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School of Advanced Technology

MODULE HANDBOOK

SAT 301

Final Year Project

Semester 1&2

2024-2025

SECTION A: Basic Information

o Brief Introduction to the Module

The final year project (FYP)  is a two-semester long project delivered through the module SAT301 Final Year Project. It accounts for ten credits, which is the largest single module  currently and worth 25% of the total credits  available  for Year 4. Therefore, it is a major contributing component to the BEng final degree classification.

The FYP acts as a summative assessment of a student’s attainment in the Program Learning  Objectives,  i.e. how good you are as a XJTLU SAT graduate.  It is an opportunity fora student to integrate all the knowledge accumulated through the four years  of study. At the same time, the student  must  demonstrate his or her competencies  in joining  the  engineering professionals around the world; or demonstrate satisfactory research potentials to further their careers in research.

There are three assessment items for FYP including: 1) Interim Progress Report (25%)

2)  Project  Demonstration (15%) and 3) Final Thesis  (60%).  To achieve the most rewarding FYP experience,  the students are   advised   to  follow   strictly   the assessment/submission  schedule  detailed in the Module  Handbook, and check important organisational messages posted on LEARNING MALL with email notices. Regular meeting and effective communication with the supervisor are  particularly essential to a successful FYP project.

o Key Module Information

Module name: Final Year Project

Module code: SAT301

Credit value: 10

Semester in which the module is taught: S1 and S2

Pre-requisites needed for the module: n/a

Programmes on which the module is shared:

BEng Computer Science and Technology

BEng Digital Media Technology

BEng Electrical Engineering

BEng Electronic Science and Technology

BSc Information and Computing Science

BSc Information Management and Information Systems

BEng Mechatronics and Robotic Systems

BEng Telecommunications Engineering

o Delivery Schedule

No specific schedule.

o Module Leader and Contact Details

Name: Pengfei Song

Brief Biography:

Email address: [email protected]

Office telephone number: +86 (0)512 8818 9039

Room number and office hours: EE 318

Preferred means of contact: [email protected]

o Additional Teaching Staff and Contact Details

All SAT Academic Staff.

SECTION B: What you can expect from the module

o Educational Aims of the Module

To give students the opportunity to work in a guided  but  independent fashion to explore a substantial problem in depth, making practical use of principles, techniques and methodologies acquired elsewhere in the course.  To give experience of carrying out a large piece of individual work and in producing a dissertation. To enhance communication skills, both oral and written.

o Learning Outcomes

A. Identify and formulate a substantial research problem, and produce a plan to address the problem;

B. Produce and follow an appropriate project plan;

C. Locate and perform a review of project related literature;

D. Design, implement and test solution(s) to the identified research problem;

E. Evaluate in a critical fashion the work done and place it in the context of related work;

F. Prepare and deliver a formal presentation with a demonstration of the project using a suitable means;

G. Structure and write a dissertation.

o Assessment Details

Semester 1 - marking guideline attached as appendix

Please be noted that the three sub-items of the assessment ‘interim progress report,:

a. project specification, b. progress presentation and c. interim progress report will be marked together. The three sub-items combined accounts for total 25% weight.

Interim Progress Assessment is a summative assessment for the first semester. The assessment is based on the three student submissions in the first semester: Project Specification, Progress Demonstration and Interim Progress Report.

FYP students are expected to submit a project specification report by S1 - Week 5. It is a document specifying the problem statement, expected outcomes, project Gantt chart or project schedule and the budget. Supervisors and Assessor will provide written  feedback  to  the   students   so  that  they   could   adjust   their   plan   and understanding after initiate literature review.

The Interim Progress Report should normally not be more than 20 pages. It is a formal report that concludes the achievement during the first semester. This excludes Appendices  and  usually organized  with  following sections:  Background, Main body and conclusion. Based on the nature of projects, the detailed contents in the  background and main body  can be  decided  by  FYP  students  and  their supervisors. The background section should include the  project aims/objectives, a short literature  review   and   the industrial relevance  and  project   motivation. A main body should  include the methodology  and preliminary results,  with  the critical  thinking  for the remained  problems.The FYP  progress analysis and grant chart for S2,s work should be included in the conclusion part.

Semester 2 - marking guideline attached as appendix

The project demonstration is usually organized  at S2-Week 8. It is an oral presentation as well as  hardware/software  demonstration  if  hardware or software   outcomes   are   involved.  It   will be assessed by a panel of at least two academic staffs. It consists of 10-minute presentation plus 5-minute Q&A session  (or total of 15 minutes) for each student.

FYP  Dissertation  is the final summative assessment. It should  be  normally  not more than 40 pages excluding appendices.

Students  are  referred to the separate  document  named “SAT  Final  Year  Project Report Writing” for detailed guidance on the presentation of FYP reports.