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Request for Software Development Funding
from the School of Medicine Educational Computing Committee

Project title:

Number of student developers requested:

Faculty name(s):

Department (& Division):

Phone:

E-mail:

Unit(s) or Course(s) involved (# & name) and your role(s):

Number of students in course(s):

When taught:

Your request should consist of brief, non-italic text entered into the expandable boxes below the following items.

1.Provide a one or two sentence summary of your request’s goals and impacts. This should be compelling and clear: if the ECC approves your proposal, your summary will be used to request funding from the campus computer committee and then to recruit students.

2.Describe the project’s educational goal and explain how it will fit into the unit’s/ course’s teaching and testing.

A.What do you want to create and how will a student use the completed project in the course(s) you identified above?

B.How will your completed project improve, replace, or supplement what already exists? If you are not the course/unitdirector, does the director agree to incorporate the material?

C. What role will the project play in the course’s examinations?

D. Will students rate the software as part of the formal course evaluation (Yes or No)?

3.Describe the job. Normally medical students work on projects for ca. 8 weeks over the summer between years 1 and 2. Justify the need for more than one student per project and answer questions below for each. You must make clear to the committee that you will provide or arrange for adequate supervision and support. For example, if you are going to make a digital video, tell us about the camera, filming conditions, editing hardware/software, who is responsible for training, and who will review the video’s content and quality.

A.Where will the student developer work, what is the schedule, what skills are needed, and what will be done?

B. What are the names, roles, and time commitments of all faculty/staff involved in directing a student’s work, providing content &/or equipment, and checking the product?

C. How will you insure that the project will be completed with resources and time available?

4.Can your department provide any funding if our budget is limited?

5.Is necessary support in place for the finished product? (From the example above, if you make a digital video to be streamed over the web or the Eccles LAN, tell us about servers, hardware/software requirements for users, maintenance personnel, etc.)

6.How will you evaluate the success of your project and what plans do you have for its improvement? If you have received support before, describe how previous work is being used in order to justify its continuation, or the initiation of a new project.

7.How widely will your project be available to the medical education community outside your course?

Save the completed application as a PDF, or else leave it as a Word file, and send it as an e-mail attachment to .

Applications are due by Friday, 27 January 2012.