1. Feasibility

3. Project Selection
Choose criteria that interest you / the team, as positives.
Just for example, you came up with:
A. Good match to team skills
B. Technically complex
C. Creative
D. Market Potential
E. Industry sponsorship available
Rank their importance relative to each other. The book uses this scale
1=equal, 3=moderately more important, 5=strongly more important,
… 9=extremely more important.
It is very subjective.

4. A B C D E
Geometric
mean
Weight
gm/sum
A – skills 1 5 3
2.954
0.47
B – complex
1/5
1/3
0.644
0.10
C – creative
0.725
0.12
D – market
1.380
0.22
E – sponsor
0.582
0.09
sum = 6.285
And suppose these three projects are being considered
1 – IEEE robotic competition
2 – Industry sponsored project to design new test protocol
3 – Design a thing to help people find lost items

5. Then for each criterion use the same method to rate the projects against each other
1 – IEEE robotic competition
2 – Industry sponsored project to design new test protocol
3 – Design a thing to help people find lost items
e.g. for criterion E, the possibility of industry sponsorship 1 2 3
Geometric
mean
Weight
gm/sum
1 - robots
1/7
1/3
0.362
0.08
2 – new test 7 5
3.271
0.73
3 - thing
1/5
0.843
0.19
sum = 4.476
Do that for all the criteria.

6. Think carefully about how you feel about that.
And put everything in a table
weight 1
robots 2
new test 3
thing
A – skills
0.47
0.41
0.23
0.36
B – complex
0.10
0.51
0.19
0.30
C – creative
0.12
0.40
0.29
0.31
D – market
0.22
0.00
0.90
E - sponsor
0.09
0.08
0.73
0.25
0.45
So it looks as though designing a new thing for finding lost items is your chosen project.
But then –
Think carefully about how you feel about that.

7. Needs Identification
In other words, you must be absolutely sure you know what the problem is before trying to solve it.

9. The Needs Statement

10. The Objectives Statement

11. Research Survey!
Are you reinventing the wheel?
Provide a summary of your research.

12. Sometimes helpful: An
Objective
Tree