Graduate Prerequisites: Students should be enrolled in the ENG BME PhD program in the second y ear or beyond and advisor approval is required to participate. First y ear students may enroll only with rotation advisor support a - In situations as diverse as writing academic grants to pitching new ideas to venture capitalists, engineers are asked to write proposals in many different contexts to obtain support for their research, On the surface, these proposals can appear to be extended summaries of future research plans. However, research proposals are fundamentally persuasive documents and only succeed if they can motivate their readers into becoming advocates for the proposed work. This course offers a half-semester workshop-style introduction to effective proposal writing in biomedical engineering. Students will learn how to identify and use common persuasive proposal structures, craft effective arguments to motivate engineering research, analyze drafts to identify common pitfalls writers fall into when crafting proposals, and solicit and give useful feedback on their writing. To develop these proposal writing skills, students will draft a proposal suitable for submission to external biomedical engineering funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

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