Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Work directly with an industry sponsor on an applied research project.
• Solicit and obtain and industry sponsor.
• Liaise and communicate effectively with the industry sponsor.
• Identify a topic area of mutual interest to the sponsor and the student.
• Develop a preliminary discussion document for submission to the industry sponsor.
• Research the topic area of interest.
• Assess current practices and standards employed by the industry.
• Perform a literature review to determine state of the art and future trends in this field.
• Submit a formal proposal.
• Develop a project proposal following standard proposal format guidelines.
• Apply technical writing skills to ensure clarity, good grammar, correct punctuation, proper mechanics and accurate documentation.
• Perform proposed revisions as specified by industry and/or faculty.
• Prepare an interim progress report.
• Communicate with industry and faculty on a regular basis.
• Review overall current project progress.
• Submit an interim progress report and carry out necessary project modifications as required.
• Submit a formal industry sponsored technical report.
• Develop a final report following standard report format guidelines.
• Apply technical writing skills to ensure clarity, good grammar, correct punctuation, proper mechanics and accurate documentation.
• Document project methodology to enable independent repetition and verification of research.
• Record project observations/results in a logical and concise manner.
• Evaluate/discuss results and information collected.
• Draw effective and meaningful conclusions from the research conducted.
• Provide feasible recommendations/solutions to improve, correct, mitigate or revise current industry practices.

Effective as of Fall 2007