Project Title

Group Members Names

School
 Abstract
(200 words max) - describes and summarizes your research/study

A good abstract serves the function of “selling you work. It is critical that you can write a
complete and concise description of your work to entice potential readers (and judges) into
learning more about your project. As you work on writing an abstract for your project, use the
following checklist to ensure the following points:

Categories Questions to consider Check-off

Motivation Why do we care about the problem and the results?

Describe the importance of your work, the difficulty of the area, and the impact it
might have if successful.

Problem What problem are you trying to solve?

statement
What is the scope of your work (a generalized approach, or for a specific situation)?

***Be careful not to use too much jargon. In some cases it is appropriate to put the
problem statement before the motivation, but usually this only works if most readers
already understand why the problem is important.

Approach How did you go about solving or making progress on the problem?

Did you use simulation, analytic models, prototype construction, or analysis of field
data for an actual product?

What was the extent of your work (did you look at one application program or a
hundred programs in twenty different programming languages?)

What important variables did you control, ignore, or measure?

Results What's the result of the project?

Briefly describe the data collected from doing the project. Put the result there, in
numbers. Avoid vague, hand-waving results such as "very", "small", or "significant."

Conclusions What are the implications of your results/project?

- Is it going to change the world (unlikely), be a significant "win", be a nice
hack, or simply serve as a road sign indicating that this path is a waste of time
(all of the previous results are useful).
- Are your results general, potentially generalizable, or specific to a particular
case?
- What might have affected the progress/results of your project?
- Moving forward, how would you expand on your current project? What
would you do differently? What would be a good follow-up study based on
your project results?
 Background Information/Literature Review
- See your proposal

Investigative Question/Driving Question

Scientific:
Purpose
Hypothesis (must be testable)
- Independent variable:
- Dependent variable:
- Controlled variables(at least 2)

Engineering:
Purpose / Problem:
Criteria (explain how each is relevant to project):
Constraints (explain how each is relevant to project):

Experiment Design
o Materials (May be a bullet point list BUT be specific & explain quantity)

Materials Quantity (unit)

o Methods / Procedures: (or Phases & Prototype Description: (How you are
setting up your experiment, description of conditions, timing and number of trials
measurements) ****Critical
Use the appropriate checklist below to ensure you have included all necessary information in
your procedure/phases
 ***As you carried out your project, you might have realized that your original procedure (from
Proposal) lacked many details. Make sure you add those details to this procedure to reflect what
you actually did during the project.

ENGINEERING - What makes for GOOD procedure (not necessary in order)? Yes / No?

1. Did you include your preliminary design / prototype - Sketches, drawings, models

2 Did you include a description for each of the phases of the project?

3. Have you included a step-by-step list of all procedures?

4. Have you included a process of how you will evaluate success (how success is measure and
analyzed)

5. The ultimate test: Can another individual duplicate the experiment based on the
experimental procedure you have written?

6. Have you completed several preliminary designs?

SCIENTIFIC - What makes for GOOD experimental procedure? Yes / No?

1. Have you included a description and size for all experimental and control groups?

2. Have you included a step-by-step list of all procedures?

3. Have you described how to change the independent variable and how to measure that
change?

4. Have you explained how the controlled variables will be maintained at a constant value?

5. Have you specified how many times you intend to repeat the experiment (should be at least
three times), and is that number of repetitions sufficient to give you reliable data?

6. Have you included a plan to analyze your data (what data you plan to collect, how you plan to
analyze it, etc.,)

7. The ultimate test: Can another individual duplicate the experiment based on the
experimental procedure you have written?

*** Is it apparent in your procedure what are the different variables (independent, dependent,
control variables)?

Results
o Data Visualization

● Tables, graphs, figures, observations (include title, labels and a brief

summary)
 ● Calculations (How will you calculate results / what formula / approach /
equations are you using? Explain via language)

O Data Analysis (Conclusion, Discussion & Evaluation)

● States whether or not results [do/do not] [to some extent] support original
hypothesis/research investigation; refers to specific data as evidence for
support
● Uses knowledge of broader scientific concept/model to explain in a
convincing way
why or why not the data support hypothesis/research question; discuss other
concepts that may influence results
● Specifically addresses sources of error; poses realistic solutions; indicates,
justifies improvements for future implications

Bibliography/References