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MANUAL FOR PREPARATION OF B.TECH / M.TECH DISSERTATION
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GENERAL:
The manual is intended to provide broad guidelines to the B.Tech / M.Tech. Student’s preparation of thesis. Thesis shall in an organized and scholarly fashion, an account of original research work of the research scholar leading to the discovery of new facts or techniques or correlation of facts already known (analytical, experimental, hardware oriented etc) and demonstrating a quality as to make a definite contribution to the advancement of knowledge and the research scholar’s ability to undertake sustained research and present the findings in an appropriate manner with actual accomplishments of the work plainly stated and honestly appraised.
SIZE OF THESIS:
The size of thesis should not exceed 50 to 70 Pages for B.Tech & 60 to100 Pages for M.Tech of typed matter reckoned from the first page of Chapter 1 to the last page of the Appendix.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
The scholar shall supply a typed copy of the manuscript to the guide for her/his purpose of approval. In the preparation of the manuscript, care should be taken to ensure that all textual matter is typewritten to the extent possible in the same format as may be required for the final thesis.
Hence some of the in formation required for the final typing of the thesis is included also in this section.
The headings of all items 2 to 12 listed in section 4 should be typed in capital letter without punctuation and centered 50mm below the top of the page. The text should commence 4 spaces below this heading. The page numbering for all items 1 to 8 should be done using lower case Roman numerals and the pages thereafter should be numbered using Arabic numerals.
List of Reference
Any work of other researchers, if used either directly or indirectly, the origin of the material thus referred to at appropriate places in the thesis should be indicated. A paper, a monograph or a book may be designed by the name of the first author followed by the year of publication, placed inside brackets at the appropriate places in the thesis should be indicated. A paper, a monograph or a book may be inside brackets at the appropriate place of reference. The citation may assume any one of the following forms.
Examples of citation
(i) An improved algorithm has been adopted in literature (Tsychiya 1980)
(ii) Jankins and Walts (1968) have dealt at length with this principle.
(iii) The problem of mechanical manupulators has been studied by Shin et al (1984) and certain limitions of the method used, had been pointed out by Shin et al (1984 a).
The listing should be typed 4 spaces below the heading “REFERENCES” in alphabetical order in single spacing left-justified. The reference material should be listed in the alphabetical order of the author. The name of the authors/authors should be immediately followed by the year and other details. A typical illustrative list given relates to the citation examples quoted above.