Your Company Name�Your Practicum Proposal Title�(this should be the name of the project)

Practicum Sponsor Contact Person:

-Name and Title

- Phone and Email

Information about your organization

• What does your organization do?
• What type of people does your organization serve?
• What does your department or division do?
• Where are you based?

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Additional information about your organization

• What else should the student teams or faculty know about your organization, department, or goals ?

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Proposed Project Overview

• Describe the specific problem you are trying to solve, its strategic or operational relevance and the benefits to the organization and its customers including internal groups.
• Describe the scope of the project as you see it, including the core problem, its dependencies, and the role of the team in developing a solution or possibly a part of the larger solution given the time and resources available.
• Describe the specific goals rather than simply adding additional workers on an ongoing project

Project data

• If the project will be using data owned by you or any other organization, provide a description of that data (is the data available, type of data, size, storage (where is it currently?), how will students access that data, etc.)
• Please confirm and provide us with proof that you have full access to that data when you submit that application and that you are able to provide access to students. If you don’t have access to the data required for the project at the time of your proposal submission, it will not be accepted.

Additional Project Description

• Please list any further details about your Practicum project as proposed

Proposed Project Outcome

• Describe the specific outcomes you expect from this project
• What documents, systems built, or reports will be created or generated?
• Or what technologies or systems will be prototyped, piloted, or put into operation?

Technology Skills Required

• What technology skills and competencies are required by the Practicum Student team.
• List any known technical skills and competencies you believe are required to deliver the desired results and deliverables.

Challenges and Risks

• Describe and explain challenges do you believe exist relevant to the project proposed and as well the risks these challenges can present including technical, organizational, scheduling, or communication challenges and risks

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Preliminary Work Plan

• Please provide a brief overview of the sequence of the various key tasks and desired outcomes in the format of a work plan from September to December
• This will assist the student team to develop the statement of work

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Additional thoughts or ideas

• Please list any helpful resources or readings that students could review in advance of starting on your Practicum project
• Please list any additional thoughts or ideas that could motivate students to select your Practicum project proposal over others

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