To check the practical skills of students, projects and assignments can be given to them. Projects and assignments are generally given to a group of people to analyze their team skills. It means the concepts is “different things for different person”. A project consists of different modules and each module is usually handled by a team member. The team handling the project is called project team. Project requires a high degree of innovation and creativity. The project consists of a proper beginning, proper end and proper steps to be used between this start and end.
There can be different types of projects. These projects include engineering projects in which the main aim is to build a new engineering product or device; construction projects, in which the objective will be to build a new building, like a model of dams, bridges etc. IT projects in which the main aim is to build a new software or hardware product, Industrial project where the main objective is to build a new production unit, etc. To handle and manage all these projects and assignments, a management is present in every organization which is called project management. It contains set of rules and methods that are used to handle all projects an there teams in a specific way.
The main purpose of project and assignments is to provide a way of developing your practical skills.
Like a student gets a project at the end of each semester so that he can use all his/skills and whatever he reads throughout semester. There are a number of assignments can be given to a student but during the semester. So we can say that assignments are small or mini projects that can be given to an individual.