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GUIDELINES FOR FINAL REPORT
Cover Page:
- Team number
- Team member names
- Prepared for:
- Organization:
- Organization name
- Organization business address
- Main contact person name
- Main contact person position
- Main contact person telephone number
- Advisor:
- K. Gita A.
- School of Industrial Engineering
- Tarumanagara University
- Jakarta, 11440
- Date
- Organization:
- Executive Summary or Project
Summary: Provide a one or two page overview of the project
intended for higher level executives who are interested, but do not
have time to read the whole project report.
- Introduction:
Description of the organization. Where is the organization's
headquarters? What kind of business is the organization in? How many
people does it employ? Other measures of size such as annual
revenues, market shares, etc. Similar information about the
department you worked with directly.
- Problem Description:
Describe the problem symptoms. Be as specific as possible. Provide
quantitative evidence of its magnitude and significance whenever
possible. Only describe the problem, NOT a solution.
- Objectives:
Describe the objectives of your project. These may include a
computer program, database, problem solving method, a prototype
and/or specifications. Also give the anticipated benefits to the
company that you estimate in your proposal. Be specific as possible.
- Solution Approach:
Describe the approach that you followed to address the problem.
Explicitly stated assumptions that you made. You should describe
your method and/or model in this section.
- Results: Provide the
results of your study. Interpret the results and their implications
for the client. Describe also any limitations of your assumptions on
the validity of the results. Describe also how sensitive is your
results with respect to a change in the data, assumptions and/or
method. Be clear about the shortcomings of the results and
additional work that will have to be done if the client wants more
and/or better answers.
- Recommendation and Conclusion:
What are your recommendation? What should your client implement? Do
they need to do more work on some aspects? If yes, what do you
recommend them to do?
- Appendix: All data
that was collected during your study sometimes is better if you
provide me in electronic format. Whichever way you provide the data,
you should include a clear and detailed
description of the data, the individual data fields, and the format
that the data is provided in. If you don't have a lot of data, and
you want to, you can also provide the data in neat tables in the
appendix.
All of the points above are not required to be put in your report. This is just a guidelines. Thus, tailor it to the type of report you are going to write.
Source: Senior Design Project Report Guidelines By Prof. A. Kleywegt School of Industrial and System Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Summer 1998