Request for proposals
for 2008 |
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| DATE LINE: Friday December 14, 2008 at 5:00pm |
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The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) is a company sponsored program at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. IAP seeks to foster active participation of undergraduate students by involving them in research and development projects in electrical and computer technologies and their applications. This is the Request for Proposals for 2008. Projects supported should start in January 2008 and end by December of the same year. Professors of the Electrical & Computer Engineering department and representatives from the IAP member companies are invited to submit proposals..
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- Proposals should be submitted no later than 5:00 PM of the due date. After that time the electronic submission will stop accepting proposals automatically.
- Each proposal should be in accordance with the objectives of this program. Information about IAP objectives and goals can be found at http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~iap
- At least one faculty member and one undergraduate student must participate in each project.
- The project's budget should not exceed $2,500.00.
- Proposals should be up to 5 pages long and must be submitted as a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the IAP website. Click here to submit a proposal
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- Cover Page with Project title, author’s name and an abstract/executive summary
- Research Background and Problem Statement
- Objectives
- Methodology
- Time schedule (January - December 2008)
- Skills developed by students during the project and corresponding activities
- Metrics to Judge Project Success
- Bibliography/References
- Budget justification
- References
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| Click here to download a sample proposal template. It is compulsory for all projects supported by IAP to |
- submit a report by the end of the project in December,
- give an oral presentation at the IAP Fall meeting,
- present a poster at the IAP's Spring meeting,
- students and Faculty are expected to attend IAP sponsored seminars and meetings through the year, which include, but is not limited to, the Spring Meeting, poster preparation seminar, resume seminar, oral presentation seminar and IAP Annual Conference.
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| IAP companies are particularly interested in giving undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary projects allowing them to develop their teamwork skills and give them a broader view of engineering. |
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| We strongly encourage the participation of female students in the projects. Projects will be evaluated by their: |
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| Projects will be evaluated by their: |
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- Technical merit
- Experiences provided to undergraduate students
- Feasibility of completion in one year
- Budget reasonability
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The projects must be performed by UPRM undergraduate students. IAP Funds can be used for equipment, materials and undergraduate student salaries. No funds can be provided for travel to conferences. The IAP board reserves rights to revise the award depending on available funds and resources. IAP funds can not be used for faculty salaries. Student salaries are fixed to $6.00/hour for up to 10 hours per week. IAP is not intended to support multi-year efforts. General purpose equipment such as computers, scanners, printers, etc. are not supported by IAP funds.
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