Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
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BCA Final Year Project
Completion, Submission and Examination Guidelines.
How to begin a project work:
Attend the contact session organized by respective Study Center
Form a group of 2 students
Take recommendation letter from the coordinator of the Study Center
Visit industry, an office or any suitable organization where IT related activities are
being carried out.
Discuss with External Guide (Industry person) and identify a project topic
Choose and Internal Guide
Discuss the matter with internal guide
Review the literature
Prepare the project proposal
Submit project proposal to the internal guide for approval
Writing a project proposal:
Project proposal should be clearly and concisely written (not more than 4 printed
pages)
The proposal should demonstrate student’s understanding of the proposed project
Title of the project
Names of students in a group, Internal and External Guides
Introduction and background
Problem statement
Project description (preliminary design and methodology)
Software platform (operating system, software packages and languages)
Hardware platform (computer systems and other peripherals and devices)
Tentative schedule
References
Project Completion Process:
Student should submit project synopsis along with names of group members. Project
guide will be assigned to each group.
Faculty member should guide students on respective points only, and not to help them in
writing code, they should help students in the technical and design part only.
Students should first study project with details, show all relevant diagrams and
documentation to project guide. Student should prepare first FDD, CLD, ERD, DFD and
database design and get checked by respective internal faculty. Then only student can start
project coding.
There should be constant communication with project guide to discuss project status. On
completion of project a demo should be shown to project guide.
Two copies of final project report, one for the Vidyapeeth and another for each group
member should be submitted before the examination, other wise student will not be allowed to
appear for Viva.
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
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Incomplete project will not be evaluated and students won’t be allowed for appearing the
viva.
Unbound & loose sheets, unacknowledged copies will not be accepted and no viva will
be conducted for such students.
Non-compliance to any of the above rules won’t be allowed for appearing the viva.
Late submission of the synopsis and report shall not be accepted. Only in situation
beyond control, concession may be granted only by request from center / college in-charge.
Project Report Format:
First page: Project Title along with the name of student/s, center, college name and
Vidyapeeth name, the same will appear on binding pad. (Sample Enclosed)
Second Page: Certificate is towards partial completion of the course on his/her name or name of
the group members. (Sample Enclosed)
Third Page: Acknowledgement. (Sample Enclosed)
Forth Page: Project synopsis. (Only one page, containing technical details)
Index: Should contain the name of the topic along with sub topics and page nos.
Paper Size: A4 Size, Normal Paper, 1-inch spacing on all side.
Text Format: Font – Times New Roman (12), Topic Heading can be bold / underline only, Style
– Normal, Paragraph – Indented, Line Spacing – 1.5, Alignment – Justified.
Illustrations: Figures, Flow Chart, Diagram, DFD, Screens should have name and number.
Project contents: Project; should begin with introduction and include detailed project
coverage of the work.
No of pages: Minimum 80 and Maximum 150.
Third last page: Future scope, limitations or boundaries
Second last page: Conclusion & Developers comment
Last page: References & Bibliography
Binding: Book Binding / Spiral Binding / Hard Bound
Submission Date: 15 days of before the semester examination.
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
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For Center Coordinator:
Student/s: Individual or group 2 students.
Project Guide: Any one-faculty member.
Signature: Head of the Department (HOD) / For HOD (respective center head) &
Examiner & Project Guide
Examiners: External: Experience faculty/expert appointed by vidyapeeth.
Internal: One faculty member (Project Guide).
Viva Date: As per schedule. (1 or 2 week after the written & practical examination.)
Examination Center: Only at TMV, Pune.
Project Area and related Tools:
Application Area: Financial / Database Management System / Intranet / Computer Graphics /
Manufacturing / Inventory / Insurance / ERP / Network –
Communication / Device Drivers / Web Application / Web-Sites etc.
Operating System: Win 2K / Win NT / Win 98 / UNIX / Linux
Languages: C / C++ / Java / VB 6 / [Link] / C# / VC++ / XML / ASP etc
RDBMS: Oracle / SQL Server 2K / Access 2000
NOTE: Don’t include the code in project report.
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
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Use following format for First Page and for Binding Pad.
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A PROJECT REPORT
ON
<Type Project Name>
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By
<Student 1>
<Student 2>
<Student 3>
<Student 4>
Towards The Partial Fulfillment of the
Bachelor of Computer Applications
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Yash Infotech
Mumbai
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
2014-15
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Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
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Use following format for certificate.
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the project
“Name of the project”
Has been satisfactorily completed by
<Student 1>
<Student 2>
<Student 3>
<Student 4>
Towards The Partial Fulfillment of the ‘Bachelor of Computer Application’,
For the Academic Year 2014-15 at Yash Infotech Center,
Mumbai,
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune (Faculty of Distance Education),
And it is approved.
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Project Guide Examiner Head of Department
Yash Infotech-Mumbai
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
Faculty of Distance Education
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Use following format for Acknowledgement.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
With immense please we are presenting “Name of the project” Project report as part of
the curriculum of ‘Bachelor of Computer Applications’. We wish to thank all the people who
gave us unending support.
we express our profound thanks to our head of department Mr. Sharad Chavan, project
guide [Link] Sangre and project incharge Mrs. Tejasvi Kanade and all those who have
indirectly guided and helped us in preparation of this project.
<Student 1>
<Student 2>
<Student 3>
<Student 4>
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Note:
1. Student can decorate above three pages boarder with any line-style of their choice.
2. Every Page except first four pages contain Header as [Project Name] center aligned and
footer will contain [YYYY-YYYY] left aligned & [Page No.] on right aligned.
3. One-side printout only.