This is a different document from your proposal.
Your proposal was written before you built anything, addressed to me, to get the project approved. Your final report is written after, for three readers: engineering students interested in your project, the customer who receives it, and you a year from now when you’ve forgotten the details.
Imagine handing your project to someone who has to build, use, and maintain it without ever talking to you. Write what they need: what it is, what’s in it, how it works, and how you know it works. Someone following your report should be able to build it and get the same test results.
Include all of these
Figures. Include at least three, each labeled: a photograph of what you built, a diagram of how it works (a block diagram, schematic, dimensioned drawing, or CAD view, made with software), and a plot or table of your test results next to the numbers from your proposal.
Minimum two pages of text, plus figures. Submit one PDF.
How it’s graded
| Criterion | Full | Most | Some | Little |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General description (10) | A non-engineer could say what it is and does after one paragraph | Clear to an engineer | Vague | Missing |
| Bill of materials (20) | Quantities, dimensions, part numbers or sources; someone could buy it | Complete list, some details missing | A rough list | Missing |
| How it works (20) | Step by step; a reader could follow the mechanism or logic without the object | Mostly clear, one gap | Hand-waving | Missing |
| Testing and results (25) | Each requirement measured, the numbers compared with the proposal’s constraints and criteria, and the tests described well enough to repeat | Measurements present; the comparison or the procedure is thin | “It works” with one number | No results |
| Status and future work (10) | What works, what’s missing, and what it would take to finish, all specific | Two of the three | Vague | Missing |
| What changed from the proposal, and why (20) | Every deviation named, with the reason and what it cost or saved | Changes named, reasons thin | “Some things changed” | Missing, or claims nothing changed when it clearly did |
| Figures (20) | Photograph, how-it-works diagram, and results plot or table, all legible and labeled | All three, one weak | One or two | None |
Grading and the AI policy are in the syllabus.