1. Proposal & Leadership Documents
Chemical Engineering 477
Winter Semester 2018
Dr. N. Stanley Harding

2. Proposal Writing Purpose Length Required for Each Experiment
Convince “boss” you can accomplish task
Length
Relatively short (2-3 pages)
Required for Each Experiment
One Proposal per Team
All members should participate

3. Proposal Content Heading “Re” Objective
To and From (Include all team member names)
Date
“Re”
Concise title of project
Objective
One sentence description of overall project
Supporting sentences as needed; sub-objectives

4. Proposal Content (Con’t.)
Introduction/Background
Summary of problem statement
Literature review
How is your problem related to industrial applications
Theory behind project
Relevant equations and variable descriptions

5. Proposal Content (Con’t.)
Experimental Design
Apparatus
Detailed description of facility; picture/schematic
Method
Description of methodology used to solve problem
Table of experimental variables and ranges
Number of tests; order of testing
Output (measurement) variables listed

6. Proposal Content (Con’t.)
Results
Method used to reduce raw data
Data analysis sequence
NOT expected results, just method to get from raw data to results
Safety
Potential hazards
Safe startup/shutdown procedure
Emergency procedures

7. Leadership Report Purpose Completed for each experiment
Help team members become better engineers!
Sorry, but you’re not perfect!
Completed for each experiment
Completed for each team member

8. Leadership Report (Con’t.)
Content
To Each Partner (2 paragraphs)
Two leadership traits they did well
One leadership trait which could be improved
From you to ME
Summary of each partners comments
How you are going to improve one leadership trait
Can be ed or printed

9. QUESTIONS