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Project Guidelines and Recommendations
A presentation poster is required for both in-person and virtual project entries.
1. Project ID and Title
The following should be included:
Project Title
Name
School
City, State, Country
2. Introduction - What is your engineering problem and goal?
The following should be included:
Project Title
Name
School
City, State, Country
2. Introduction - What is your engineering problem and goal?
- What problem were you trying to solve? Include a description of your engineering goal.
- Explain what is known or has already been done to solve this problem, including work on which you may build. You may include a brief review of relevant literature.
- If this is a continuation project, a brief summary of your prior work is appropriate here. Be sure to distinguish your previous work from this year’s project.
- What did you do? How did you design and produce your prototype? If there is a physical prototype, you may want to include pictures or designs of the prototype.
- If you tested the prototype, what were your testing procedures? What data did you collect and how did you collect that data?
- DO NOT include a separate list of materials.
- How did your prototype meet your engineering goal?
- If you tested the prototype, provide a summary of testing data tables and figures that illustrate your results.
- Include relevant statistical analysis of the data.
- What do these results mean? You may compare your results with theories, published data, commonly held beliefs, and/or expected results.
- Did any questions or problems arise that you were not expecting? Were these problems caused by uncontrolled events? How did you address these?
- How is your prototype an improvement or advancement over what is currently available?
- Did your project turn out as you expected?
- What application(s) do you see for your work?
- This section should not exceed one page. Limit your list to the most important references.
- List the references/documentation used which were not of your own creation (i.e., books, journal articles).