WHITE PAPER PROPOSAL
OUTLINE:
TITLE PAGE
Title of your project and your names.
Abstract
Descriptive, what is the problem to be solved and how you solved it
(usually 200 words). Has to catch the reader's interest. (Don't mention EE499 anywhere
except the acknowledgements). Can give brief results.
Page break
INTRODUCTION
No equations.
No figures.
Give some background on what the problem is, give historical background/evolution of
the technology and describe how you approached it.
Last paragraph describes what is in each section up to and including the conclusions.
About 1 sentence per section.
TECHNICAL SECTIONS ON
(use lots of figures and ample equations throughout these sections)
Background
Might have background on related technologies or methods.
System description
Describe a system diagram or figure and tell how it works
And/or components of the system
Example: Describe Transmitter, Receiver, Controller, encoder, decoder, etc.
DO’S AND DON'TS
Don't start a sentence as if it is a continuation of the section title.
After a section title, always have at least a descriptive paragraph of text before any
subsections. The first sentence is the most important. After that, just describe in a how to
manner your technology.
TIMELINE AND MILESTONES
Use something like a Gant chart.
DELIVERABLES
Tell exactly what you are going to deliver and who owns it.
BUDGET
Spell out the estimated costs.
DISTRIBUTION OF EFFORT
What each team member was responsible for?
REFERENCES
List data books used.
List text books.
List previous designs.
(You can cite most references in the introduction, and use either [1] or a superscript)
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
1 paragraph biographical sketch.
ODDS AND ENDS
All figures have captions and all captions are cited. See Fig. 3 for example.
All equations have numbers
A=B
(1)
And cite equations as Eq. (1)
Appendices
Schematics (some schematics can go in the technical sections)
Parts lists
Links to data sheets