Monday 30 September 2013

WEEK 1

Date: 11/9/13

Title of activity
  1. Find supervisor for final year project 1.
  2. Discussion with the supervisor about the title of the project that will developed.
Objective
  • To make sure student have one important person that will supervise student in their project until at the end of this subject.
  • To make sure the project that has been discussed is approved by supervisor.
Content/Procedure

In the first week of semester, student should find project supervisor to monitor the project together with a student. However, it is limited depend on work scope of this subject that has given by his/her subject leader. When project supervisor has be found/selected, several titles of project will be proposed by student to the supervisor and his/her will select one of the several titles of project that has been proposed to registered officially in this subject.

Result/Outcomes

As a result for this week, Miss Fatimah Zaharah Binti Hamidon from electrical section has been selected as a project supervisor. She has select one of the several project that was proposed and name it as Electricity Theft Detection Metering System and this project was approved and registered successfully in UniKLBMI-FYP official website.                

Conclusion

The activity in this week carried out successfully. Since project supervisor was approve and register the project title, student should be able to proceed for the next step/procedure in their project as soon as possible and meet project supervisor periodically for the purpose to update progress project.



Date: 12/9/13
Title of activity
  1. FYP 1 briefing.
Objective
  • To make sure student understand the procedure and the important date that should be taken in this subject.
  • To show the official webpage for this subject and several important thing that should be highlighted in the UniKLBMI-FYP website.
Content/Procedure

As the objectives that listed above, students are given the important information about what a students should do and some of the procedure that they should be follow such as find project supervisor, register project title and etc. This briefing presented by Mdm. Nor Khairiah Bt Ibrahim, Sir Mohd Syazwan Md Yid and Mdm. Nulida Abd Aziz.

Result/Outcomes

From this activity, students know what they should do to achieve the main objective of final year project before they go through to the next procedures which is to prepare log book/blog, presentation and final report.

Conclusion

Final year project briefing is the important program that a students should attend. It is because from here, students will know the procedures that they should be follow and some of the important date that they should be remind to complete all the tasks perfectly. Since the activity for today is finished, student can proceed for their first task as soon as possible.   



Date: 13/9/13
Title of activity
  1. Project scheduling
Objective
  • To manage weekly activities that will be performed systematically
  • To ensure all task are completed on time
Content/Procedure

In developing a project, all the activities that will be performed must be managed systematically. It is to ensure each tasks complete on time. In order to fulfill project requirement in this week, a gantt chart will be created according each activities that will be performed by using Microsoft Excel.
Result/Outcomes 
Below is the result that obtained from this activity:-
Figure 1: Gantt Chart
Conclusion

A gantt chart is a tool that used to illustrates a project schedule. It will become as a guideline in developing a project. All activities in this FYP 1 will be referred through this gantt chart for the purpose to ensure all task complete and submitted on time. For the next progress report, result from the investigation that has accomplished will be shown and discussed.