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Writing Successful Proposals

This guide focuses on successful proposal writing for funding from agencies like NSF and industry. It emphasizes the importance of addressing real-world problems, demonstrating novelty, and providing a clear technical approach. Moreover, it highlights the significance of showcasing prior achievements and using illustrative examples. It also addresses common pitfalls such as submitting to the wrong programs, excessive ambition, and failing to contextualize work within the current state-of-the-art. Mastering these elements can lead to higher success rates in securing funding.

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Writing Successful Proposals

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  1. Writing Successful Proposals Chen-Ching Liu Advanced Power Technologies Center University of Washington

  2. Funding Agencies • NSF and other Government agencies - fundamental research, education component • Industry - Cost/benefits of the work, implementation in a practical environment is important • Internal funding at universities - show seed money leads to more opportunities for external funding

  3. A Good Proposal • Solving a real problem • Starting a new field • Potential impact to the state-of-the-art • Potential impact to industry • Novelty of ideas, imaginative concepts • Sufficient details of the technical approach • Illustration with simple examples • Generalization from simple examples

  4. Example Problems • Discuss the past work in detail but little about what will be done if awarded • Incremental improvement of technology • Obvious weakness in presentation • Not putting work in the context of the state-of-the-art (important work cited??) • Too ambitious

  5. Example Problems - Conti. • Proposal sent to wrong programs • Weak track record in research • Broad coverage without focus • Problem areas no longer of interest • Making incorrect statements • Poor reviewers can hurt too.

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