SEMINAR [EEE-652] III-Yr EE (VI Semester)

RULES OF THE GAME

1. Every student third year EE submits a seminar – written or typed. Hardcopy to be submitted.
2. Marks for the seminar: 25, in TWO parts, i) Submission: 15 marks, ii) Viva: 10 marks.
3. Student shall propose a topic to the evaluator, and get it OK-ed. Same will be noted down by the evaluator. This exercise to be completed
by 15th April 2011 (Friday).
4. Student shall develop a seminar on the specified topic from library books / magazines / journals, AND the internet; develop the seminar in
the format given and submit to the evaluator. This exercise to be completed by 21st April 2011 (Thursday).
5. Date(s) for Viva will be announced subsequently; probable period: Last week of April, but before PUTs.
6. During viva, student is expected to (a) explain the substance of the seminar concisely, and (b) answer queries on the particular topic.
7. Any material chosen from any source (book / magazine / journal / internet site …) has to be credited in the References section.
8. The note Format for Written Seminar Report given below details the expected form of the Report. The correct “form” is seen as a very
important part of training, and as such enjoys respectable weightage in evaluation, as you see in Grading section.
9. Student is expected to follow the due processes of library AS WELL AS internet research. Defaulting on this count earns penalty.
10. The SEMINAR is expected to reflect state of the art in the area of the topic. It is the responsibility of the presenter to cover all aspects. It is
advisable that presenters do a thorough study of different (and multiple number of) web-sites / books to prepare. “Single versions” with
everything lifted from ONE site, with helpless “I don’t know”s for queries, will be viewed with distaste, and result in LOW MARKS in
viva.
11. Participants are supposed to: (a) look at different applications, and (b) compare other techniques / technologies dealing with the topic. He /
she is definitely supposed to look to multiple sources, sites.
12. Every student will be given a copy of this document. He / she is supposed to technically keep to this format. Remember, format (form) has
marks going for it. Student is responsible to understand the format him / her-self, and produce a report in accordance with it. For
clarifications, contact undersigned. The grading shall be individual.
13. GOOD LUCK!

V Soami Saran
(Evaluator)

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 Format for Written Seminar Report
This document
1. Rules in this document are meant to be followed – by each and every student writer. There are marks for following the format. So read
carefully.
2. This document is structured in some way. Information has been divided into parts, the parts have been labeled (Sub-title, sub-heading). You
shall do the same thing with the content of your seminar, but more thoroughly. Since this is a single note, I have not labeled my sections – they
span 2-3 pages. Your report is 15-20 pages. So, the numbering of sections would also be necessary. See Table of Contents section for the
format..

Expectation for the written seminar report

1. The minimal effort student must put in, having collected the material, is to format it as per rules in this document. So, both the material and the
form of presentation of information is your job. Bad choice of headings, paragraph sequences etc. will fall flat on their face. We expect much
better treatment from you people. Let there be some savoir faire, and see how flowers (and marks) rain on you. [Hint: savoir faire – adopted
into English from French. Means “ability to say or do the right thing, and gracefully too”.]
2. The other part of expectation from this Seminar Report is your ability to do research – internet, as well as, library-based. For the latter, you can
approach DEI’s Engineering Faculty Library in Dayalbagh, Agra.

The Student writer of Seminar

1. He / she is the author of the seminar. He / she writes it themselves – rather than just copy-paste.
2. He / she follows the rules, and if not, points out, and justifies the deviation.
3. Every little bit of information presented can be credited to its source. So, every student necessarily does that. I.e., write citations. E.g.:
… Several schemes have been proposed for detecting these faults by applying weighted random patterns [BRGL89b,
Wu87, StWu91], pseudo-exhaustive patterns [Akers85, HWH90] or deterministic patterns [Kone91, HELL92, HELL95,
ToMc96, WuKi96, ZRTW96, KiWu97].
4. If something is not credited, then you are saying it. So, proof that portion very carefully. [Hint: Proofing something is re-reading, making sure
of the antecedents (justifications) and the precedents (consequences) of your saying – nay, claiming – something.]

Formal
 Length of the report: 8 to 14 pages, A4, single sided.
 For computer generated report: Spacing 1½, Font “Ariel”, Fontsize 12.

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Title page
1. Seminar (), semester, author, title, advisor. [Hint: Course code happens to be EEE-652]
2. [Notice the change from any previous standards for “Title page”.]
3. No page number for Title page.
4. Use appropriate and decent font and fontsize.

Other (than Title) Pages

1. Page number at bottom-right
2. Section heading at top-right. [Hint: This is the section that the page is starting into.

Table of contents
1. Numbering: use decimal digits (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, …)
2. Heading should carry information (not just "Beginning", "Main Part", "End")
3. Heading in the same hierarchy level (1.1 and 1.2) should correspond to an equivalent logical rank
4. Heading should be different from the main title and subheadings should be different from heading etc.

Objective of the Seminar

 Here you give what you wish to present in this your seminar. [Hint: Note that it does relate to the TOPIC. You can give any justification for
your stated objective.

Main part
1. From TITLE (already fixed) you go get material. Go through the material. Make a plan of presentation. Arrive at OBJECTIVE of Seminar,
Headings (Chapter titles), Sub-Headings. Hierarchical Table of Contents. Fix the content sequence for each Sub-heading. Now read the stuff
again and present it, as much as possible, in your own words. This is the ideal.
2. To say the same thing again, Summarize the important information in your own words; Do not simply copy the contents of your reference
literature.
3. Explain special terms and abbreviations before usage.
4. Number figures and tables and provide captions below the respective table/figure. The main text should reference to and describe the table or
figure.
5. Statements have to be either proofed by yourself, or a reference must be provided. Example of proofing by yourself: “So, we conclude with a
prediction that India’s GDP shall see a rise this year (2011) by an additional 5% independently of any other criteria, and we hypothesize the
cause to be India winning the world cup in cricket – a national passion.”
6. Use abbreviations for references, for example:
… Several schemes have been proposed for detecting these faults by applying weighted random patterns [BRGL89b, Wu87,
StWu91], pseudo-exhaustive patterns [Akers85, HWH90] or deterministic patterns [Kone91, HELL92, HELL95, ToMc96,
WuKi96, ZRTW96, KiWu97]. Most of the deterministic schemes are designed for single scan path architectures. Multiple

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 scan chains are addressed in the schemes of [Kone91] and [ZRTW96] which are based on encoding deterministic patterns
by seeds for an LFSR, …

Conclusion
Every seminar shall have a conclusion, written by you in your own words. Therein you shall tie up the entire issue, drawing the logical conclusion
from the content presented.

References
1. Include all references you cited (and only those).
2. Sort them alphabetically.
3. Include the citation abbreviation together with the author, title, origin and year of publication. E.g.:
Bray84 R. K. Brayton, G. D. Hachtel, C. McMullen, A. Sangiovanni: "Logic Minimization Algorithms for VLSI Synthesis", Boston: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1984.
Brgl85 F. Brglez, H. Fujiwara: "A Netral Netlist of 10 Combinational Benchmark Circuits and Target Translation in Fortran", Proc. Of International
Symp. On Circuits and Systems, 1985, pp. 663-698.
Grading
1. Full 5 marks are meant for form of presentation, not content. This includes Title page, Contents page, Numbering of topics (headings and sub-
headings), whether abbreviations are properly used … in short, the rules of this document.
2. Content (10 marks) will be evaluated for logical consistency, Choice of headings (justification), crediting sources through citations, whether
student has put in sufficient and justifiable effort into the research, justification of conclusion, whether citations are genuine, and whether
sufficient effort has gone into tapping information sources.

Helpful Note
 Everybody tends to overlook simple errors after delving deeply into a subject (including type errors, incorrect grammar) in his/her own report.
In order to avoid these types of errors it is useful to give the report to a colleague or friend for proofreading.

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