engineering majors and professions

ENGL106 – 107 Summer 2021

Course Project

Deliverable 1

Proposal and References (10%)

Group Submission

Group Number:

Date:

Score

Student 1:

ID:

Student 2:

ID:

Student 3:

ID:

Task

In their groups, students decide on a main topic (successful inventions and innovations, engineering companies, engineering majors and professions, inventors or scientists that have left their marks on today’s world with their remarkable ideas and achievements). They do some research and choose their sub-topics – two entrepreneurs, two companies, two jobs, etc. After these two steps, the students are to prepare their Proposal. The Proposal includes 4 pages:
· Page 1 Title Page

· ACM Logo
· Course Title
· Semester : Summer 2021
· Prepared By: Students’ names
· Submitted To: Instructor’s name
· Chosen Topic
· Two Sub-Topics

· Page 2: Reasons/Justification

· One paragraph about the reasons for choosing the main topic and the two sub-topics (250 words minimum) (Times New Roman, 12 Pt, double spaced, justified)

· Page 3: Research References

· APA Style end-of-text referencing (Minimum two sources per student)

· Page 4: Conclusion
· One paragraph on expected benefits of doing this project/learning about these topics. (200 words minimum) (Times New Roman, 12 Pt, double spaced, justified)

Grading Criteria for Project Proposal

Criteria

Very Good

15 – 20

Good

10 – 15

Satisfactory

6 – 9

Poor

2 – 5

Grade

Proposal Overview

Presents a clear and insightful description of the project with evidence of solid reasoning.

Presents a description of the project with evidence of some reasoning.

Presents a haphazard or compiled description of the project with lack of reasoning.

No proper project description available/copied from the project document/lacks focus and reasoning on the project.

Reason of Choice

Reason of choice indicates awareness, a strong commitment and solid research.

Reason of choice indicates awareness and good amount of research.

Reason of choice indicates little or no awareness and no satisfactory research.

Reason of choice lacks awareness and research.

APA Referencing and formatting

Demonstrates correct in-text and end-of-text references. Text is aligned with APA formatting (Times New Roman, 12, double spaced, and justified)

Demonstrates in-text and end-of-text referencing with slight mistakes. Text is aligned with APA formatting with very few mishaps.

Demonstrates lack of knowledge in referencing in general. APA format is somewhat applied.

Demonstrates no referencing within or end of the text. APA format is not followed.

Conclusion

Conclusion shows clear understanding of and a detailed research on the topics studied. It shows detailed thought process for expected benefits of this project.

Conclusion shows understanding of and a regular research on the topics studied. It shows some thought process for the expected benefits of this project.

Conclusion shows some understanding and research on the topics studied. It does not show satisfactory thought process on the expected benefits of this project.

Conclusion shows unsatisfactory understanding and research on the topics studied. It lacks any kind of thought process on the expected benefits of this project.

Mechanics

Both texts are well written and free of error.

Both texts are well written with few errors on language mechanics

Both texts are written with numerable errors on language mechanics.

Both texts are rambling with a clear lack of language mechanics knowledge.

TOTAL:

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