Project Proposal
The project proposal is limited to 4 pages, including figures, tables, and references, in 12-point Times New Roman on letter-size pages with 1-inch margins. It should include motivation and significance, a brief review of the state of the art, the proposed technical approach, anticipated outcome, and one executive summary slide.
Topics must be relevant to amorphous materials. If more topics are proposed than available lecture slots, we will use a voting system.
Term Paper and Final Presentation
The paper is limited to 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references, in 12-point Times New Roman on letter-size pages with 1-inch margins. It should include motivation and significance, current state of the art, research methodology, results and discussion, and conclusions. Document templates are posted on Canvas.
Evaluation criteria
For proposals and papers:
- Intellectual merits: 75%
- Presentation: 25% (Evaluation emphasizes soundness, depth, thoroughness, inventiveness, logical coherence, clarity, and conciseness.)
For the in-class presentation:
- Timing: 20%
- Presentation: 40%
- Intellectual merits: 40%
