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FYP Posters

Each FYP group is required to produce a poster for the project. Although posters are not graded, they may help the panel members to grade the final report.

The posters must follow a specific format.

Motivation

The posters are intended to provide an overview of your project to non-specialists of various kinds on different occasions. They will be used in Open-House presentations, and may also be displayed in one of several display cases in the Laboratory hallways.

Poster Layout

See the Poster Layout in JPEG format. There are three sections in the poster layout:

  1. The logos(s) are placed in the upper-left and upper-right corners of the board. The logos have a standard format and size, and are provided.

  2. The title sheet (43.5cm x 8cm) includes the project title, the names of the group members, and the names of the supervisors. The title sheet has three parts:
    1. The title in 24pt (or slightly larger) upper- and lower-case letters.
    2. The students' names, on at most two lines below the title, are in 18pt upper- and lower-case letters.
    3. The supervisors' names, on one line below the students' names, are in 18pt upper- and lower-case letters.
  3. The information sheets (three pages in A4 size) contain the content of the poster. You should design your information layout according to the following guidelines:
    1. The introductory paragraphs should be in a larger typeface than you use in a detailed descriptive section. The typeface should be readable at a distance of two to three meters (while the smallest type you use may be readable at distance of only one meter). Generally speaking, keep in mind that the larger and bolder your presentation, the more enticing it will be to the people seeing it at a distance. The real challenge, then, after you have attracted attention to your poster, is to provide enough interesting and readable details for someone who wants to learn more. One compromise might be to have some parts that are packed with useful information and are typeset in a smaller font. Don't forget, however, that important results should be big enough for reading at a reasonable distance!
    2. You should try to use paragraphs with centered titles, such as "Overview", and "Results" in 18pt upper- and lower-case boldface letters.
    3. Make effective use of titles for paragraphs, figures and other material. Use a typeface that is readable at two to three meters (boldface helps) for the major part of the titles (for visibility) and regular type for details.
    4. A multicolumn format usually improves readability by reducing line length and allowing for more text structuring.
    5. Figures (including diagrams, charts, graphs and schematics) are a good way to communicate interesting ideas.

Poster File Format

Starting from academic year 2007-2008, all FYP posters will be collected online for batch printing by the Publishing Technology Center (PTC).

Meanwhile, it turns out that students are required to submit the title sheet and information sheets only, combined into one high resolution PDF file. In other words, the poster file must be in PDF (Press Quality with all fonts embedded) consisting of 4 pages with the following dimensions:

  • Title sheet (page 1): 43.5cm x 8cm
  • Information sheets (page 2,3,4): A4 size (21cm x 29.7cm)

See the Poster File Format. You may upload it to the FYP Management System after you log in.

Please notice:

  1. The system accepts .pdf file only.
  2. Files uploaded to the system will be renamed to [group_id]_[AID]_[type].pdf, e.g. 19_DL3_poster.pdf.
  3. Any group member may upload the poster file for their group, but the system will only keep the most recently uploaded file. Older versions will be replaced by the newly uploaded file.
  4. Uploaded files cannot be deleted.
  5. Students may download their uploaded file for checking.
  6. Due time is 23:59. Posters cannot be uploaded after that time on the due date.

Exporting PDF File from Office Word 2010

COMP Lab 1, 3 and 4, and ITSC Computer Barns are equipped with Microsoft Office 2010. Students may use this Word template (containing one title sheet and three A4 pages) on Microsoft Office Word 2010 to create the FYP Poster. To convert the FYP Poster from Word document format into PDF, simply saving the file as PDF and you are done.

After finish, you can upload it via the FYP Management System after logging in.