Department of Mechanical Engineering
Course Code:
                                                               PROJECT WORK                                          0-0-8: 4
    ME499
Prerequisites: NIL
Course Outcomes:
 CO1 Identify a topic in advanced areas of Mechanical Engineering
 CO2 Review literature to identify gaps and define objectives & scope of the work.
 CO3 Develop a prototype/model, experimental set-up and software systems to meet the
        objectives
 CO4 Analyze the results to draw valid conclusions
 CO5 Explore the possibility of publishing papers in peer reviewed journals/conference
        Proceedings
Course Articulation Matrix:
                       PO1   PO2   PO3     PO4   PO5    PO6    PO7    PO8     PO9       PO10    PO11    PO12    PSO1     PSO2
CO1                     3      2                    2      1             1         3       1       1        2        3     3
CO2                     2      2                    1      2      1      1         2       2                2        3     3
CO3                     2      2       3     3      3      2      2      2         2       1       1        2        3     3
CO4                     2      2             3                                     2       2                1        3     3
CO5                            1             2      2                    2         2       3                1        3     3
Syllabus:
                        Performance        Good 4              Satisfactory 3          Average 2            Poor 1
 Task
                        indicators
                        Selection of       Selection of the    Selection of            Selection of         Selection of the
                        Topic              topic by            the topic by            the topic by         topic with the
                                           referring           referring               referring            help of the
                                           literature          research                research             guide
                                           discussion with     journals in             journals in
                                           guide in two        a month                 more than a
                                           weeks.                                      month
  Selection of Topic
                                           Splitting the       Splitting the           Splitting the        Not able to split
                                           project into        project into            project into small   the project into
                                           small tasks and     small tasks             tasks is not         small tasks.
                                           scheduling          and scheduling          sufficient and       Needs lot
                                           them to finish it   them to finish it       sharing different    of work to
                        Developing         in time and         in time and             tasks among the      be done.
                        Project Plan &     division of the     different tasks         team members
                        Distribution of    work among          of the job              needs some
                        work               the members of      shared among            more attention
                                           the team is         the members
                                           good and            of the team
                                           coordination in     with
                                           the team is         satisfactory
                                           good.               coordination.
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                                             Collected         Collected          Need some more Not collected
  Literature Survey
                                             related           related            research articles    relevant articles.
                                             research          research           for the project
                             Collection      articles are      articles are       work and need
                             of Literature   Good and          satisfactory for   time.
                                             sufficient for    the project
                                             the project       work.
                                             work.
                                             Work              Work               Work completed      Work not
                                             completed in      completed          only 50-60%.        completed.
                             Experiment
  Performance of the task
                                             all aspects and   80%. Can start     Need                Need lot of
                             Analysis/       is ready to       preparing, the     more attention to   attention.
                             Industrial      prepare the       dissertation.      compete       the
                             Problem         dissertation.                        tasks.
                                             Coordinates       Coordinates        Requires more       No proper
                                             team efforts      team efforts       coordination and    coordination
                                             and               and                communication       among the team
                             Team Work
                                             communication     communication      among the team
                                             among             among
                                             members is        members is
                                             good.             satisfactory.
                                             Presentation      Presentation is    Presentation        Presentation in
                                             should be         satisfactory       needs    some       incomplete in all
                                             good with         with the           improvement         aspects.
                             Presentation
                                             results and       results.
                                             with good
                                             figures
  Review
                                             Understanding     Ability of         Ability of          Ability of
                                             the task fully.   correlating the    correlating the     correlating the
                                             Knowing all       theoretical        theoretical         theoretical
                             Understanding   the tasks of      aspects with       aspects with the    aspects with the
                                             the project.      the practical      practical           practical
                                             100%.             aspects is in      aspects is in       aspects is less
                                                               between 60-        between 50-         than 50%
                                                               80%                60%
                                             Dissertation      Dissertation       Dissertation        Dissertation
                                             prepared with     prepared with      prepared with       prepared is not
                                             neat sketches,    neat sketches,     sketches and        complete in all
                                             and complete      and complete       required            aspects and the
                                             with all the      with all the       calculations but    coverage of all
                                             necessary         necessary          needs               the contents is
  Dissertation Preparation
                             Dissertatio     calculations or   calculations or    improvement         poor
                             n               analysis,         analysis,
                             Preparation     contents of the   contents of the
                                             dissertation      dissertation
                                             are well          are well
                                             planned and       planned and
                                             coverage of all   coverage of all
                                             the topics is     the topics is
                                             good              satisfactory
                                             Answering         Answering          Answering           Answering, less
  Viva-voce
                                             100%              80% questions      about 60% of        than 50% of the
                             Understanding   questions         related to the     questions           questions
                                             related to the    project            related to the      related to the
                                             project                              project             project
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                     Responding    Responding      Responding          Not able to
                     immediately   and answering   with much           respond.
                     with          to the          delay and           Understanding
        Response     confidence    satisfactory    answering           the concepts is
                                   level           about 50% of        poor
                                                   the questions
Scheme and Syllabi                                                          w.e.f. 2021-22