Abstract
Students’ final year projects are often characterized by poor quality, duplication of existing works, prolonged research writing and late submission. This TetFund sponsored research project: Web-based Student Project Management System, is designed with the latest technologies to mitigate these challenges. The project is designed to provide continuous, timeless and boundless communication between project coordinators and students, students and their supervisors, as well as students researching in the same field. The project automates routine project activities such as listing and selection of project topics, approval of project topics, project report writing guidelines, student/supervisor correspondence, assessment and report submission, and finally report storage and management. Thus, it will eliminate the duplication and recycling of existing projects by making sure that such projects are rejected automatically at the very point of submission for approval, as well as guarantee high quality and timely completion and submission of students’ projects. Agile software design approach, due to its high degree of stakeholder involvement and incremental testing of functionalities, was deployed to design the project. Also the system was developed using Java programming language with Apache Tomcat Server and MySQL as the Database Management System.
Highlights
The Oxford English Dictionary defines project as: (i) an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim (ii) a piece of research work undertaken by a school or college student (iii) a proposed or planned undertaking [1]
Kamarudin states that a final year project entails students researching on a topic of their choice, engaging with the scholarly debates in the relevant disciplines, and, with a supervisor’s guidance — producing a paper that reflects a deep understanding of the topic
The School of Science of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic Unwana (AIFPU) is used as case study for this research project; and in the school, project is normally a second semester work with a timeframe of about 14 weeks while the 15th week is used for its presentation or defense
Summary
The Oxford English Dictionary defines project as: (i) an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim (ii) a piece of research work undertaken by a school or college student (iii) a proposed or planned undertaking [1]. Kamarudin states that a final year project entails students researching on a topic of their choice, engaging with the scholarly debates in the relevant disciplines, and, with a supervisor’s guidance — producing a paper that reflects a deep understanding of the topic. He goes further to state that all undergraduates are required to complete their projects individually as part of the requirement to graduate. Project is where students develop a deeper understanding of the topic that is of interest to them In his own words: “Students get a chance to interact with companies concerning their topic for data collection — whether it be observations, interviews, surveys or any other methods. Once a topic has been approved and registered, the research work takes off forthwith
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