How to write the perfect Synopsis for Engineering Projects

Engineering students in Mumbai have to do a project in the final year, and they have to submit a project synopsis as part of the final project submission.

Here we take a look at the various things that you should ideally include in a project synopsis.

Things you need to include in project synopsis:

Project title
Team details
Aim / Objective
Technologies used
Module Introduction (Post Management)
Module Introduction ( Comments management)
Module Introduction ( Admin Module)
Current status of project development
Target audience
Market potential and expected popularity
All the above points are discussed and explained below :

Project title :
Name your project, provide it such a title that the intent of your project is clear. Refer to your project by this title in all your conversations about your project. Providing a title to your project helps your team develop a bonding with the idea they are working on.

Team details:
Provide a brief about what the roles and responsibilities of each team member. A sample of what you can write in this section is as follows :

Team details:
Total team strength: 5
Total number of modules: 4

The team would be divided to work on each module. Each of the team members will play separate roles during the development of their modules.

Aim / Objective
This section describes the motive behind development of your project. It should clearly define what your project is and what you intent to achieve by developing this project.

Technologies Used ( Technology stack )
What do i mean by technology stack ? Well a technology stack is the complete set of technologies required for the completion of a project. Projects are not completed by using just one technology. We often use more than one technologies during our project work. So this section should mention a list of all technologies that you plan to use in your project.

A sample of a technology stack would be :

Technologies used :

This project will be using the following technology stack:

a) Asp.net MVC
b) C#
c) LINQ
d) WCF
e) JQuery

Module Information :
Next in your synopsis you should discuss the modules which shall form a part of your project. The intent of this section is to provide information about what all each module will accomplish – in brief ! Just put all the functionality each module is supposed to do in bullet points, not need to explain each point. For example if i have an admin module in my project, i shall summarize that module as follows :

Module Introduction ( Admin Module)

This blog application has a complete admin panel for performing administration. The main administration is done for user management, role allocation, determining what permissions to be given to which role etc. Following are the features that would be included in this module

1) Manager blog user.
2) Manage user roles. User management would be done using asp.net membership profiles.
3) Assigning permissions to each roles. This would decide what that role can do.
4) Managing styles and themes for the blog. The user would be able to change the look and feel of the blog using this feature.
5) Add / remove categories for posts.
6) Managing user profiles.
7) Password management
8 ) Each of the steps above would have an email sent to the user and the admin to inform them about the changes and also to ask for their approval if required.

Current status of project development :
Mention the current status of your project development in this section. If you are starting your project from then very beginning then mention that your project is in the planning stage and you are about to start with the development efforts. In case you already have a project which is in a semi completed state, then mention the current state of your project and quantify the amount of work that has already been done in your project and the amount of work you shall be doing to complete it. It is very much possible that you get a project from your seniors ( or from another company ) and are carrying forward this project. This section will help your supervisor understand the effort you shall be putting towards completing your project.

Target audience :
Mention the target audience over here, the section of people for whom this project is being developed, or the section of people to whom this project will be beneficial. For example a sample target audience content would be:

This project would be of useful to anybody interested in hosting his / her individual blog. Also this will be used for hosting blogs in a company where there will be multiple users using this blog and managing their profiles. This is an open source project so the users can at anytime modify the code as per their priorities. They would be able to share their posts with the world using RSS feeds and also categorize their posts as per their liking.

Market Potential :
Provide a brief description about what potential your project has if launched in the market. What are it’s acceptance chances and expected popularity in case your project is launched in market. Sample content that can be put in this section is :

As this is an open source project the market potential for it makes no sense. There are nofinancial motivations behind building this project. The main motivation is experimentation and developing a world class piece of software. On the flip side the popularity of this project is expected to be huge. We expect that the number of downloads of this project would surpass 1000 in the very first year. Then with more addition in functionality the popularity of this project is expected to raise more.

Its important to approach your project work professionally and with full dedication. Prepare your synopsis in a way that anybody who reads it gets a clear idea of what you are doing and what you will deliver at the end.

In case you have any problems understand / thinking contents for your synopsis, you can contact and i shall be more than happy to help.

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