University of Arizona The Sparkyville Project Paper

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Successful completion of this assignment gives you the opportunity to demonstrate the following competency toward your class grade: technical communication.

Technical Communication: Appropriately use equations and/or figures/tables in the context of a written document such that:

  • equations are numbered and variables defined
  • figures/tables are captioned and explicitly referred to in the textDescription and procedure:The submission must be a written document regarding your team’s Sparkyville project. This should be a cohesive, narrative, professional document. Reviewing the slides from class on Written Communicationwill help you fulfill the grading rubric’s requirements. The format and content of the documentation is described in detail below.Format:
    •  Title Page: Project name, Team number/name, names of all team members who participated
    •  Document should be written as a formal technical document with appropriately formatted sectionheadings (i.e. bold and/or underline).
    •  Sections to include: Introduction about the project, description of the team’s solution, energysource, references Content:

Introduction
o Introduce the “Sparkyville” project to someone who is not from EGR 102 and the end

result that your team plans to obtain. Write about the project constraints and budget. Your team’s solution

o Includegeneralinformationaboutyourteam’sdevice
o Includeyourteam’sdecisionmatrix(thiscanbesharedamongteammembersandcanbe

the same decision matrix used in PA: Design Review Prep), label the table correctly and

discuss the different design possibilities
o Comparetheteam’sdevicewithatleastoneotherdesignfromthedecisionmatrix.Make

an evidence-based claim about why your device is better than the other design.o Writeashortdescriptionofhowyouconstructedyourteam’sdevice/prototype.

 Energy source
o Writeabouttherenewableenergysource(i.e.water,wind,orsun)yourteamisusing,

include a reference from your research
o Include an equation of the renewable energy source your team is using. Number the

equation and define all the variables. Discuss the theoretical power available from this

source. References:

o Includeallreferencesused(referencesshouldalsobecitedinthetextofthereport).1

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o UseanappropriateIEEEcitationformat