diff --git a/300s School/ME 3100 - Engineering Research and Leadership Management/1. Goals and Outcomes.md b/300s School/ME 3100 - Engineering Research and Leadership Management/1. Goals and Outcomes.md index 333bea61..279c17d7 100644 --- a/300s School/ME 3100 - Engineering Research and Leadership Management/1. Goals and Outcomes.md +++ b/300s School/ME 3100 - Engineering Research and Leadership Management/1. Goals and Outcomes.md @@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ Examples of an outcomes written to varying degrees. **Goal:** The goal of this research is to generate artificial light. -|**Quality**|**Outcome**| -|---|---| -|Good|Use electricity to generate incandescent light from a wire filament.| -|Vague|Use electricity to make light.| -|Unmeasurable|Understand how incandescent light can be made with electricity.| -|Verbose|Use AC or DC electricity to generate light as a result of heating a wire filament to sufficiently high temperatures.| -|Not goal related|Determine the relationship between filament temperature and the characteristic of the light emitted.| +| **Quality** | **Outcome** | +| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| Good | Use electricity to generate incandescent light from a wire filament. | +| Vague | Use electricity to make light. | +| Unmeasurable | Understand how incandescent light can be made with electricity. | +| Verbose | Use AC or DC electricity to generate light as a result of heating a wire filament to sufficiently high temperatures. | +| Not goal related | Determine the relationship between filament temperature and the characteristic of the light emitted. | How many outcomes should you have? You want the reviewer to be able to remember your outcomes --- they should be able to recall your outcomes throughout the proposal--- so don't make too many, but don't make too few since that runs the risk of suggesting either a narrow scope for the research or overly broad outcomes that don't define the research sufficiently. Between three and five is about right. Less than three is too few --- the reviewer wonders what else you might be able accomplish. More than five is too much --- the reviewer thinks that you are over committing yourself. My preference is three outcomes, and there is room for more if you absolutely need them.