Engineering Proposal
Assignment 4: Engineering Proposal (20% of final grade)
For this assignment you will produce a written proposal for a creative engineering innovation. Possibly building on work done in assignment 2 (the memo), you will identify a need for a specific engineering innovation, the design and production of which you will conceive and propose. Locate the need for this innovation within New York City. This will help you keep the proposal locally meaningful and facilitate field research.
In the written component of your proposal, introduce the need for the innovation or the need for an engineering-based improvement on an existing innovation. Describe the technical environment that is affected by or affects the innovation, while meaningfully conveying why this matters to you and your audience. Using research, discuss engineering innovations that have been proposed to meet similar needs but would not have worked, or innovations in effect that do not work or that could be improved upon. Write a technical description of your innovation. This will include graphics and spec sheets. Write the process of the innovation itself, and the process of building the innovation. Estimate cost, time, materials, labor and power, and any other necessary and important factors.
The challenge is to combine all of these factors in a manner that is not only thorough, but clear and engaging for those who will read it. Look for ways to draw your audience in, and strive to make your written work be attractive and evocative, as well as informative.
Length of written proposal: 7-10 pages
Due Dates:
11.19 – Topic Proposal (Posted for Peer Review)
12.04 – First Draft is due.
12/15 – Final Draft is due.
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