CS4490z/4460z Project Proposal

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Note: The Project Proposal must be signed by your supervisor(s) to indicate approval of the project content.

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Your project proposal should include at least the following:

• Title page
• title of project
• whether it is a software project or a research project
• your name and email address
• name of your supervisor(s)
• signature of the supervisor(s), indicating approval of the proposal

• Introduction
• brief introduction to the subject area (to set your project into context)
• motivation for the project (i.e. why is your project being done?)
• Problem Statement
• Proposed Solution
• Requirements regarding the use of specialized equipment or unusual software (if any)
• Timetable:  This should include milestones in your project, including some breakdown of the steps involved in researching and completing your project, with approximate dates for each milestone.
• References (if applicable)

For a research project, the proposal should also contain:

• Plan for your progress reports: What do you plan to achieve by each progress report milestone?
  
  For example:
• progress report 1: literature search
• progress report 2: literature review and terminology
• progress report 3: draft report

Approximate length:

All projects are different, but an approximate length of 2 to 4 pages (not including Title Page) is suggested. (This is not a hard and fast rule; it is just to give you an idea of the level of detail required for this document.)