FYP 

II TECHNICAL REPORT EVALUATION RUBRICS ( MARCH 2022 - JULY 2022)

Panel - Technical Report (25 %)

Portion
PO Performance Criteria Weak (0-2) Marginal (3-4) Acceptable (5-6) Good (7-8) Excellent (9-10)
(%)
Objectives, scopes and
PO4 - Investigation , WP(Complex engineering problem) -WK8
problem statements

• Not able/very poorly • Effectively and critically

conduct the conduct the investigation
• Poorly conduct the
investigation; and provide specific,
investigation; • Adequately conduct • Able to critically
research statements significant research
Critically investigate the research statements the investigation and conduct the
is too broad, or the statements by
problem in the project barely establish the reasonably identify investigation and
description fails to connecting to the
using research-based importance of the relevant research identify relevant
PO4 establish the research problems to the
knowledge and research problem areathus . statements and research statements
(CO2) 3% importance of the literature, using the
methods to identify The connections of connections and connections with
C6 problem area. The research-based
research gaps hence problem statements to established with the the literature, using
connections of knowledge and research
establish projects’ the literature, research- literature.By using the the research-based
problem statements to methods.
objectives within the based knowledge and research-based knowledge and
the literature, research- • Excellently establish
scope of study and research methods are knowledge and research
based knowledge and objectives and scopes as
answer problem slightly clear thus research methods methods,thus
research methods are well as present clearly
statements. establish vague objectives and scopes objectives and scopes
not clear, debatable, and reasonable
objectives and are established. are clearly defined.
or insignificant thus explanation of
scopes.
fail to establish assumptions, limitations
objectives and scopes and problem statements.

Portion
PO Performance Criteria Weak (0-2) Marginal (3-4) Acceptable (5-6) Good (7-8) Excellent (9-10)
(%)

Literature Review PO4 - Investigation , WP(Complex engineering problem) -WK8

• Able but at minimum

• Unable/Weak to • Satisfactorily able to • Able to critically • Excellently investigate,
effort to investigate,
investigate, review, investigate, review, investigate, review, review, explain,
Able to report review, explain,
explain, compares, explain, compares, explain, compares, compares and
investigation and compares, critique the
critique the referred critique the referred critique the referred scientifically critique the
develop literature review referred
literature/research literature/research literature/research referred
related to the project by literature/research
papers and relate the papers and relate the papers and relate the literature/research
using research-based papers and relate the
impact of the past impact of the past impact of the past papers and critically
knowledge and research impact of the past
researches to present researches to present researches to present relate the impact of the
methods to conduct researches to present
project towards project towards project towards past researches to
PO4 investigation and project towards
solving the research solving the research solving the research present project towards
(CO2) 3% perform research solving the research
problems. (0 - 5 problems. (11 - 20 problems. (21 - 29 solving the research
C6 activities problems. (6 - 10
references) references) references) problems. (30 and more
references)
references)

• Fail to report • Show minimum • Satisfactorily report

• Critically report good
extensive numbers of effort to report small average numbers of • Critically report
Literature critique based numbers of related
related and recent numbers of related related and recent extensive numbers of
project journal and recent journal journal
and recent journal
related and recent journal
Able to report extensive papers/research (0 - papers/research (40-
papers/research (16 - papers/research (30- papers/research (>50
numbers of current 50 references) and
15 references) and 29 references) and 39 references) and references) and develop
journal papers for develop good
unable to develop develop basic develop sufficient detailed literature review
reviewing related area of literature review literature review
literature review literature review relating all areas in
project scope. relating all areas in
relating all areas in relating all areas in relating all areas in project.
project.
project. project. project.

Portion
PO Performance Criteria Weak (0-2) Marginal (3-4) Acceptable (5-6) Good (7-8) Excellent (9-10)
(%)

Project Methodology PO5 - Modern tool usage , WP(Complex engineering problem) -WK6

• Unable to provide • Able to provide basic

• Able to provide • Able to provide good
statement of research statement of research • Able to provide accurate
adequate statement of descriptive scientific
methods, select and methods, select and and descriptive scientific
research methods, statement of research
apply appropriate apply appropriate statement of research
select and apply methods, techniques,
techniques, materials, techniques, materials, methods, techniques,
techniques, materials, materials, processes,
processes, software, processes, software, materials, processes,
processes, software, software, instruments,
instruments, instruments, software, instruments,
instruments, machinery and
machinery and machinery and machinery and
machinery and procedures as a
procedures as a procedures as a procedures as a problem-
procedures as a problem-solving
problem-solving problem-solving solving approach.
Able to identify, learn, problem-solving approach.
PO5 approach. approach.
select and apply approach.
(CO3) appropriate techniques,
P4 resources, and modern
engineering and IT tools • Unable to present • Able to present some • Able to present
• Able to present good • Able to present
to perform the project in chronological, of methodology in satisfactory
chronological, procedures that are
proper methodology. working and working and chronological,
working and chronological, replicable,
replicable procedures replicable procedures working and
replicable procedures rigorous, manageable
and strategies for data and strategies for data replicable procedures
and strategies for data and coherent for
generation and generation and and strategies for data
generation and generating valid and
4% validation using the validation using the generation and
validation using the reliable data by using the
modern engineering modern engineering validation using the
modern engineering most effective modern
machinery, machinery, modern engineering
machinery, equipment engineering machinery,
equipment, equipment, machinery, equipment
instruments, software equipment, instruments,
instruments, software instruments, software instruments, software
and IT tools. software and IT tools.
and IT tools. and IT tools. and IT tools.
 Literature critique based
project • Unable to identify • Able to identify and • Able to identify and
to identify, learn, select and extract • Able to identify and extract sufficient extract good
and apply appropriate • Able to present detailed
chronological, extract basic working chronological, chronological,
techniques, resources, chronological, working
working and and replicable data/ working and working and
and modern engineering and replicable data/
replicable data/ procedures/strategies/ replicable data/ replicable data/
PO5 and IT tools to identify procedures/
procedures/strategies/ analysis tools and use procedures/strategies/ procedures/strategies/
(CO3) and extract information strategies/analysis tools
analysis tools and use of modern engineering analysis tools and use analysis tools and use
P4 in and use of modern
of modern engineering machinery, of modern engineering of modern engineering
references/journals/litera engineering machinery,
machinery, equipment, machinery, machinery,
tures which the research equipment, instruments,
equipment, instruments, software equipment, equipment,
was carried out in each software and IT tools.
instruments, software and IT tools. instruments, software instruments, software
area related to project and IT tools. and IT tools. and IT tools.
and why that method
was chosen.

Portion
PO Performance Criteria Weak (0-2) Marginal (3-4) Acceptable (5-6) Good (7-8) Excellent (9-10)
(%)

Project result analysis PO5 - Modern tool usage , WP(Complex engineering problem) -WK6

• Able to organize and

• Unable to organize
• Able to organize but analyze gathered • Show good effort to
and analyze gathered • Excel in organize and
poorly analyze information or data, organize and analyze
information or data analyze gathered
gathered information but does not clearly gathered information
and fails to describe information, data and
or data and fails to describe the factors or data, clearly
the factors and results including clearly
describe the factors and limitations that describe the factors
limitations that describe the factors and
Able to organize, and limitations that influenced the and limitations that
influence the research limitations that
interpret, analyze and influence the research research problem. influenced the
problem. influenced the research
present the results with problem. • Able to interpret, research problem.
• Unable/very poorly problem.
the use of modern • Poorly interpret, present and explain • Able to interpret,
interpret, present and • Able to clearly interpret,
engineering and IT tools present and explain (but not always clear present and explain
explain the result present and explain
PO5 usage the result because of and concise) the the results from
because no results with excellent
(CO3) 6% minimum IT/software results from figures, figures, diagrams
IT/software figures, diagrams and/or
P4 applications are used diagrams and/or and/or tables due to
applications are used tables due to the use of
to show the results tables due to use of use of any modern
to show the results most effective modern
obtained in any modern engineering and IT
obtained in engineering and IT tools.
figure/diagrams/table. engineering and IT tools.
figure/diagrams/table.
tools.

Literature critique based • Successfully

• Able to tabulate • Able to tabulate
project • Unable to tabulate
information into information into
tabulate information • Excellently tabulate
Able to tabulate information into into related area of information into related
related area of interest related area of interest
information and results related area of interest interest in area of interest in
in project/parameters in project/parameters
in referred journal in project/parameters project/parameters project/parameters
project but with project but with
papers according to project with use of project but with good project by full usage of
minimum use of moderate use of
area/parameters of related modern IT usage of related related modern IT
related modern IT related modern IT
project with use of tools/software modern IT tools/software
tools/software tools/software
modern IT tools/software tools/software
 Discussion, suggestion
and conclusion
• Unable to discuss
the results that meets
the specified needs
with appropriate
consideration for
public health and
safety, ethical,
cultural, societal and
environmental
Able to discuss,
considerations (if any)
reasoning, suggest and due to shallow
conclude based on
sources of literature
contextual knowledge to review.
assess impact towards
societal/ health/
safety/legal/cultural
issues and the
consequent • Did
responsibilities relevant not/unconvincingly
to professional address the
engineering practice. suggestion for further
improvements and
future research works
with no or unclear
relevant to
professional
PO6 engineering practice.
(CO4) 5% • Did not conclude the
A4 projects’ achievement
and relevancy to
professional
engineering practice.
• Article’s relevance is
none; analysis of
author(s)’ argument is
missing; no support
for literatures’
evaluation; missing
analysis of
Literature critique based methodology and
project results.
Able to critique of article
argument/findings and • Missing any
able to fit information about how
arguments/discussion literatures findings fits
with area of interest in related to each other’s
project in regards to (i.e., supports,
societal/ health/ contradicts, provides
safety/legal/cultural a different perspective
issues and relevant to or methodology)
professional engineering
practice
• Fail to relate findings
to students projects
and recommend
expected
parameters/data/
procedure.
PO6 - Engineer and society, WP(Complex engineering problem) -WK7
• Show shallow • Able to moderately
• Able to critically
discussion and discuss the results. • Able to critically
discuss the results
suggestions were The discussions, discuss the results. The
and make suggestions
minimally suggestions and discussions, suggestions
and conclusions that
explained/did not meet conclusions are and conclusions are
meets the specified
the specified needs partially meet the effectively meet the
needs with
with appropriate specified needs with specified needs with
appropriate
consideration for appropriate appropriate
consideration for
public health and consideration for consideration for public
public health and
safety, ethical, public health and health and safety, ethical,
safety, ethical,
cultural, societal and safety, ethical, cultural, societal and
cultural, societal and
environmental cultural, societal and environmental
environmental
considerations (if any) environmental considerations (if any)
considerations (if any)
due to minimum considerations (if any) due to comprehensive
due to sufficient
sources of literature due to moderate sources of literature
sources of literature
review. number of literature review.
review.
review sources.
• Address the basic • Reasonably address • Successfully • Convincingly address
suggestion for further the suggestion for address the the suggestion for further
improvements and further improvements suggestion for further improvements and future
future research works and future research improvements and research works relevant
with no or unclear works relevant to future research works to professional
relevant to professional relevant to engineering practice.
professional engineering practice. professional • Excellently conclude the
engineering practice. • Moderately conclude engineering practice. projects’ achievement
• Weakly conclude the the projects’ • Conclude the and findings relevant to
projects’ achievement achievement and projects’ achievement professional engineering
and relevancy to relevancy to and relevancy to practice.
professional professional professional
engineering practice. engineering practice. engineering practice.
• Article’s relevance is • Article’s relevance is • Article’s relevance is • Article’s relevance is
vaguely clear; sufficient; analysis of good; analysis of very clear; analysis of
analysis of author(s)’ author(s)’ argument is author(s)’ argument is author(s)’ argument is
argument barely visible; visible support visible; visible support reported in detail;
visible ; minimum for literatures’ for literatures’ Detailed support for
support for literatures’ evaluation, analysis of evaluation, analysis of literatures’
evaluation and methodology and methodology and evaluation,analysis of
minimum analysis of results. results. methodology and results.
methodology and
results
• Basic effort to report • Satisfactorily report • Good effort to report • Detailed explanation on
information about how information about how information about how any information about
literatures findings fits literatures findings fits literatures findings fits how literatures findings
related to each other’s related to each other’s related to each other’s fits related to each
(i.e., supports, (i.e., supports, (i.e., supports, other’s (i.e., supports,
contradicts, provides contradicts, provides contradicts, provides contradicts, provides a
a different perspective a different perspective a different perspective different perspective or
or methodology) or methodology) or methodology) methodology)
• Minimum effort to • Able to moderately • Able to successfully • Excellently relate
relate findings to relate findings to relate findings to findings to students
students projects and students projects and students projects and projects and recommend
recommend expected recommend expected recommend expected expected
parameters/data/ parameters/data/proce parameters/data/proce parameters/data/procedu
procedure. dure. dure. re.
 Portion
PO Performance Criteria Weak (0-2) Marginal (3-4) Acceptable (5-6) Good (7-8) Excellent (9-10)
(%)

Report delivery PO10 - Communication , EA

• Able to present fairly

organized report and • Able to present
• Unable to present • Present organized • Able to present good
follow the standard excellently organized and
organized report and report minimally and organized report and
format, but in some effectively written report
to follow the standard follow the standard follow the standard
areas, it is difficult to according to the standard
format. format. format.
understand the flow of format.
topics.
• Unable to coherently • Minimum effort to • Able to report • Able to coherently • Able to excellently
report research report research research activities and report research report all the research
activities and findings activities and findings findings with the activities and findings activities and findings
with the underlying with the underlying underlying logic. All with the underlying with the underlying logic
logic. The reader has logic. The reader has the research activities logic. All the research and easy-to-follow
to make great effort to to make considerable and findings are fairly activities and findings writing structures.
Able to deliver effective understand the effort to understand written with are fairly written with
report and design underlying logic and the underlying logic underlying logic but underlying logic.
documentations to show the flow of ideas. and the flow of ideas required minor
PO10 that students could thus required major improvements.
(CO5) 2% comprehend and improvements.
A4 communicate effectively
on research activities • Choose • Choose appropriate
• Choose appropriate • Choose correct • Choose appropriate and
with the engineering inappropriate words words and make many
words that express words that express precise words to express
community (supervisors, and make many spelling and the intended meaning the intended meaning the intended meaning
external examiners) and spelling and grammatical errors in
and support reader and support reader and support reader
with society at large. grammatical errors in the sentences, thus
comprehension. comprehension. comprehension.
the sentences, thus the engineering However, some However, some Sentences are free from
the engineering community have to
sentences have sentences have spelling and grammatical
community have to make effort to spelling and spelling and errors.
make effort to understand the report.
grammatically errors grammatically errors
understand the report. that impede the flow that is minor.
f i ti
• Unable to present • Minimum effort to • Able to moderately • Able to successfully • Able to excellently
and communicate with present and present and present and present and
the logic of the communicate with the communicate the logic communicate the logic communicate with the
evidence from the logic of the evidence of the evidence from of the evidence from evidenced logic from the
literature. from the literature. the literature. the literature. literature, which
enhances the
clarification of the
findings.

Portion
PO Performance Criteria Weak (0-2) Marginal (3-4) Acceptable (5-6) Good (7-8) Excellent (9-10)
(%)
Report format & writing PO10 - Communication , EA
skills
71% - 100% in 51% - 70% in 31% - 50% in 11% - 30% in 0% - 10% in plagiarism
plagiarism report plagiarism report plagiarism report plagiarism report report

• Moderately organize
• Unable to organize • Able to organize
each chapter and • Excellently organize
each chapter and each chapter and • Excellently organize
adequately write the each chapter and
Able to write the inadequately write the write the report with each chapter and
report according to accurately write
report/document report without minimum compliance accurately write
PO10 the standard format according to the
according to required complying to standard to standard format according to the standard
(CO5) 2% due to sufficient standard IEEE format,
format with good writing format (IEEE), (IEEE), showing IEEE format, showing
A4 knowledge on IEEE showing excellent
skills, reflecting that the showing minimum minimum writing excellent writing skills
format, thus shows writing skills
students could writing skills. skills.
fair writing skills.
comprehend, relate and
organize effectively all • Very poor • Poor communication • Adequately show • Show good • Effectively show
the research activities. communication as as each topic/sub- communication as communication as excellent communication
each topic/sub-topic topic of research continuity of each continuity of each as continuity of each
of research activities activities are topic/sub-topic of topic/sub-topic of topic/sub-topic of
are not connected to minimally connected research activities are research activities are research activities are
each other. to each other. shown. relatively shown. clearly shown.