104.0 Formal Design Reports
Informal Report
  • Memo Heading
  • No Table of Contents
  • Foreword/Summary
  • [Main Body, sometimes introduction, sometimes conclusions]
  • Appendices Optional
Key Differences
From Informal Reports 
  • Often for external audiences (ex. consulting reports)
  • Typically longer than informal reports
  • Includes Title Page and Table of Contents
  • Always includes introduction and conclusion
Title Page
  • Title
  • Type of Report ("Final Design Report")
  • Project Date ("Sept 2013 - Dec 2013")
  • Authors (List all contributors, neat column in the center)
  • Authors' Organization (you can also put in logo if you want, this is optional)
  • Report Date (Day you turn in the report, the last day of class)
  • Recipient (Writing for your doctor, but also writing for professors)
  • Funding Agency (If Appropriate, not in our case).
Formal Reports
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Executive Summary 
  • Introduction
  • [Main Body]
  • Conclusions and Recommendations (if any recommendations)
  • Expected Appendices
Executive Summary
  • Motivation (need) for design (problem)
-insufficencies of current tests
- define the disease and how bad it is
-affected population, and what age they are affected
-just a short paragraph
-early diagnoses eliminates these problems
  • Design Process (task)
-created a new prognostic test
  • Overview of entire design, with main features
- This is a (phenotypic/genotypic) test that looks at (protien/gene/etc) using a (western block/nanosystem/etc). We will target (population) and it will be administered (in drug stores/clinics/pharmacy)
Introductions
  • Motivation/need for design(epidemiology in gretaer detail)
  • intro
  • forecast (this report will cover the following in this order)
Design Criteria
Those imposed by management (criteria we discussed) 
Design Section
  • Short overview of design
  • detailed features 
  • Description as to how this meets criteria
  • Any extra benefits
  • Any tradeoffs
  • Alternative Designs (if any)
  • Potential drawbacks, if any (and refutation of them - ex. given the severity of our disease, we think this is worth it)
  • Budget (if needed)
Conclusions
  • Main features and benefits of design
  • Reiteration of how design meets criteria
  • Couple of paragraphs, not very long
Referecnes
Work cited in the report
Appendices
ROC Curves
Cost Benefit Analysis
-If needed
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