Obsidian/2.1 GSA Meeting Notes/QSG 2025 Sprnig/2025-02-14 - Goals and Outcomes.md

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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 proposal1
  • 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.

Open Questions / Chit Chat (11:20 - 11:30)


  1. Well technically it's preceded by your summary but whatever ↩︎