GTU Final Year Project Guidelines

=--> Students of Gujarat Technological University have to opt for a project during their last year..it is a complusive task that every student must undergo..here are the details which will help you if you are a GTU student..

• The final year project is divided into two semesters (7th & 8th), which should be based upon a real-life problem of an industry. 
• The objective of Industry Defined Project or User Defined Project: each team of students have to work on some real life issue which may be beneficial to Industry/Research organization/ Govt.Organization /socio-technical issues or any specific user after its development. Each student project must try to help the user’s need.
• If a faculty member, using his experience, gives a problem to a student for his/ her final year project, the student can use the problem to write the IDP/UDP. However the IDP/UDP proposal will have to be submitted in the required format.
• The students will scout for the Industry Defined Project (IDP) before commencement of the first semester of the final academic year (7th Sem). Within two weeks of commencement of academic session, the student will take review inputs from the faculty member, who is to be his Guide for the project. He will then submit a report on the problem to the HOD. The IDP/UDP is mandatory for all branches.
• The final year project will be designed to develop a better product or a better process.
• The number of students per group for a project has to be decided by the colleges/ Internal guides. Preferably maximum 4 students in a group will be appreciated.
• Any student can go to any industry in or outside his Sankul. (25 GTU Innovation Sankuls have been established across the State). Location of industry/user can be anywhere who provides the IDP/UDP.
• The students can take inter-disciplinary projects during the final year after consultation with the corresponding Guide at respective colleges.
• The pre-final year students may seek the help of Udisha Club Patrons / Co-ordinators for assignment to an appropriate industry.
• The pre-final year students have to contact the corresponding Udisha Club Members and Departmental Coordinators of their college for any necessary assistance for scouting IDP. The Principals of the colleges are required to coordinate with Sankul Co-Chairman (Academic) for any assistance. The Sankul Co-Chairmen of each Sankul may have established linked with the industry clusters in the region.
• The students can choose an industry not mentioned in the list provided for reference by GTU Innovation Council.
• The students have to mention the name of the industry / source of the industry defined project while submitting the project definition immediately after commencement of the academic session during the first semester of the Final Year. (In some cases, the industry may jointly mentor and evaluate the progress of the project during the academic year).
• GTU Innovation Council will award for the best 3000 (1000 each in degree Engineering, Dip Engg and Masters) problems/project definitions.
• Those students who have already undergone/undergoing the training or industrial visit can define a project definition from the respective industries, based on the training or industrial visit.

 Visit this link of GTU website for more description: http://www.gtu.ac.in/guidelinesfortheprojectIDP.asp