Genre: Design Proposal, used to present a new design or an innovative approach to an existing design, with the following purposes:
- Persuade a person or institution to approve your invention.
- Illustrate why the new product is needed and demonstrate that the product will be accepted by the potential users.
- Demonstrate your knowledge on the area.
- Demonstrate that you know how to create a new product from scratch and that you have a plan to make the project real.
Audience: The proposal is intended for two audiences, on one hand for a technical audience of engineers who understands the details of the design and on the other hand for top managers that can make decisions to go ahead with the project. Some chapters of the proposal are dedicated exclusively to the technical audience while the others serve both audiences. In this assignment, only Background and Intellectual Property are dedicated to the technical audience.
Due date: Two weeks after last topic is covered in class.
Format details: According to modified IEEE style, this style should be strictly followed and can be found at:
http://web.eng.fiu.edu/arellano/1002/Style/msw_usletter_format_nov12mod.docBe sure to save some time for final edits, to eliminate errors and typos that could lead your audience to question your professionalism and the quality of your work.
Please find grading details and estimated page count in the following table. A detailed rubric with grading criteria will be provided.
Please use the exact same section numbering.
Section Weight Typical page count
II. PROBLEM STATEMENT
A. Project Objectives
B. Constraints Write this part only after you complete the Need Analysis
5 1
III. ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS.
A. Assumptions 5 1
B. Limitations
IV. NEEDS FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS
A. Needs Analysis Conclude with Problem Statement and Objectives 10 5
B. Need Specification 10 2
D. Marketability 10 1
VI. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT 3 1/2
VII. INTENDED USER(S) AND INTENDED USE(S)
A. Intended user(s). 3 1/2
B. Intended use(s). 4 1/2
VIII. BACKGROUND 15 10
IX. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 10 6
XVII. CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
A. Alternative Options
1) Advantages
2) Disadvantages 10 6
XVI. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND SOCIAL IMPACT 15 3
TOTAL 100 36.5
Deliverables:
• Report,
• PowerPoint
• Presentation
RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT GUIDELINES
While you prepare your research project you will be working on some important and time-consuming sections of your Senior Design II Proposal.
An approved proposal is required to pass this course. If your research document is not satisfactory you will:
• Not have a good grade.
• And still will need to do corrections.
Remember that if you did not have time to do it right the first time, how are you going to have time to do it right the second time?
Use the check boxes after the item numbers to verify that you have followed all the steps.
Below you will find sections of your proposal document. I would recommend that:
□ 1. You start early.
□ 2. You use a uniform style across the project according to the format guidelines indicated in class.
□ 3. Use the sections numbering according to that indicated in the Proposal Outline even if it means that you will have jumps in the numbering in this report.
□ 4. Use the “Supermarket shopping list style” as indicated in the “Style” presentation (“Supermarket shopping list style” is a class example of somebody explaining an idea to a person he does not know).
IV. NEEDS ANALYSIS
A. Needs Analysis
B. Need Specification
C. Marketability
Show that you understand that a “Successful Design” requires understanding the needs of clients and users. Follow the guidelines presented in the lecture. We would like to show the reader details about the methods you followed:
• Need Analysis: Show and explain the different steps of the Need Analysis including the tables with the objectives and their evolution. Explain all the steps. Make sure that the problem statement, objectives, and constraints are self-standing. For example, “The boomerang should return near the launcher.”, rather than “Should return near the launcher.”.
• Need Specification: Briefly explain how you came to an agreement on how to specify the objectives. For each objective provide a specification and a rationale on how and why the spec value was chosen (See lecture). Make sure to include specifications coming from operating environment and assumptions.
• Marketability: Write a separate section of your proposal about Marketability. Provide convincing arguments of your project Marketability. You must review two similar projects in https://www.kickstarter.com/.
□ 1. Each item you review must have a Sub Section Heading and an entry in the Table of Contents.
□ 2. In the beginning of the first paragraph of each Kickstarter project you should name authors, institution date and citation number. Make sure that the citation number that is enclosed by square brackets. “in [1] . . .”, rather than as “in reference [1] . . .”. In general, it is not necessary to mention the authors of a reference, but in this case, they are relevant to the context.
□ 3. You must find at least two projects that relate to your topic or that may have similar approaches.
□ 4. The projects should be current.
□ 5. For each project the corresponding section should include the following subsections:
i. Project Summary: Natural Language description of the project.
ii. Fund rising strategy (Rewards)
iii. Technology Overview (Type of Technology, Components used and their main characteristics, speed power consumption, etc). No explanations of the interconnections or operation are provided here.
iv. System Description. Detailed explanation of the signals flow and interconnections including at least:
v. One Block Diagram
vi. One Picture
□ 6. You must conclude with a hypothetical fund rising strategy, inspired by the examples you just analyzed, or by ideas presented at:
http://www.cnbcprime.com/shark-tank?__source=pd|SharkTank|Google_Search&par=pd
Start with something like: “If we were to make a fund rising …”
VIII. BACKGROUND
The intention of this section is for you to establish a frame of reference about available technology, current state of the art, and possible approaches.
Please take into consideration that:
□ 1. Each item you review must have a Sub Section Heading and an entry in the Table of Contents.
□ 2. In the beginning of the first paragraph of each research project you should name authors, institution date and citation number. Make sure that the citation number that is enclosed by square brackets. “in [1] . . .”, rather than as “in reference [1] . . .”. In general, it is not necessary to mention the authors of a reference, but in this case, they are relevant to the context.
□ 3. You must find at least three projects and/or products that relate to your topic or that may have similar approaches.
□ 4. The topics should be current.
□ 5. For each research project the corresponding section should include the following subsections:
i. Project Summary: Natural Language description of the project.
ii. Technology Overview (Type of Technology, Components used and their main characteristics, speed power consumption, etc). No explanations of the interconnections or operation are provided here.
iii. System Description. Detailed explanation of the signals flow and interconnections including at least:
iv. One Block Diagram
v. One Picture
□ 6. Use your own words, copy and paste of text will be considered plagiarism and will severely affect your grade depending on the magnitude of the case.
□ 7. Any picture, figure, table or graphic item that you import from the document must include the name of the original project and a citation
□ 8. You should write Project reviews of no less than 2 pages, no more than 3 pages.
IX. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The intention of this section is to demonstrate that you are Intellectual Property aware, that you know what to look for and where. You must also demonstrate that when there are patents involved, that you are able to use different approaches in your design that would overcome the infringement. You should review at least three patent reviews. You should include:
□ 1. Not to use less than a page per patent but no more than three pages for each patent.
□ 2. Sub Section Heading and an entry in the Table of Contents per item reviewed.
□ 3. Patent number as part of the Sub Section Heading.
□ 4. An overview of the patent.
□ 5. Summary of the claims that may relate to you project.
□ 6. What measures could be taken to avoid infringement.
□ 7. Include at least one figure from the patent.
□ 8. No expired patents please.
□ 9. Find a name for your team that does not have any copyright or trademark conflict.
□ 10. Write an IP contract to be included in the appendix indicating:
i. Your criteria for co-inventorship. Who will be considered inventor? In what extent? (Team members, mentor, sponsors)
ii. Who will be the invention spokesman?
iii. How you plan to split profit.
iv. What will be the mechanism for intellectual property decision making?
XVII. CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
□ 1. Follow the guidelines indicated in the Concept-End Product lecture.
□ 2. Illustrate the method you follow and how you obtain the weights.
□ 3. For each option indicate its advantages and disadvantages. Please do that not as a summary but in each option section.
□ 4. Complete the whole section
XVI. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND SOCIAL IMPACT
The intention of this section is for you to explore the ethical issues that could be related to your project and to demonstrate that you are able to solve ethical dilemmas when the Code Model is not sufficient to solve the ethical issues. You could use different approaches to this section and your considerations might be related to one or more of the following aspects.
• Will you be working in a controversial topic that poses an ethical dilemma?
• Will you be contributing to solve an ethical dilemma?
• What would be the ethical implications if there are flaws in your approach?
Please consider the following guidelines when writing this section:
A. Ethical Considerations
□ 1. Start with a paragraph that clearly indicates that you follow IEEE code of ethics. Refer to some of the IEEE codes and explain their relevance to your project.
□ 2. Find an ethical dilemma, of complex nature, that can’t be solved using IEEE code of ethics, and needs to be resolved using the Theory Model.
□ 3. When describing your dilemma, write it in a standalone indented paragraph using italics. As in the example below:
After an exhaustive ethical analysis of our project, Nibh cursus ridiculus cum, vulputate urna sapien lacus non repudiandae. Faucibus ornare. Ut ac tempor justo malesuada nulla, lacus est suscipit, nec enim commodo et sed sem eleifend, netus congue nec rutrum aenean praesent, sodales dictum ut praesent adipiscing sitwe found that we may be facing the following dilemma:
Our project may result in jobs lost as a case of robots replacing humans.
□ 4. Present several options to solve the dilemma and use a decision system such as Line Drawing. Do not include among them best worse and compromise.
B. Social Impact
□ 5. Use the data you have obtained from your survey and your contacts with students and faculty abroad.
□ 6. Write an essay of how your project will contribute to:
a. Local Culture
b. Global Culture
□ 7. Based on Sebastian Deterding’s talk: What your designs say about you, elaborate on:
a. What are the intentions that you bring to bear with your design?
b. What are the effects, intended and unintended, that you may have?
c. What are the values you are using to judge those?
d. What vision of the good life you want to convey and create with your design?
THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE A VISUAL IDEA ON HOW THE PROJECT SHOULD LOOK LIKE
VIII. BACKGROUND
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A. Autonomous Airplane
This project was accomplished by John Smith and Alfred White at ABC University in 2001 [1]. Integer suspendisse et diam sed feugiat erat, integer integer id mi viverra nibh ipsum, posuere justo volutpat posuere pellentesque. Fusce quam, blandit orci dapibus ipsum massa, in dis. Dignissim iaculis sed nulla auctor. Eget eleifend sit phasellus, sed lorem a aliquet eu venenatis nibh, euismod massa class quam pharetra amet nostra.
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2) Technology Overview: Sem consectetuer non sit magna donec risus, amet luctus. Risus fames ligula nulla metus auctor nulla, vitae consequat non placerat, diam tortor, sit mattis venenatis lorem, luctus luctus voluptates in vel magna. Sed exercitation lectus mollis dictum. The list below shows key components of this project.
i) Microcontroler
ii) Accelerometer
iii) GPS module
iv) Rechargeable batteries
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Figure 3 System Diagram, from page 10 of [1]
(The diagram must be explained in the text)
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IX. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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C. Robot System, United States Patent 7,066,291
This patent by Martins, et al. was granted in June 27, 2006 and will be describe in the next sections.
1) Summary:
Use your own words, do not copy and paste. A mobile robot system for performing a plurality of separate operations, and including at least one autonomous wheeled mobile robot having at least one wheel-driving motor, an on-board computer, a system for navigation, orientation, and maneuvering in an environment with moving obstacles, a sensor system, a wireless communication system operative to receive and send signals, and a plurality of dockable operation modules and operative to be selectively coupled to the autonomous mobile robot to form an operation unit, wherein the autonomous wheeled mobile robot autonomously docks to the dockable operation modules.
2) Claims Summaries:
In your own words make a summary of all the claims that could relate to your project. Elit dui aliquam tortor dignissim mi maecenas, in velit justo mi, sed viverra eget, diam accumsan interdum. Dapibus dolor nam amet sodales at ac, suscipit vel in accumsan vel et et, ut vivamus. Duis a, tempor nec pede. Nisl aliquam ac wisi posuere risus integer, ultricies magna amet mattis dignissim, metus iaculis id varius feugiat nec. Quis donec nullam arcu in dolores, nam habitasse luctus vivamus, eget purus non nec culpa natoque sit, primis neque morbi integer vestibulum. Ac augue sit elit scelerisque erat.
3) Non Infringement:
Explain here why you will not infringe. Make sure you avoid infringement of the claims. That is not necessary obtained by changing implementations. Like their patent is for a wireless product, ours is not.
Sample Solution
