Capstone Project template
Author
Murat Akman
Last Updated
a year ago
License
Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
Abstract
A template for the Capstone Project dissertation at the University of Essex
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%%%%Fancy Chapter%%%
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%%% Make Necessry Changes Here Only %%%
\newcommand{\MyName}{Your Name} %% Change this to your name %%
\newcommand{\CapstoneVariant}{MAXXX} %% Change this to the capstone project variant you enrolled %%
\newcommand{\ProjectTitle}{Title of Your Project} %% Change this to your project title %%
\newcommand{\SuperviserName}{Your Supervisor} %% Change this to your project supervisor %%
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%%% Do not change anything here %%%
\begin{document}
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\begin{minipage}{0.8\textwidth}
$ \qquad \qquad \qquad ${\LARGE \bf \sl University of Essex}
{\LARGE \bf Department of Mathematical Sciences}
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\begin{center}
\noindent\textcolor{myred}{\rule{\linewidth}{4.8pt}}
\vspace{1cm}
{\LARGE \sc \CapstoneVariant{}: Capstone Project Dissertation}
\vspace{1.5cm}
{\Huge{\color{myblue} \ProjectTitle{}}}
\vspace{1.5cm}
{\Large \bf \MyName{}}
\vspace{1.5cm}
%\centerline{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Figure}}
\vspace{8cm}
\vspace{1.5cm}
{\Large {Supervisor:} {\color{mygreen} \bf \SuperviserName{}}}
\vspace{.25cm}
\noindent\textcolor{myred}{\rule{\linewidth}{4.8pt}}
\vspace{1cm}
{\Large \today }\\[4pt]
{\Large Colchester}
\end{center}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
%%% Do not change anything above %%%
\chapter{Introduction}\label{ch:1}
%% You can start with some introduction of your project and background.
\chapter{Your first main chapter}\label{ch:2}
The text goes here ...
\section{Your first section of the first main chapter}\label{sec:2.1}
... goes here.
\chapter{Conclusions}\label{ch:concl}
And here is the final chapter showing how clever you are ....
%%% Those two bibliography items are given as an example remove them and add your bibliography items below %%%
\begin{thebibliography}{999}
\bibitem{Noether}
E.~Noether.
\newblock Invariante {V}ariationsprobleme.
\newblock {\em Nachr. d. K{\"o}nig. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. zu G{\"o}ttingen,
Math-phys. Klasse, {Seite 235-157}}, 1918.
\bibitem{Turing}
A.~M. Turing.
\newblock Computing machinery and intelligence.
\newblock {\em Mind}, 59:433--460, 1950.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}