Proposal

Planned

The proposal is a contract. It states what will be done, and the committee approves that, not a general direction. Scope written loosely here becomes scope argued about at the defense.

Commitments

#	Commitment	Evidence it will produce	Deliverable
1	Not set
2	Not set
3	Not set

Structure

Problem and motivation
Related work and the gap
Research questions and hypotheses
Proposed method
Preliminary results
Plan and timeline
Threats to validity

Preliminary results required

A proposal with no preliminary result is a plan, not a proposal. These are the runs that must exist before the proposal is scheduled.

Experiment	Purpose	Status
EXP-001	Demonstrates feasibility	planned

Outcome

Not yet held. Record the date, the conditions attached, and the required revisions here afterwards.