TITLE OF THESIS REPORT

(First page inside binding)

Authors/Submitted By
Name of Students
(Registration Number)
Project Supervisor
_______________
Name of Supervisor

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
TAXILA
January, 2012
Note: Do NOT use prefixes Sir or Mr. with supervisor name. Either
write Engr. or Prof. Dr. as per according the rank of your supervisor.

FORMAT FOR YOUR REPORT:

Your report should follow the guidelines mentioned below or it will be summarily
rejected.
All the paragraph text should be in font: Times New Roman, Bold: false,
Case: sentence case, Size: 12, line spacing: normal, Align: Justify
Main heading such as ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION should be in font:
Arial, Bold: true, Case: Upper case, Size: 18, Align: left
Sub heading such as Statement of the problem, Objectives should be in
font: Arial, Bold: false, Case: Title case, Size: 14, Align: left
Entire Report should be in font: Times New Roman.
The page number of the Abstract, Undertaking Acknowledgement, Table
of contents, List of figures/tables and Abbreviations must be in Roman
numerals.
All other pages must be assigned a running Arabic number starting from 1.
However, a page number should not appear on the title page.
The references must be arranged in the order of their appearance.
The appendices should be used for detailed supplementary documentation
that is inappropriate if inserted in the body of report e.g. datasheets,
systems manual etc.
Do not include irrelevant details in Thesis Report just to make report
lengthy.
Be precise and to the point
Do not include hard copy of code of your project in report; rather provide
soft copy of code + thesis report + presentation on a CD. (For 8th term)
Note about Binding: (For 8th Term)
Three bound copies of the thesis report are to be submitted for
examination. Hard bound means permanently stitched and bound in
BLACK cover with the title of the dissertation and your name clearly
inscribed on the cover as per format given at the binding page of format in
GOLDEN color.

ABSTRACT

Write abstract from here. This page consists of an abstract of the report of not
more than 250 words outlining the project. Brief explanation of what you have
done in the project. The abstract should be comprehensible to readers of the report
and enable them to judge the reports potential interest. The font of the entire
document is Times New Roman size 12, regular, justified. The length of the
abstract should be of 15-20 sentences at the most. It should include summary of
what you have done overall.

Should not contain any implementation details, and in-depth technical

details.
Should not contain details like demerits/disadvantages, limitations etc.
Should not contain the details of hardware/software used.

UNDERTAKING

Use the following undertaking as it is.

I certify that research work titled enter title of your thesis report here is my own
work. The work has not, in whole or in part, been presented elsewhere for
assessment. Where material has been used from other sources it has been properly
acknowledged/ referred.

Signature of Student
Name of Students (Reg #)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Write acknowledgment here. Here students should acknowledge their internal

supervisor (External supervisor, if any) and help given by technical staff and
others as appropriate. Use Times New Roman 12, Italic, justified.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Note: Below is a sample of Table of contents. You may exclude above contents or
include any further details according to your research. Please generate a Table of
content; dont create it manually:
Abstract................................................................................................................................i
UNdertaking........................................................................................................................ii
Acknowledgements............................................................................................................iii
Table of Contents................................................................................................................iv
List of figures.......................................................................................................................v
List of tables.......................................................................................................................vi
Abbreviations....................................................................................................................vii
Chapter 1:............................................................................................................................8
Problem Statement............................................................................................................8
Aims & Objectives...........................................................................................................8
Background.......................................................................................................................8
1.3.1 Subheading 1.......................................................................................................8
1.3.2 Subheading 2.......................................................................................................8
Deliverables......................................................................................................................8
Tools used.........................................................................................................................8
Organization of Thesis.....................................................................................................8
Chapter 2.............................................................................................................................9
2.1 Figure Style................................................................................................................9
2.2 Table Style..................................................................................................................9
2.3 Equations Style...........................................................................................................9
Chapter 3...........................................................................................................................10
Chapter 4...........................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK................................................................................12
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................13
Appendices.........................................................................................................................14
GLOSSARY.......................................................................................................................15

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LIST OF FIGURES

All figures should be referred in text. Sample is given below:

Number

Page

LIST OF TABLES

Similar to the list of figures

vi

ABBREVIATIONS

List all the acronyms that you have used inside your report. The list should be
alphabetically sorted. Sample is given below:
BoUGS: Board of Under Graduate Studies
CED: Computer Engineering Department
UET: University of Engineering and Technology

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Chapter xyz

CHAPTER 1:

Introduction
Project introduction in details - Should focus on core concept of the project. Why this project was
needed and what was problem in the existing work

Problem Statement
Aims & Objectives
Background
1.3.1 Subheading 1
1.3.2 Subheading 2

Deliverables
Tools used
Organization of Thesis

Thesis Title

Chapter xyz

CHAPTER 2

Literature Review
Must contain all the work done so far in the field. Containing Research papers, book material etc.

2.1 Figure Style

All figures should be centrally aligned with captions at bottom of figure.

Fig 2. 1: Autumn in Osaka

2.2 Table Style

All tables should be centrally aligned with captions at the top as sample given below:
Table 2. 1: xyz

2.3 Equations Style

Use Microsoft Word Equation Editor for equations rather than copying pasting equations.
Sample is given below:
V = IR

Thesis Title

(2.1)

Chapter xyz

CHAPTER 3

Methodology
It contains algorithms and technical details of the project. It must cover all the aspects of the thesis.
Must have some Mathematical or algorithmic model.

Thesis Title

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Chapter xyz

CHAPTER 4

Hardware Implementations/Software Simulations

How the mathematical/algorithmic model given in methodology chapter is implemented in
Software/hardware or Simulated. It can also have flow charts, ASMs to elaborate the details. It can
have graphs/ Screen Shoots of the results, Packet Traces, Images etc. It is also important to discuss the
scenario in which the experiment was conducted including the assumptions made during this process
and data set taken.

Thesis Title

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Chapter xyz

CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK

Explain what you have done with your objectives. Extensions or enhancements that can be done in
future. Maximum of 1 page

Thesis Title

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Chapter xyz

REFERENCES
A list of all books, report, papers, etc., referred to in the report or consult during the course of the
project should be given under the References.

In the references there are no spaces between the authors initials.

References should be typed 4 spaces below the heading REFERENCES left justified .
The date/year might come after the name of author or it might come at the end of all details.
Any references included in the list must be cited in the text at appropriate place.

Author 1, Author 2 and Author 3, Title, Publisher/Journal Name and so on

1.

E.g. when referencing an article in a journal:

A.M. Waxman, J.J. LeMoigne,A visual navigation system for autonomous land vehichles,
IEEE J. Robotics and Automation, vol.RA-3,pp.124-141, April 1987.

2. E.g. when referencing a publication of a conference:

Juping Yang, Sumei Guo, Tameiharu Hasegawa,Roadway matching technique from
perspective image, Asian Conference on computer vision,Sinapore,Dec.5-8,1995.
3. E.g. when referencing an article in a book:
R.C.Gonzalez, P.Wintz,Digital Image Processing Second Edition, Addision-Wesley
Publishing Company,1987
4. any WebSites

Thesis Title

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APPENDICES

Information of secondary importance (and information whose inclusion would break the flow of the
report) should be placed in Appendices. These include program listing, electronic data sheets, data
dictionary etc. The professional way to do it is to put all back ground portion in the annex and only
relevant parts of project are included in the thesis.

Thesis Title

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GLOSSARY

Thesis Title

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