ENGR 100W Wednesday March 3 Monday April 13 Wednesday April 15 Wednesday May 6 May 6 and May 13 Technical Proposal Assignment S2009 Dr Anagnos Groups formed Group Informal Environmental Proposal and Gantt Chart Informal oral presentations Group Formal Environmental Proposal Due Oral presentations will use final exam time if more time needed Objectives To demonstrate that you can Apply a scientific approach to answer questions about earth and the environment Synthesize ideas you encounter in multiple readings and presentations Express explain analyze develop and criticize ideas effectively Effectively use graphics in a document Construct effective persuasive arguments Deliver an effective oral presentation Grade Informal proposal Gantt Chart oral Formal Proposal written Formal Oral presentation 10 grade 15 grade 5 grade Assignment You work at EnvironSJ an environmental technology consulting company in San Jose California You may define the company any way you want large or small local or national family owned or corporate owned young for example two years old or mature 30years of experience specialized e g high tech waste or general etc You may define your position too e g owner President Vice President of Technology Director of Environmental Projects be creative You may even model EnvironSJ on a company you currently work for or have worked for in the past Your assignment is to write a formal proposal to a funding agency or to a client on an environmentally related topic You will need to research the topic and present a convincing and persuasive proposal Your proposal may recommend the implementation of an environmental process for use in production the purchase of a product for use by your client the design of a product for future sales the sale of this product to clients or another company etc You may describe a problem and present a solution or you may recommend that your client take advantage of an opportunity Whatever path you choose you need to establish the need for your recommendation and present clear steps for implementing your idea NOTE This is not a research paper While you will need to do research to support your arguments the point of this assignment is to write a proposal Selection of Topic Using the list of topics handed out today in class select a topic that is of interest to you A group of 3 to 4 people will be responsible for a particular proposal Guidelines for Informal Planning Proposal and Gantt Chart Your planning proposal should be a memo on letterhead to Thalia Anagnos you can design any type of letterhead you like but don t spend a lot of time on it It should include Purpose the overall group topic who your ultimate audience is and the individual parts that each member of the group will be preparing Page 1 ENGR 100W Technical Proposal Assignment S2009 Dr Anagnos A Gantt chart showing your planned activities for the final proposals with dates of completion A reference list with at least one reliable reference on each topic to be covered in the proposal The memo should be at least two pages of text single spaced plus the Gantt chart and the references Gantt Chart Build a Gantt chart of you planned activities for the final proposal The Gantt chart must give actual dates not week 1 2 3 instead April 15 April 20 etc The chart must have a title at the top and contain at least eight activities listed in a parallel format Find Research Develop Write Submit etc Examples of Gantt are found at http www ganttchart com Examples html You may use the Baseline Gantt Example Summary Gantt Example or the more sophisticated Dependencies Example If you have access to Project Manager or other software that is also acceptable You may hand draw the Gantt chart or use Excel or the table feature of Word to build your Gantt chart There are some free online utilities too Brief oral Presentation on April 15 The oral presentation will be informal to discuss the planning delegation and organization of the May 6 formal proposal Each member must speak Guidelines for Formal Environmental Proposal Formal report aimed at your client a CEO of a high tech company a mayor governor a small start up company etc well researched citing at least 2 4 references per person including two or more sources obtained through library research including electronic databases convincing and persuasive approximately 4 to 6 pages per person NOT INCLUDING VISUALS 12 point font 1inch margins double spaced Pages must be numbered At least one visual per person chart table photo drawing etc with proper labling and citation More detail on the specific sections of a formal proposal to come in a separate handout Guidelines for Formal Oral Presentation 1 Prepare an oral presentation of about 20 minutes per group 2 Use PowerPoint to support your presentation Remember a good rule for PowerPoint is about 1 slide per minute in addition to your title slide 3 Be concise and informative and think carefully about organization and transitions 4 The emphasis is on actual implementation of the proposal including numbered steps for the program cost task schedule your qualifications to do the proposal and advantages and disadvantages Start with a slide showing an overview of what you are going to cover and end with a short statement of why the proposal should be approved The whole point is to convince your clien to approve your proposal Page 2 ENGR 100W Technical Proposal Assignment S2009 Dr Anagnos Resources Markel M 2007 Technical Communication 8th edition Boston Bedford St Martin s Houp K W Pearsall T E Tebeaux E Dragga S 2006 Writing proposals and progress reports In Reporting Technical Information pp 427 471 New York Oxford University Press APA Documentation See sources on www engr sjsu edu tanagnos ENGR100W Note A REALLY COOL resource that helps you format references in APA format is http citationmachine net You type in the information and it formats it for you The only thing you need to do is add the hanging indent see example above when you paste it into your Word document Page 3