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2. Project Planning and ProposalDevelopment: Case Study I

Dr. Kazuhiro SaitouAssociate Professor

Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Michigan

2.1 Background

2.2 Information gathering

2.3 Project planning

2.4 Proposal development

2.5 Proposal submission

2.6 Concluding remarks


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2.1 Background

Project life cycleInformation gathering

Program announcement

Merit review criteria

Project planning

Idea, idea, idea

Identifying what, why, how

Proposal development

Project summary

Project description

budget

Proposal submission

2. Project Planning and Proposal Development I


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Background

Structural analysis Simulation of deformation

under loads

Structural synthesis Optimization of product

geometry using structuralanalysis


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Background

Project scope Method for synthesis of multi-component

structural assembly considering:

Structural performances

Manufacturing and assembly costs Software implementation of the method



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Background

NSF CAREER Award Faculty Early Career Development Program

5-year with $400K

Emphasize integration of research and

education Industry matching funds to encourage

industry collaboration



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Background

Project summary 1999 competition (rules slightly vary)

(4+1) year project with ~$420K

NSF CAREER Award + contract with Toyota

1 MS and 3 PhD students in 4 years



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Outline

Background Information gathering

Project planning

Proposal development Proposal submission

Concluding remarks



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2.2 Information gathering

Program announcement Email news letters

Emails from College

Internet resources*


* sample materials in appendices 2.1 2.6


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Information gathering

Merit review criteria (used by review panels) What is the intellectual merit?

How important within/outside of the field?

PI(s) qualified?

Original and creative?

Well planned?

Access to necessary resources?



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Information gathering

Merit review criteria (used by review panels) What are the broader impacts?

Promotes teaching training, and learning?

Enhance infrastructure of research and

education? Disseminated broadly?

Benefit to society?



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Outline


Project planning


Concluding remarks



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Project planning

Idea, idea, idea!! Problem must be new and important

Approach must be innovative and effective

Must meet merit review criteria

Intellectual merit?

Broader impacts?



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Project planning

Idea, idea, idea!! :: My case Structural products are made of numerous parts

Product shape decomposed to part shapes

Small parts need many joints that waken structure

Large parts are strong but too costly to produce

What is optimal decomposition?



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Project planning

Identify What-Why-How What are you going to do? (Objective)

Why it is important? (Motivation)

intellectual merit

broader impacts Never done or not well done before

How are you going to do? (Approach)

Research questions

Approach to research questions



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Project planning

Identify What-Why-How :: My case What are you going to do?

Synthesis of multi-component structural assembly viadecomposition, considering

Structural performances

Manufacturing and assembly costs


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Project planning

Identify What-Why-How :: My case Why it is important?

Bad decomposition affects subsequent part design;cost of re-work is enormous

Best practice not known for hybrids, fuel cells, andelectric vehicles



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Project planning

Identify What-Why-How :: My case How are you going to do?

1) transform the problem as graph decomposition

2) solve by using structural analysis and optimization

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Project planning

Literature review Goal: Prove your research is indeed in blank

area

Utilize on-line resources

Be careful -- faulty statements on the state-of-the-art can kill the proposal

your work

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Project planning

Literature review :: My case Structural synthesis

Many papers on single-part structure

Many papers on multi-part structure with given partboundary

No papers on synthesis of part boundary consideringstructural performances

Design for manufacturing and assembly

Many papers on improving given part designs for easy

manufacturing Many papers on improving given part designs for easy

assembly

No papers on synthesis of part boundary consideringmanufacturing and assembly costs



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Project planning

Industry collaboration Encouraged by CAREER via matching

fund system (existed in 1999; notanymore)

Industry endorsement letter can be inAppendix

Works if practical case studies aredesired

IP issues among university, government,and company must be sorted out inadvance. Who will own the rights toinventions?



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Project planning

Industry collaboration :: My case Approached to Toyota after 1st attempt

Submitted in July 1998.

Proposal turned down in March 1999.

Contracted with Toyota right after 2nd

attempt Submitted in July 1999.

Proposal got through in March 2000. Endorsement letter for the 2nd submission



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Outline


Project planning


Concluding remarks



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2.4 Proposal development

Required contents (from GPG):

1. Cover sheet

2. Project summary (1 pg)

3. Table of contents

4. Project description (+ results form prior NSF support) (15 pgs)

5. References cited

6. Biographical sketches (2 page max)

7. Budget

8. Current and pending support9. Facilities, equipment, and other resources

10. Special information and supplementary documentation

11. Appendices



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Project summary (1 page) First thing reviewers read

Self-contained summary of proposal

Must include:

statement of objective method to be employed

separate statements of (1) intellectualmerit and (2) broader impacts

Proposals that do not separately

address both merit review criteria willbe returned without review.



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Project description (15 pages) Typical format

Section 1: Objective and motivation (what + why & how)

Section 2: Literature review (why)

Section 3: Proposed approach (how)

Section 4: Preliminary results (how)

Section 5: Schedule and milestones (how)

An anonymous NSF Program Director saidIn page 1, tell me what, how, and why. In

the rest of 14 pages, convince me that I cantrust you.



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Project description (15 pages) :: My case Objective

Synthesis of multi-component structural assembly

Motivation

Bad decomposition affects subsequent part design; costof re-work is enormous

Best practice not known for hybrids, fuel cells, andelectric vehicles

Literature review

No papers on synthesis of part boundary consideringstructural performances

No papers on synthesis of part boundary consideringmanufacturing and assembly costs



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Project description (15 pages) :: My case Proposed approach

1) transform the problem as graph decomposition

2) solve by using structural analysis and optimization



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Final polish-up Ask a senior colleague in somewhat distant area

to review

A anonymous multi-million $ NSF proposal winner

saidIn the end, I asked a high school senior toread the proposals to make sure logic is perfectlyclear



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Outline


Project planning


Concluding remarks



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2.5 Proposal submission

Proposal submission inhard copy form is rare

Electronic submissionmore common



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Outline


Project planning


Concluding remarks



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2.6 Concluding remarks

A to Z for proposal development in a nutshell Detailed guideline and clear review criteria

Good proposal = excellent idea + what-why-how

Plan well, then writing is a snap



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