Week 10 - 27th March 2012

Proposed Project Presentation to Advisor (2nd Presentation)


This week are the second presentation of my improvise project presentation slides to my respective lecturer Sir Mohd Azlan B Abu. 


The reason for the presentation is for my preparation before Final Year Project Committee Assessors assessing me in week 12 which will determined the marks for the first semester final year project subject. 


Sir Azlan has approve my slides and given tips to improve my presentation skills for the big day ahead. Sir Azlan also demanded to see again all students under his jurisdiction to presented again the slides in week 11. Which he also will reveal our assessors name during the session.


Project Proposal Progress:-


1) The project proposal is finished as draft.
2) Continue in formatting the proposal to be sent for my Advisor in week 13.


Task:-


This week also we have been given tasks and explanations on what other paperwork need for us to submitted by the end of the semester. The paperwork are Final Year Project (Final Report - drafts) which include:-


-Chapter 1 - Introduction    
-Chapter 2 - Literature Review
-Chapter 3 - Methodology


Comments:-


As we finished the presentation slides, all of the information are need to be write in detail for the first three chapter of FYP report.

Week 9 - 20th March 2012

Proposed Project Presentation to Advisor (1st Presentation)

In this week I have shown my proposed project presentation slide to my respective advisor Sir Mohd Azlan B Abu and my advisor seem to be approving the slides to be presented for FYP Assessors in week 12.

With many advises and critics from Sir Azlan and fellow project students under the same advisor I was inform to improvise and altering some slides for the project before presented to FYP assessor.

Point to be improve:-

1) Problem statement.
2) Need to simplify my slides. To many point and less picture.

Point to be added / research :-

1) Expected results.
2) Hardware price.

Progress:-

1) Problem Statement remade and ready to be recheck by advisor in week 10.

2) More picture has been added and my explanation for each slides has been removed and changed to simplified point-form information.

3) Expected results in progress. Need to be comparing with my 2nd reference for more information. The expected result were determined by combining information of the 2nd reference results and online weather information.

4) Hardware is not yet to be confirmed yet as the only alternatives are the old version of Data Acquisition Unit (DAQ) hardware prepared in UniKL laboratory for student use. It may suffice if my project more focus on software design.

Proposal Progress:-

 Methodology , Benefits and Contribution, and Objectives has been done and compiled in proposal drafts file.

Week 8 - 13th March 2012

Presentation Delay

This week I were supposed to presenting my slides for the proposed project, but is delayed to next week due to my Advisor tight schedule that force the presentation to week 9 [ 20/3/2012]

Proposal Writing


As the presentation delayed, I have been given task to start preparing a draft for my project proposal. Thus the following are needed for the draft:-

• ABSTRACT                                                               
• INTRODUCTION                                                      
• PROBLEM STATEMENT                                        
• LITERATURE REVIEW                                          
• METHODOLOGY                                                  
• OBJECTIVES                                                           
• BENEFITS/ CONTRIBUTIONS                                    
• WORK PLAN & BUDGET                                     
• CONCLUSION                                                         
• REFERENCES 

Progress:-

 The draft progress for the week, I manage to settle from abstract to literature review.

Week 7 - 6th March 2012

Presentation Slide Finished


Following the task given in week 5, this week assignment in continuation of week 6 task as in to completing my proposed project slide to be presented to my advisor Sir Mohd. Azlan B. Abu [MAZA]

Task:-

1) Determined the objectives of the project.
2) Research on methodology for the project.
3) Defining the benefits of the project.
4) Research on hardware to be use in the project and the budget.

Progress:-

1) Point 1-3 is completed, and compiled in the presentation slide file and ready to be presented.

2) Hardware has been determine, it was an equipment use as in the 2nd references project to monitor the environment and it can be interface with LabView. The product name is NI WIFI DAQ which using wireless network to established connection with personal computer. The product image is as below:-


The only problem is the price. And I will need to consider other options as I did this project alone and having financial limitation.