For this assignment you will produce a written proposal for a creative engineering innovation and an oral presentation of the same proposal in collaboration with four to six other students, as a team. I will designate the members of your team. In your team, identify a need for a specific engineering innovation, the design and production of which you will conceive and propose. Locate the need for this innovation on the City College campus. This will help you keep the proposal locally meaningful and facilitate field research. Topics will be determined in class and are subject to my approval.

In the written component of your proposal, introduce the need for the innovation or the need for an engineering-based improvement on an existing innovation. Describe the technical environment that is affected by or affects the innovation. Discuss engineering innovations that have been proposed to meet similar needs but would not have worked, or innovations in effect that do not work or that could be improved upon.  Write a technical description of your innovation.  This will include graphics and spec sheets.  Write the process of the innovation itself, and the process of building the innovation.  Estimate cost, time, materials, labor and power, and any other necessary and important factors.

In the oral presentation component of your proposal, you can use charts, pictures, videos, graphs and handouts. You can use the dry-erase or chalk boards.  You can manufacture your own poster-board-style presentation materials. Every member of your team will participate in the presentation. Specify what each member of the team did for the project.

Determine among yourselves who will be responsible for which project components. Identify individual strengths and work with those.  Who is your team leader?  Who is the best speaker?  Who is most familiar with PowerPoint?  Who is the best writer?  You will produce your own work at home but turn it into your group in class-workshop sessions to have your material commented on, proofread, edited, changed and so on by your team.

Format: APA style, Microsoft Word, appropriate size 12 font, standard margins, double-spaced

Length: 7-10 pages

Final draft due: Monday April 29, 2019

Dates of oral presentations: Monday April 15 and Wednesday April 17, 2019