How to Select a Project The problem for your project can come from a number of different sources. If you have a job or an internship, your work supervisor might have a problem that is important to the organization you work for. If you have an undergraduate research position, your research advisor can be a source of project ideas. Or, you might have already taken a class or two with faculty members in your major and they might be willing to suggest a problem for you to work on. The best source of a project might be you though. Consider the things you are interested in and look for an application of calculus to them. If you can find one, you can probably build a project around that.

PROBLEM STATEMENT: Provide an exact statement of the problem as suggested by its author.

(c) Abstract. The abstract is a short summary of your project report it should not exceed one or two paragraphs. It should concisely state what you did, how you did it, and what conclusions you drew from the results. The abstract will be posted online so it should be well written. (d) Motivation. In this section you should give some background about why the problem is important to science or engineering. You should also describe the problem within its engineering or science context and provide the objective for the project. (e) Mathematical Description and Solution Approach. In this section, you should formulate the mathematical approach to solving the problem providing the relevant equa- tions, describing the mathematical tools you used and outline the procedure used. Do NOT simply list the equations use text between them to provide a clear understanding of them to the reader. (f) Discussion. Here, you should provide the results and discuss them. Did you meet the objective of the project? Were they as expected, or were they counter-intuitive? What implications do your results have to the problem at hand and to the field in general? (g) Conclusions and Recommendations. Give the basic conclusions of your work. This will be somewhat similar to what is in the abstract but with a little more detail for instance, including a summary of your interpretation of the results. You should also make a few recommendations such as things a person doing the same project might do differently or ideas for a new study that is suggested by your results. (h) Nomenclature. List the symbols that you use in your report. For each symbol, provide a description of what it represents and its units. Example: P Pressure kPa T Temperature "C v Velocity m/s V Voltage V All units used should belong to the same measuring system: Standard (English) or Metric (SI). Carefully check whether the units agree and are balanced on both sides of each equation. (i) References. Any work or ideas that you have taken from someone else should be cited directly in the text of your report. This includes any figures that you might download from the web. Do your best to find and cite the original source of information rather than the secondhand source. At the end of the report should be a list of references that were cited. Book and scientific journal references are strongly preferable to webpages. (j) Appendices. You might have detailed calculations, spreadsheets or computer pro- grams that were used to obtain your results but do not belong in the main report. If so, you should place these materials in appendices and refer to them as needed in the report