Total Time 1hr 15 minutes
# Review from Last Week (25 mins 10:20-10:45)
- Everybody go around the room with Heilmeier questions.
- Go up to Podium

# Goals and Outcomes Presentation (35 mins 10:45-11:20)
- This is the first section of your proposal[^1]
- This will be the first thing that people read, so honestly its one of the most crucial sections of your proposal
- It's the tablesetting for the rest of what you're going to talk about too. If you write something in your G&O, you better talk about it later
	- Tell em what you're gonna tell em, tell em, tell em what you told em
- So what goes into a G&O section?
	- First Paragraph(s)
		- First sentence
			- RESEARCH GOAL!!!!
			- The first sentence you write is critically important and should explicitly say what you're going to do, no bs
			- 'The goal of this research is to ...'
			- *Explain what you're trying to do, using absolutely no jargon*
			- One to three sentences. Be concrete. You should be clear in the goal, specific enough to seem feasible, but not too too narrow.
		- Rest of paragraph based writing
			- Briefly cover other  sections. How will you get to your goal, what will be done, and who will care?
			- This is basically an ad for your researcher. The reviewer of your proposal wants to know, if this project is approved and funded, what are they going to get.
				- What are they buying?
				- What is the product of your effort?
				- What will you achieve?

## Outcomes Based Approach (ME)
-" If we are successful, we will able to do the following:"
- 3-5 clear and concise **capabilities**.
- What is a capability? It's what we'll be able to DO after the research is successful, that we cannot do now. 
- One liner about the capability - rest of language explaining a little bit
- Good capabilities are clear, verifieable, and concise

## Hypothesis Based Approach (MSE)
- Some MSE professors really love hypothesis
- Similar to outcomes but instead of creating capabilites you're creating observable knowledge
- By doing X thing we can introduce Y change in Z behavior
	- Must be falsifiable and specific!
	- Then explain more specifically how you would measure such a thing, and briefly! why that change is posisble given the literature. 
		- You will talk more about this in SOTA and RA, so give a preview and not an expansive discussion

## Big Takeaways
1. **Clarity is Key** - State exacty what you want to, with as little fluff as possible.
	1. You are smart. You know a lot of words. But reading all of them is a lot of effort on the reader.
2. **Your reader is lazy** 
	1. Not a dig on professors because everyone here is working hard.
	2. But reading takes effort, and ultimately good writing and a good GO section should be easy to read. The easier it is to read your writing, the more of your meaning will be absorbed by the reader
3. **Tablesetting as a Narrative**
	1. Your GO should set up the rest of your proposal. Give the reader a preview and a sample of what you're going to talk about.
	2. Set things up, and get your GO almost like a prologue.

[[GO Presentation Outline]]

# Open Questions / Chit Chat (11:20 - 11:30)
- Goal for next week 
	- Have a rough draft of your goals and outcomes (~1 page) 
	- Keep working on other sections as you can. Keep reading and outining!

[^1]: Well technically it's preceded by your summary but whatever