project Title 3
- The Fonts and Pages Styles of Project Report 3
- Cover Page 4
- Submission 4

Formatting and Samples 6

- Title of Project Sample 7

- Abstract Sample 8
- Acknowledgment Sample 9
- Declaration Sample 10
- Supervisor Approval Sheet Sample 11
- Examiners Approval Sheet Sample 12
- Table of Contents Sample 13
- List of Figures Sample 14
- List of Tables Sample 15
- List of Abbreviations Sample 16
- Chapter One Sample 17
- Chapter Two Sample 19
- Chapter Three Sample 20
- Chapter Four Sample 21
- Conclusion Sample 22
- References Sample 23
- Appendix 24

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 PREFACE

The graduation project is a summary of the undergraduate university study trip, and it

reflects the student's ability to put forward scientific ideas and issues based on evidence and

proofs to prove what he reached in his graduation project. Therefore, the student's interest in

writing his graduation project report should not be underestimated because it reflects the

student's personality and scientific ability. Hence, for the purpose of making the graduation

projects reports of the electrical engineering department’s students to appear in an appropriate

and a unified manner, making it easier for the reader to benefit from, the Department of

Electrical Engineering at the University of Kufa has prepared this booklet as an important

guide, for all students of the final stage, that must be followed and adhered to.

This handbook, which is prepared based on different international universities styles, is a main

guide and reference for writing undergraduate projects’ reports. It collects all details and

requirements of an undergraduate project. We hope this handbook could help the students in

learning how to write the project report to fulfill the undergraduate project’s requirements of

Electrical Engineering Department – University of Kufa.

2nd Edition (2022), By/

Assist Prof. Ghasan Ali Hussain
Head of Electrical Engineering Department.
University of Kufa

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 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

 Background

This chapter explains the general requirements of the bachelor project preparation that
was approved by Electrical Engineering Department / University of Kufa. All undergraduate
students must read this handbook thoroughly before intending to write their projects, referring
to this handbook step by step in their bachelor projects’ preparations, and follow the approved
formatting and the instructions found here.

 Language

One of the most important issues in writing any project report or thesis is the quality and
readability of the language, because that eases understanding what the author means and gives
proper image of the information inside the project or thesis. Therefore, the project must be
written using a simple and clear English language. Both British and American dialects of the
English language are approved by Electrical Engineering Department.

 Project Title
The title of project must not be more than 25 words. It should be put above the middle of
the project's report cover. It is preferred to avoid using abbreviations in the project title page
unless necessary and strictly after the supervisor approval. The font style of project title is
(Uppercase, Centered, Bold, and 20-point font).

 The Fonts and Pages Styles of Project Report

The Project report should be printed on high-quality printers. Poor quality papers or
unclear figures and images will be rejected. The page layout should be portrait layout except
for large figures or tables which is not suitable for portrait layout, these can be presented in the
landscape layout based on directions of the supervisor.

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 - The number of project report pages including figures, tables, references and appendices
should be between 40-80 pages.
- Only high quality papers are accepted with A4 (210mm x 297mm) size. Extra blank
sheets should be added for the front and back of the project report.
- All project report pages should be written using the same font style with different font
size as the following: -
 “Times New Roman” and “Arial” are the only accepted fonts to use in the report,
apart from programming code, which must be in “Lucida Sans Typewriter”.
 Text and subtitles must be using 12-point font size in normal style and without
using italic style (excluding other languages or scientific names).
 Headings must be using bold 14-point font size.
 Figures and tables captions should be using bold 12-point font size in normal
style.
- The report page margins should be 1 inch for all sides.
- The project report spacing must be 1.5 line. Single line spacing should be used for
references, footnotes, between headings and sub-headings, appendices, multi-line
captions and programming code.
- The pagination of the report should include all pages. Page numbers must be
appearing at right bottom margins without any additives such as brackets.
- All report pages must be printed on single side.
- Page numbering before Chapter 1 should use the style as (i, ii, iii …. etc), then use
style (1, 2, 3, …..etc) from chapter one onward.
- The pagination of title page and chapters’ beginning pages should be hidden.

 Cover Page

The front cover page should include (name of university, department and faculty logo,
student name, degree, supervisor name and date of submission).

 Submission

Before submitting the project report, it is necessary to ensure all requirements and
formatting has been carefully done based on this handbook. The signature of the supervisor is

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compulsory to accept submission of project report. The following are the procedure to submit
a project to the projects manager: -

1. Fill the project submission form (PF3) as in appendix, signed by the supervisor, and
submit it with the project.

2. Submit two copies of the project report to the projects manager.

3. If the project is accepted with corrections, the adapted project should be submitted
within 7-15 days or, otherwise, based on the report of the examiners committee, as
following: -

- Two hard-copies of the project report.

- One soft-copy of the project report on CD.

- The students are also required to submit a hard-copy of the project report to their
supervisor.

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 FORMATTING & SAMPLES

In this chapter, the structure of student's project is described with samples to ease
students understanding of how to write the project report. The structure of a project report
contains the followings: -

1) Preliminary pages (includes title page, approval sheets, dedication and

acknowledgements, table of contents, lists of abbreviations, figures and tables, and
abstracts).

2) Main text body (includes introduction, literature review, methodology, results and
conclusions).

3) The rest of pages (includes references and appendices).

See the samples below.

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Ministry of Higher Education &
Scientific Research College of Engineering
University of Kufa Electrical Engineering Department

TITLE OF PROJECT
(Uppercase, Centered, Bold, 20-point font)

Project Submitted to the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kufa in

Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Bachelor Degree

(Centered, Bold, 12-point font)

NAME OF STUDENT(S)

(Uppercase, Centered, Bold, 16-point font)

NAME OF SUPERVISOR

(Uppercase, Centered, Bold, 16-point font)

MONTH, YEAR OF SUBMISSION

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 ABSTRACT

The importance of abstract comes from the fact that it provides the first impression a
person gets of the project. Hence, the abstract should include a brief of the project that is being
explained to the reader. A good abstract begins with an introduction about the subject, followed
by the problem statements and a concise explanation of the problem which you need to solve
or deal with. A brief summary of methodology and achievements should also be included in
the abstract.

The abstract should not include abbreviations without defining them by full term at first use,
except for well-defined obvious abbreviations when necessary, based on directions of the
supervisor. No references should be used in the abstract. The abstract should not be less than
180 words and should not exceed 450 words.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In this section, students are free to write any beautiful words to express
acknowledgements and appreciation for whom person helped them through their study or any
other persons or institutions they like to thank them.

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 DECLARATION

I hereby declare the following:

- This project is my original work except quotations and summaries which is cited to the
references.
- It was not submitted previously or being submitted currently to any other institution.
- Agree to keep this project report at the library of University of Kufa, and allow the
library to make copies for educational purposes only or make full text access of the
digital copy available on the internet.
- All the materials in this project, including without limitation text, figures, photographs
and all other artwork, are copyright of University of Kufa.

Signature: ________________________

Name: ___________________________

Date: ____________________________

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 SUPERVISOR APPROVAL SHEET

I/We certify that this project (PROJECT NAME) was prepared under my supervision
at Electrical Engineering Department / College of Engineering / University of Kufa as a partial
fulfillment of the requirements for B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering.

Members of the Project Supervisory Committee were as follows:

Name of Chairperson Supervisor: ____________________________________

Date:

Name of Co-Supervisor: ___________________________________________

Date:

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 EXAMINERS APPROVAL SHEET

We certify that we have read this project report entitled (PROJECT NAME) which was
prepared by (STUDENT NAME) as examination committee, and according to the standard of
a project for B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. Based on his/her/their defense of the contents of
his/her/their project, we recommend that the student/students graduation project to be accepted
as part of the fulfillment of a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering.

Members of the Project Examination Committee were as follows:

Name of Chairperson ____________________________________

Date:

Name of Examiner ____________________________________

Date:

_________________________________

Name of Head of Electrical Engineering Department

University of Kufa

Date:

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

ABSTRACT ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii

DECLARATION iv

APPROVAL SHEETS v

TABLE OF CONTENTS vi

LIST OF FIGURES vii

LIST OF TABLES xi

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xii

CHAPTER ONE / INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Sub-heading 1 2

1.1.1 Sub-subheading1 3

CHAPTER TWO / LITERATURE REVIEW 10

2.1 Sub-heading 1 11

2.1.1 Sub-subheading1 13

REFERENCES 60

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 LIST OF FIGURES

No. Descriptions Page

1.1 Description of Figure 1.1 10
1.2 Description of Figure 1.2 11
1.3 Description of Figure 1.3 13

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 LIST OF TABLES

No. Descriptions Page

1.1 Description of Table 1.1 13
1.2 Description of Table 1.2 15
2.1 Description of Table 2.1 20

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 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request

AWGN Additive white Gaussian noise
BCH Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem
BER Bit Error Rate
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

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 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

It consists of a brief of the subject and the importance of the project. In “introduction
chapter”, you should present any gap of knowledge you are dealing with and the problem
statement. The motivations and objectives should also be presented. Additionally, the scope of
work and project structure should be covered in the introduction.

1.2 Problem Statements

For each research, there should be an existing problem which the project aims to present
and solve. In this section, problem statements should be presented, showing any gap of
knowledge that the project would potentially be covering. A brief of literature review should
be introduced here presenting the current related works with achievements and limitations.

1.3 Motivations

State the motivations behind choosing this subject, such as the significance of the study
or topic novelty…etc.

1.4 Objectives

What is the achievements that you intend to obtain in your project and what is the results
that should be reached? Such as the following examples:

1- To investigate the existing channel coding techniques used in UFMC systems in order to
highlight the weakness points.

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2- To design a novel ABC code with high error correction ability that differs from familiar
channel coding techniques that used an outer code with an inner code then appended by an
interleaver.

3- To evaluate the UFMC system's performance over multi-path fading channel by comparing
it with the conventional OFDM system for both BPSK and QPSK modulation schemes in terms
of BER performance, OOBE, and PAPR.

1.5 Scope of Study

State the scope of your work here.

1.6 Project Organization

This project comprises four chapters, starting from the introduction in Chapter 1
explaining the background of UFMC systems with presentation of the problem statements,
motivations, objectives and scope of the project. The rest of the chapters are introduced as
follows:. ………

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 CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

In this chapter, the story of the current similar works should be presented here to show
the weak and strong points of the existing literature. This chapter considers the base of your
work, because here you will discuss the current works that explain the problem or the gap of
knowledge which you will be dealing with in this project. In this chapter you should not present
your work.

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 CHAPTER THREE

PROJECT METHODOLOGY

This chapter is dedicated for your own work. Here, you should present the block
diagram that encompass your work, as shown in Figure 1, and the parameters used as in Table
1.

Table 1: Simulation environment of an LTE system

PARAMETERS VALUES
Transmission Bandwidth 20MHz
Channel Multipath Fading Channel
Number of IFFT/FFT Points 2048
No. of Occupied Sub-carrier 1200
Cyclic Prefix Length 144
Modulation BPSK
Sampling Rate 30.72MHz

Modulation IFFT Cyclic Prefix

Input Data

Multipath Fading Channel

Cyclic Prefix Output

Demodulation BPSK
Removal FFT Data
or QPSK

Figure 1. OFDM Transceiver

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 CHAPTER FOUR

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter is dedicated to present the outcomes and achievements of the project. The
analysis of the results should be discussed and compared with other current results
(benchmarking). Tables, figures and draws may be included in this chapter to show where the
student’s project excels relative to other works results.

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 CONCLUSION

This guidance handbook explains general requirements and formatting of writing the
graduation project report at Electrical Engineering Department / University of Kufa. All
specifications and requirements needed by the students in order to write the bachelor project
report are included. The project conclusion should not exceed 250 words and should include
the project achievements with the limitations and the suggested future works. The conclusion
should be different from the abstract. The results in the abstract may be mentioned as a general
brief. While in the conclusion, the results should be concentrated as a collection of the work
outcomes, with better organization and presentation accompanied by analysis that lead to the
final findings of this project.

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 REFERENCES

All information in this project should be cited except your words or conclusions. All
citations should appear in the text using numbers such as [1] or [1,2] …..etc. The accepted style
of citation is the IEEE style.

Samples of references: -

 Article in Journal
[1] C. Berrou, and A. Glavieux," Near optimum error correcting coding and decoding: Turbo
Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 44, no.10, pp. 1261-1271, Oct. 1996.
 Letters
[2] A. Suls, J. Neckebroek, Y. Lefevre, M. Guenach and M. Moeneclaey, "Semi-Analytical
Evaluation of Concatenated RS/LDPC Coding Performance with Finite Block
Interleaving," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1237-1240, June 2017, doi:
10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2675404.
 Conference papers
[3] M. Prashanthi, D. Paradhasaradhi and N. Vivek, "An advanced low complexity double error

correction of an BCH decoder," 2014 International Conference on Green Computing

Communication and Electrical Engineering (ICGCCEE), Coimbatore, 2014, pp. 1-4, doi:
10.1109/ICGCCEE.2014.6922218.
 Books
[4] J. C. Moreira, P. G. Farrell, Essentials of Error-Control Coding, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
2006, ISBN-13 978-0-470-02920-6 (HB).

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 APPENDIX

This section is dedicated to any appendices such as codes, software and any other rules
which is not included in the project. In this guideline handbook, a group of important forms
such as (PF1) supervisor selection form, (PF2) supervisor change form and (PF3) project
submission form have been presented.

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