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Research Proposal
GSOE9010 Assessment
Format A research proposal, submitted as a PDF document, performed individually.
Motivation
The research proposal is the major individual assignment in this course, and aims to bring together in a single document many of
the ideas covered in the lectures and workshops. Students continuing on to undertake a Research Project in their MEngSc program
can use it as a way of developing a proposal to show to potential supervisors. Students who have been exempted from the
Research Project can use it as practice for developing research proposals in an industry setting. Whichever focus you take, the
document must satisfy the requirements described below.
The proposal should be developed by you individually, based on work carried out by you over the course of the semester to think
about an engineering research problem in your own discipline.
Researchers frequently need to write applications for funds to carry out research projects. A typical research funding application
would contain: a high-level introduction, some context for the work, a description of the project, and a budget. Your research
proposal will be structured somewhat like such an application, but without the need to provide a budget or budget justification.
What is required?
During the semester, you should identify an engineering research problem in your discipline that you find interesting, and plan a
research project to investigate a solution. This research problem should not be related to your team project topic - you must
select an independent research topic.
You must first select one of two scenarios for your research proposal:
1. A proposal for a 12-month research project to be undertaken at a university, e.g. a masters thesis project. The ‘target
audience’ is your desired academic supervisor (however, you must write in a way that a non-expert could also
understand your proposal). Assume they have many students applying to do projects with them and you need to
convince them to choose you.
2. A proposal for a 12-month research project to be undertaken in an industrial setting. The target audience is your boss
(however, you must write in a way that a non-expert could also understand your proposal). Assume you are working in
a company in an R&D team that has a certain budget for projects for the year. You want to convince your boss that
your project idea should go ahead.