This section should be no more than three (3) pages in the format provided, including a small quantity of graphics that are the most useful to conveying your background knowledge.\u00a0 It is a summary of the Individual Background Research B-Sheets compiled in Appendix A of your Technical Archive Document (TAD). \u00a0This section is extremely important and approval of the PUD will not be given until the team is judged to have a sufficient understanding of the problem domain in terms of content described here.<\/p>\n
Note that the next section of the PUD will get into specifics of engineering requirements as defined by you by translating information of needs and wants from your customer into engineering requirements; engineering requirements should not be covered here.<\/p>\n
The Background Research Findings<\/em> section must demonstrate your cumulative understanding of the problem domain and <\/em>beyond and outside the problem domain (near-field and far-field discovery)<\/strong>, not the problem itself (that is captured in the Project Overview<\/em>, Current Situation<\/em>, and then, as defined in engineering terms, in the Engineering Requirements<\/em> later).\u00a0 The remainder of this section should be concise text including paragraphs and, as appropriate, bullet-point lists.\u00a0 It should cover highlights from the cumulative individual background research work of all team members.\u00a0 It is up to your team how you want to organize the content; doing a good job of organizing it will take some good thinking from multiple team members.\u00a0 Given the anticipated length of this section (more than a page or so), you should use subsections to organize groupings of content here (as long as you have two or more; one subheading\/heading makes no sense).<\/strong>\u00a0 Use paragraph style \u201cHeading 3\u201d for subheadings; getting numbering to work in Google Docs is far from straightforward, so samples are included for you to use (make a copy of one of those provided if more are needed).\u00a0 There should be at least one, more likely 2-3, really important graphics worthy of inclusion.\u00a0 However, leave most of the graphics to the B-Sheets in TAD Appendix A to be included with this document.\u00a0 Remember, the strict page limit with graphics is three (3) pages!\u00a0 And no adjusting font or paragraph formatting to cheat that!\u00a0 In regard to the bio\/nature-inspired discovery work, unless you really found something plausibly relevant and\/or useful, do not cover that here<\/strong> (but do keep it in the TAD Appendix A pages). \u00a0Reiterating from earlier-section guidance, for the last time here, to help you place graphics in Google Docs<\/em> with captions that remain attached, a link to a source having a figure+caption placeholder, a table+caption placeholder, and instructions for their use is linked via the comment on the cover page along with the link to this guidance.<\/p>\n This section should begin with this sentence that directs the reader to additional details of background research.\u00a0 The template does so by providing a sentence \u201cThe full details of the raw background research may be found in Appendix A of the attached Technical Archive Document (TAD).\u00a0 Highlights are summarized in the subsections that follow.\u201d\u00a0 Keep the sentence as is then begin writing in the next paragraph where it says \u201cSTART HERE-BACKGROUND\u201d.<\/p>\n Conclude this section with a brief paragraph focused on what you learned<\/strong>, overall and\/or most importantly, and how (with specifics, not generalities) this learning\/information will influence your work moving forward.\u00a0 The template provides a lead-in sentence to this paragraph, stating \u201cThe most important elements of what we learned, and how that will influence our work moving forward, is summarized as follows.\u201d\u00a0 Keep that sentence and then add to it where it says by selecting \u201cCONTINUE FINAL PARAGRAPH HERE\u201d and typing.\u00a0 You should demarcate the start of this paragraph with a subheading \u201cMoving Forward.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Note that this is not<\/em><\/strong> a \u201csummary\u201d of the preceding, but a brief coverage of what these findings mean to you moving forward.<\/p>\n Again, the page limit with graphics is three (3) pages!\u00a0 And no adjusting font or paragraph formatting to cheat that!\u00a0 At the same time, using less than three pages is likely falling short.\u00a0 The challenge here should be how to convey a complete coverage of your background research findings\u00a0\u2014 the highlights\u00a0\u2014 that is also concise enough to fit in 3 pages.<\/strong>\u00a0 In doing so, the graphics need not be huge, but they should be large enough to make out what is important in them.\u00a0 And you can work text around the graphics as well to avoid losing piles of white space to the sides of the graphic.<\/p>\n This section should be no more than three (3) pages in the format provided, including a small quantity of graphics that are the most useful to conveying your background knowledge.\u00a0 It is a summary of the Individual Background Research B-Sheets compiled in Appendix A of your Technical Archive Document (TAD). \u00a0This section is extremely important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n \u00a9 2017, William J. Endres<\/td>\n Updated February 09, 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"