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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL
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FAQs
IDP/UDPs/Research Projects in the curricula is to make sure that students do some
innovative work, which can be related to the product / process within/ outside the industry. Or
the IDP/UDPs/Research Projects may be based on some unsolved problems of the society.
Notes: 1.Innovative work can be defined as attempting different things in different ways and
making a difference.
2. A Final year student at GTU may work on one of the two types of projects, as a part of the
requirements for the Degree/Diploma. The two types are IDPs or UDPs.
3. Both IDPs and UDPs will follow similar procedures (protocols) and in both the cases the
authenticity of the project is to be verified by the internal project guide.
4. The Project may be done at either the College or at the industry according to the inputs from
the internal guide.
• Industry Defined Projects (IDP): is a project, which is designed to improve ( either a product
or a process in either forms/features/functions based on a real life challenge from an
industry. Dedicated hours have been allotted every week for all branches for interaction
with industries and for working on the IDP/UDP. The term depicts that the projects is to be
anchored upon an industrial use and it is to be done under the guidance of both an internal
guide at the College and anexternalmentor from the industry. However whether the
definition is appropriate for a Final Year project is to be decided by the faculty onlyand its
related issues will be binding to the students group.
• User Defined Projects (UDP): is a project based upon the needs of an. NGOs, informal
sectors, Govt. organizations and society at large). Alternatively the UDP can be on a
research problem identified by the faculties. Or it could be the idea of student himself.
• Guides: A facultiy from the educational Institution of the student will be the guide for the
project. The industry persons or any other experts can mentor the projects. (For some
projects, multiple guides can be taken.) During the final project examinations, the projects
are evaluated by a group of two examiners consisting of an internal examiner and the
external examiner appointed by the University. However for a project, based on an IDP, the
Principal/Director of the educational institution should invite the Industry mentor/guide to
join the group of examiners for evaluation of the project, as the 3rd examiner.
• The final year project is divided into two semesters (7th & 8th) .
Note: For IT projects, if a student is able to complete the project work during the
first semester, he/ she may apply to the HOD for permission to take an additional
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project during the second semester. (The guides/HOD/students have to check the
progress and in suitable cases only a new project is to be allowed with a record
keeping at corresponding department)
• Generally, students will be expected to complete one third of the total work expected from
the Project Definition, during the 7th Semester. The remaining two third work will have to be
completed before the end of 8th Semester. However if the Project Definition given at 7th
Semester, requires less work to be done, then a new definition, requiring proportionate
work corresponding to the time and credits allotted at the 8th Semester, will be given to the
students, during the start of 8th Semester.
• A student may take either IDP or UDP. However the proposal for the Final Year project will
have to be submitted in the required format.
• Kho-Kho model (relay) of projects can be allowed where a semi finished project done by the
previous year’s students, at a particular department, can be adopted by the students of the
next year.
• The number of students per group for a project has to be decided by the college/
department/ project guides. (In specific cases the guides may allow inter college projects
after mutual consent of both the Principals.)Team size should always depend on the size of
the projects and required man-hours to implement the defined work.
• Any student can go to any industry in or outside his Sankul for defining the IDPs. (25 GTU
Innovation Sankuls have been established across the State).
• The students can take inter-disciplinary projects during the final year after consultation with
the guide in his/ her department.
• The final year students may seek the help of Coordinator of the Udisha Club / Departmental
Coordinators for assignment to an appropriate industry or any help while doing the
IDPs/UDPs.
• The Principals/ Directors of the colleges are required to coordinate with Sankul Co-
Chairman (Academic) and Sankul Co-Chairman (Industry) and build relationships with
industries.
• 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.
• Those students who have already undergone the training or industrial visit can define a
project definition from the respective industries, based on the training or industrial visit.
Where ever feasible the students have to demonstrate a proof of prototypes/working
model during the final examinations. Each team has to keep all their progress documented
while working on the project.
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Guidelines as Suggested by the Council of Deans
The students are supposed to scout for the IDP/ UDPs before commencement of the
first semester of the final academic year. The student will take review inputs from the faculty
member, who is/are to be his/her/their Guide for the project and submit /present a
presentation in power-point and document, in then format of
(http://gtu.ac.in/udishapdf/IDPIndustryDe...roject.pdf) . (In case of a UDP, students have to fill
the user’s detail in place of the details of the industry) before 10th August 2012. (Team/individual
will submit a report on the problem/project to the HOD. The IDP/UDP is mandatory for all
branches.)
1. Each team has to present their IDPs/UDPs/Projects in front of their whole class and all
faculty members of the corresponding branch in the month of August 2012. Beginning from August,
till the end of the Semester, students group will have to start actual project work. Once again the
student group will be regularly visiting industry / meeting faculty guides as per time allotted in the
time table, and will submit weekly/biweekly ( as per college) progress reports to