The hot shot lecturer makes a new rule. He decides that no student will be allowed to sit in the class who has not got a project synopsis approved by him before next Monday. Frantic students got hold of an IEEE login from somewhere and downloaded many projects and submitted to him. Even from those IEEE projects many got rejected.

My cousin got approval after submitting 20 IEEE projects. She send me the document for the one she got approval for. The lecturer even commented that its a very simple project and there is nothing much to do in it. Still he approved the project cos of sympathy for her, I believe.

Now I opened the document and read the synopsis and my head started spinning. Complex matrix operations, Cosine transformations, complex data compressions algorithms, and on top of all that a network protocol implementation. And guess what, its a combined project from Berkeley, MIT and Harvard.

My poor cousin, she is a brilliant student and is very keen to learn new things. But this is too much. She wont even get enough time to learn the mathematics involved in the project.

Read some of my posts about final  year projects.

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Now whats with this IEEE criteria ? There are many engineering colleges in Kerala who set this stupid IEEE criteria. Now how many of those staff members can actually guide the student through an IEEE project ? How many of them even understand the synopsis of an IEEE project ? Ive been wrestling with computers for over 12 years now and most of those IEEE stuff is still Greek to me.

I suggested her that she do a Voip implementation using the open source telephony framework asterisk. Its something that I can help her with, and also its some skill thats in huge demand. But she said, another Voip project got rejected and this wont be approved. How crappy… a project getting rejected just because it has a familiar word “Voip”. The situation is no different with academic seminar.

Let us be very practical here. Will the 4 year good for nothing syllabus make the student capable of doing an IEEE project. All these students are going to join some project institution and buy a project. Whats the point in forcing them to do the so called IEEE project.

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