The last month and a half I've been working a lot on my prospectus, which is basically a document that gives some background about my research topic, details specifically what my research objectives are, defines the scope of my research, gives a basic methodology outline, gives some indication of whether or not the objectives are reasonable and attainable, and lastly describes my anticipated contributions.
The biggest challenge was the size limit: my prospectus couldn't be over five pages of text, and my committee members are not systems engineers, and my research topic is difficult to describe succinctly anyway. And then each committee member had different things they wanted added in, so I had to figure out what else I could remove.
Anyway, I submitted a first draft, and only had to make one additional iteration before they all signed off on it. It's nice having that done, because now it's clearly defined exactly what I need to do moving forward!
Probably nobody but me cares that much, but for posterity's sake, you can read it here.
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