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Title: Solicited Proposal About a Summer Undergraduate Research Project


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Solicited Proposal About a Summer Undergraduate
Research Project
Proposing Persuading Class Andrea
Mencarelli 4th December 2007
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Outline
  • Why a proposal for an undergraduate project? Who
    is the real applicant?
  • Description of the RFP
  • Topic of the proposal
  • Parts of the proposal
  • Application
  • Reference letter
  • Project Proposed
  • My reflection

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Why a proposal for an undergraduate project?
  • Continuation of the unsolicited proposal sent to
    my advisor to hire a student to help us in our
    model research
  • Good training for a proposal about my field due
    to the scarcity of real proposal
  • Example to show to my advisor students to invite
    them to apply

4
Who is the real applicant?
  • Student of Engineering
  • Sophomore year or older
  • Interesting in advance studies about concrete
    behavior

Ordinary Resistance Test
Advance Fracture Test
5
Description of the RFP
  • From the RPI Office of Undergraduate Education
  • Funding for research projects with a faculty
    advisor
  • Ten-week period full-time job
  • 3000 of stipend
  • http//undergrad.rpi.edu/

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Topic of the proposal
  • Current situation many experimental data about
    concrete, but not organized
  • Effects no knowledge about possible relations
  • Proposal put in order these data
  • Method database
  • Desired situation data are organized and ready
    to be analyzed
  • Benefits data immediately available and
    discovery of new relations

7
Application
  • Student personal information
  • Gender, ethnicity, citizenship information only
    for tracking and reporting purposes
  • Professor basic information
  • Abstract

8
Reference letter
  • Student academic performances (classes)
  • Student extra-academic performances (university
    life)
  • Judgment academic and professional potential of
    the student
  • Availability for additional information

9
Project Proposed
  • Abstract
  • Objective Significance current situation and
    effects
  • Project Design Feasibility proposal with
    methods
  • Background classes, grades, internships
  • Presentation Evaluation
  • Dissemination of Knowledge

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Project Design Feasibility proposal with
methods
  • Detailed work-plan
  • Example of the database

11
Presentation Evaluation
  • Weekly meetings
  • Final presentation
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Quantitative number of concretes inserted in the
    database
  • Qualitative capacity of finding parameter
    relations

12
Dissemination of Knowledge
  • Journal paper complicated way
  • Conference paper or poster undergraduate student
    conferences from next autumn
  • Online database fast and easy way

13
My reflections
  • First approach writing a solicited proposal
  • Importance of the alignment
  • Importance of a work plan and of tables to
    explain the problem solution
  • Importance of the dissemination of knowledge

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