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Final Year Project Your Way Around: Kevor Mark-Oliver ICT Dept

This document provides guidance on choosing a topic and developing a proposal for a final year project. It discusses that project topics should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound). Examples of bad topics that lack specificity or clear scope are provided. Good topics are ones that address a well-defined problem. The proposal should include a problem statement, research objectives, and methodology. Approval from the department and assignment of a supervisor is required before beginning the project.

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Final Year Project Your Way Around: Kevor Mark-Oliver ICT Dept

This document provides guidance on choosing a topic and developing a proposal for a final year project. It discusses that project topics should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound). Examples of bad topics that lack specificity or clear scope are provided. Good topics are ones that address a well-defined problem. The proposal should include a problem statement, research objectives, and methodology. Approval from the department and assignment of a supervisor is required before beginning the project.

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Final Year Project

Your Way Around

Kevor Mark-Oliver
ICT Dept.
Choosing a topic
What are the sources of Project topics?
– Ideas from courses taken throughout your
programme.
– Suggestions from Lecturers/Supervisors
– Problems identified in industry
– Review and improvement of previous work by
other students(NOT A REPLICA!)
– From Literature
Characteristics of the project topic
It Must be SMART!
• Specific: is it a precise question?
• Measurable: can you determine if you
succeeded?
• Attainable: Is it realistic to assume you can find a
solution?
• Relevant: is it an important problem to solve
• Time-bound: can it be solved within the time
constraints that you have? About 6months
Examples of Bad topics
• A website for a supermarket
• A web design for a school
• Software design for a clinic
• Software for keeping records in a school
• A bank software
• A website design for a hotel/church/anything
• Designing a software for a supermarket
Examples of Bad topics
• A website for a supermarket
• A web design for a school
• Software design for a clinic
• Software for keeping records in a school
• A bank software
• A website design for a hotel/church/anything
• Designing a software for a supermarket
They not that Bad........
• The Scope is undefined
• Unavailable/Not too clear Concepts
• Not well Structured
• Etc......
Good Project topics
• Improving students enrolment in Institutions
of Higher Learning Using e-learning.
• Integrating Information Systems into Students
Counselling in Institutions of Higher Learning
in Ghana.
• An efficient Computerized Inventory Control
System for a medium Pharmaceutical shop.
• An Online Reservation System for a transport
company. The case of Company X.
• Implementing a more reliable School Selection
and Placement System for the Ghana
Education Service.
• Feasibility Assessment of A web based Market
place in the Ghanaian Context.
• Computerized Fee Collection/Management
System for a Senior High School.
Your turn Now!
• Give me examples of project topics
• Lets refine them so that scope is specific and
concepts are present.
• Concepts may not be clear at this point.
• They may later be defined in your
introduction chapter!
Problem Statement
• Your project is coming out as a result of a
problem, an opportunity or a directive.
• What is about?
• What specific problem are you addressing.
• Scope your problem so that you don’t have
several unrelated problems
Research Objectives
• In conducting your work, you will have a
number of objectives you want to meet.
• These Objectives may be general or Specific.
• You must state the Objective(s) of the
project/Research.
• Your work will be evaluated based on this
objective(s)
• The objective must be closely linked with the
problemStatement.
Research Methodology
1. Problem Statement
2. Literature review
3. Interview design/ questionnaire
/Observation
4. System Analysis and Design( based on 3 )
5. Implementation
6. Conclusions and reccomendations
But first!
• Your Project proposal must be approved by
the department.
• You must be assigned a Supervisor who will
guide you throughout your project.
• Your Supervisor would not do your project for
you.
• The duration for the project is 6months.
Writing a Research Proposal
It is about what you are going to do and how
you are going to do it.
Therefore be careful of your tenses.
You are now going to do the actual project
How do you write your Proposal
• Introduction
– Little background
– You may include problem statement here or as a
section on its own.
• Research Objective
• Research questions
• Significance/Justification
• Methodology

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