Proposal Outline
Due: Sunday October 18th @ 11:59 p.m.
You will complete this assignment in groups of two (or three). You and your partner will create a proposal that will identify the:
Problem in your company,
Company background,
Three possible options to resolve the problem,
Estimated staffing, timeline and budget needs to complete an analytical report NOT to implement the solutions (if approved).
Finally, you will be required to request authorization to complete an analytical report.
Remember, you are identifying a problem at a chosen company, proposing at least three possible solutions to address that problem, providing an estimated cost for researching the solutions, and finally requesting to analyze the possible solutions in the form of an analytical report. The problem should be related to a technology or technical process that is used at the company.
Your proposal outline is to be written as if you are currently working in the company. It should provide your workplace supervisor (use your TA) with a clear sense of the purpose, direction and content of the proposed analytical report. The proposal outline will not make a recommendation. You are encouraged to identify possible options in the proposal but to actually make a recommendation in the proposal, prior to completing your research, would be premature and call into question your professional judgment.
The outline of your proposal should be no more than 250 words in length. Word count does not include your “front matter” (e.g. title page, table of contents) or your “back matter” (e.g. bibliography and appendices.) In addition, word count will not include any text that is represented in a table of graph.
The bibliography will be a list of the sources you used in your research. You MUST properly cite in the text where you use your sources. You must use a minimum of two of the following types of sources:
Note: All engineering students will use IEEE citation format. All other students will use APA citation form
