University of Duhok

College of Engineering

Final Year Projects (FYP) Regulations

2022-2023

April 2023
 Cover Page

1. The color of front cover binding for the project report should be blue for all the
students of departments.
2. . The front cover of the report should be in printed form. The required print
spacing on front cover page is as follows:
Size: A4 size,
Margin: Left: 3.5 Cm, Right: 2.5 Cm, Top: 2.5 Cm, bottom: 2.5 Cm (see Figure 1)
3. The title of the project should also be printed on the bind area of the report.
4. Only one side of the page should be printed. The other side should be left blank.
5. The font used should be times new roman, 12 points plain, with Double spacing
between two consecutive lines.
The project report should be soft bound, three copies: Library copy, chairman
copy, and supervisor copy.

The Report

1. General

1.1 The project report should be soft bound, three copies: Library copy, chairman
copy, and supervisor copy.
1.2 The number of pages in the report should be in between 30 to 50, excluding
appendices.
1.3 The name of the project should be in in the header at the right and number in
footer at middle.
1.4 . Students have to prepare two extra copies of their report for exam committee.
2. Report Structure
2.1. Primarily pages (Small Latin numbering ie i,ii, iii, iv,…..)

Name of the page Page Title Font

a Approval Page [16+Bold] Upper case Compulsory

. [centered]
B Declaration Page [16+Bold] Upper case Compulsory
[centered]
C DEDICATION 16 Upper case Centred (optional)

d ABSTRACT 16, Upper case Centered (Compulsory)

e ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [16]Upper case, Centered (optional)

f TABLE OF CONTENTS [16+bold] Upper case (Compulsory)

Centered
g LIST OF FIGURES [16] Upper Case centered (Compulsory)

m LIST OF TABLES [16+Bold] Upper case (Compulsory)

Centered
h LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS [16+Bold] Upper case (Compulsory)
centered
 2.2 Main body (start format numbering, ie 1,2,3,….)

2.2.1 Main body

i- Introduction and Theoretical background
ii- Overall system explanation
iii- Description of components of the system
iv- Selection of tools for developing project
v. Overall operation of the system.

2.2.2 Discussion, conclusion and future recommendation.

2.2.3 Appendices

I. Cost and Time analysis of the Project.

II. Data sheets of the Major Components (If applicable).

2.2.4 References

2.2.5 The students are also required to provide the overall material of project
report on CD which should be placed in proper jacket within library copy.

3. Detailed Structure of Final Year Report

3.1 Format: The following format is applicable to the report

3.1.1 The report and synopsis must be prepared in the English language using
12 point “Times New Romani” font, using only black ink on white, at least 80
gram/square meter, A4 standard paper size. Lines must be double spaced.
Margin must be as shown in Figure 1.

3.1.2 The page number should not appear on the title page or section title
pages.

3.1.3 The project title , project number and department’s name should be
appeared in the header of every page.

3.1.4 In the table of contents, four levels of heading can be used, inclusive of
the chapter titles. There must be at least two subheadings within a level of
heading.

3.1.5 The references must be arranged in the order of their appearance.

Each entry of the reference must be referred to at least once in the body of
the report by using a format as follows:

[Index number]

For example, [12], [23].

3.1.6 Every figure must have the figure number in an Arabic numeral, i.e ·
Figure 1.1, Figure 2.5, etc. and the figure title is centered at bottom of the
figure.

3.1.7 Every table must have the table number, e.g. Table 1.1, Table 2.10, and
so on and the table name is centered at the top of the table.
 3.1.8 Note that, for example Figure 2.5 or Table 1. the first number (i.e., 2 and
1) represents chapter to which the figure or table belongs, while the second
number (i.e., 5 and 3) indicates their order in the chapter.

3.1.9 The appendices should be used to contain lengthy or detailed

Supplementary documentation that may not be appropriate if inserted in the
body of the report. Examples are data sheets of components, diagrams models,
sample documents, system structured charts, program listing, user's manuals,
system's manuals, and glossary terms.

3.2 Report Content

The report should contain the following order:

3.2.1 A title page contains:

3.2.1.1 Project Title.

3.2.1.2 Name of the department.

3.2.1.3 Name of the student’s group’s members.

3.2.1.4 Supervisor’s Name.

3.2.1.5 Submission month and year including Kurdish year.

3.2.2 An Approval Page contains:

3.2.2.1. Project title

3.2.2.2 Name of the department

2.2.2.3 Name of the group members

2.2.2.4 Project supervisor name

2.2.2.5 Academic year

2.2.2.6. Students must show the following statement:

"The department of [Department Name] in College of Engineering,

University of Duhok has approved this final year project. The project is
submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor of Science in [Department Name].

2.2.2.7 Approval committee names: (Committee comprises of the Project

coordinator, project supervisor, and the chairman of electrical and
computer engineering department)

3.2.3 Declaration Page students of the project should sign the following page

Student Declaration

We being members of final year project

group , declare that this report contains only work
 completed by members of our group except for information obtained in a legitimate
way from literature, company or university sources. All information from these other
sources has been duly referenced and acknowledged in accordance with the
University of Duhok Policy on Plagiarism.

3.2.4 The validation Page: The Students should sign the following statement

Validation of Project

We the students of final year project group _, declare that this said
project shall be placed officially in the library of [department name] with the abiding
interest and rights as follows:

• This Project/Thesis is the sole legal property of University of Duhok.

• The [name of the department] has the lawful right to make copies for the purpose
of academic and research purposes.

• The [Name of the department] has the lawful right to digitalize the content for the
Local Content Database.

• The [name of the department] has the lawful right to make copies of the Project for
academic exchange between Higher Learning Institute.

• No dispute or any claim shall arise from the student itself neither third party on this
Project once it becomes the sole property of the University of Duhok.

• This Project or any material, data and information related to it shall not be
distributed, published or disclosed to any party by the student except with [Name of
the Department].

3.2.5 Acknowledgements [ 16 point+Bold]

It is usual to acknowledge your supervisor, examination committee,

chairman of department, and help given by technical support staff and others as
appropriate at the start of your report.

3.2.6 Synopsis [Abstract]

A short summary (100-200 words) distilled from the introduction

conclusion and recommendation of your project after the report is written.

3.2.7 Table of Content

3.2.7.1 All chapter topics should be written in upper case without bold.

3.2.7.2 Subtopics written in each chapter should be numbered using Arabic

numerals and indented one tab as shown below.
 Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the project

1.2 Objectives

3.2.8 List of Figures Examples Figure 1.1, Figure 2.1

3.2.9 List of Tables. Examples Table 1.2, Table 3.1.

3.2.10 Bibliography and References

A bibliography is a complete list of books and paper that you have consulted
during your work. The following format should be applied:

3.2.10.1 Books

• One Author
[35] Smith, Gerald M. “Statistical Process Control and Quality
Improvement”, 3rd Edition. New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1998
• Two or More Authors
• [17] Gonzalez, Rafael C., and Richard E. Woods. “Digital Image
Processing”. New York, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993.

[42] Shelly Garry B., et al. Business Data Communications.

Massachusetts, Course Technology, 1999.
• A selection from an edited collections

[18] Pughm A. K. "Styles and Strategies in Silent Reading." Processing of

Visible Languages, Vol.l. Ed. P. A. Kolers, M. E. Wrolstad, and H. Bouma,
New York, Plenum Press,1979.

2.2.10.2 Periodical Articles

 One Author
[5] Dubuois, Betty Lou. "The Uses of Slides in Biomedical
Speeches,”ESB Journal/Fall 1980 PP.45-5
 Two Authors or more
[20] Gupta, Lalit, T. Sortrakul, A. Charles, and P. Kisatsky,
"Robust automatic target recognition using a localized
Boundary representation," Pattern Recognition./ Vol. 28,
No. 10, 2000

[20] Gupta, L., et al,"Robust automatic target recognition

using a localized Boundary representation," Pattern
Recognition./ Vol. 28, No. 10, 2000.

 No Author
[4] "An Unemployment Wallop." Times,115, May 12, 1980;
pp.54-55.
3.2.11 Appendices

Only include items that are referred to in the report. Do not include
published work- this should just be listed in the references. CD- ROMs
must be securely attached to the inside-back cover of the
accessible and replaceable. If student has a large document as anappendix
e.g. a user manual, this may be submitted separately, if absolutely
necessary. In this case it must be labeled clearly on the cover and on the
spine to indicate its contents.

3.2.13 Summery of the report Organization

 Cover Page
 Approval page
 Declaration Page
 Acknowledgmet
 List of Figures…………………………………………………i
 List of Tables………………………………………………….ii
 Abberviation…………………………………………………..iii
 Abstract………………………………………………………. Chapters
o Chapter 1
1.1 …………………………………………………………………………………1
1.2 …………………………………………………………………………………3

1.3…………………………………………………………………………………4

1.3.1………………………………………..……………………………………4

1.3.2……………………………………………………………….…………….6

1.3.2.1……………………………………………………….………………….7

1.3.22………………………………..…………………..……………………..10

o Chapter 2………………………………………….…………………….11

2.1

` 2.2

2.2.1

• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter
• chapter
• chapter
•

BIBLOGRAPHY ……………………………………………….35

APPENDIXA......................................................................38.
APPENDIX B: .....................................................................45

APPENDIX C:........................................................................50

List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Machine-oriented data division hierarchy ………………………. 6

Figure 2.1 Application-oriented· data division…………………………………11

Figure 3.1 Disk module interaction……………………………………………..16

List of Figures

Figure 4.1...............

Figure 5.2 .................

List of Tables

Table 2.1 illustration of full name of record ……………………………………………….17

 2.5 Cm

Proposed title or cover page

The University of Duhok

College of Engineering

Civil Engineering Department

3.5 Cm

An investigation into the developments of the 4th year graduation project

for the College of Engineering
by 2.5 Cm

1. Yousif Yousif Yousif

2. Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed
3. Kovan Kovan Kovan
4. James James James
5. Nazeer Nazeer Nazeer.

Supervised by

Kurdistan Kurdistan Kurdistan

Submitted for in partial-fulfillment of the requirements for the BSc

in [Name of the department] Engineering

Gulan 2628-M

Figure 1

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 Approval Page

Students must show the following statement:

"The department of [Department Name] in College of Engineering, University of Duhok

has approved this final year project. The project is submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in [Department Name].

The Approval page must be signed by Approval Committee members

Approval committee names: (Committee comprises of the Project coordinator, project

supervisor, and the chairman of electrical and computer engineering department)
 Discipline of [Department’s Name]

Final Year Projects

Student Declaration

We the students of final

year project group , declare that this report contains only
work completed by myself except for information obtained in a
legitimate way from literature, company or university sources. All
information from these other sources has been duly referenced and
acknowledged in accordance with the University of Duhok Policy on
Plagiarism.
 Validation of Project

We the students of final year project group , declare that this said project
shall be placed officially in the library of [department name] with the abiding interest and
rights as follows:

• This Project/Thesis is the sole legal property of University of Duhok.

• The [name of the department] has the lawful right to make copies for the purpose of
academic and research purposes.

• The [Name of the department] has the lawful right to digitalize the content for the Local
Content Database.

• The [name of the department] has the lawful right to make copies of the
Project for academic exchange between Higher Learning Institute.

• No dispute or any claim shall arise from the student itself neither third party on this
Project once it becomes the sole property of the University of Duhok.

• This Project or any material, data and information related to it shall not be distributed,
published or disclosed to any party by the student except with [Name of the Department].

Students’ Name and signatures’

[Date]

Supervisor’s Name and signature