Final Report Instructions. According to Section J of the DEED Policy Manual (revised March 2, 2017), student internship recipients are required to submit, within three months of internship completion, a “detailed final report on their work, describing activities, costs, bibliography, achievements, problems, results, and recommendations.” The final $1,500 payment will be released once the report is approved by the DEED Administrator. An electronic version of the final report is required. Log in to DEED’s scholarship management system, the same platform where the scholarship application was submitted at xxxx://xxxxxxx.xxx/APPASchol, to upload your final report. The information required for the final report is described below. A satisfactory final report should include background information on the utility and reasons why the internship was undertaken, the problem(s) to be solved and why this particular solution was chosen over others. In writing your report, recognize that we more often learn from our mistakes than our successes, so be honest about your experiences and the outcome. Recognize that a candid analysis and description of the work undertaken is of greatest value to future researchers who can benefit from your lessons learned. Please provide thorough documentation for each section described below. Keep in mind that the purpose of both the final report and abstract is to educate staff at other public utilities about your experiences, whether the outcome is considered successful or not. A simply written and candid report is desired and most useful; an inaccurate, insubstantial, and needlessly wordy “glossing over” or exaggeration of what really happened is a disservice to all who would benefit from your lessons learned.
Final Report Instructions. According to Section J of the DEED Policy Manual (revised February 28.2019), TDP recipients are required to submit, within three months of project completion, a “detailed final report on their work, describing activities, costs, bibliography, achievements, problems, results, and recommendations.” The final $1,500 payment will be released once the report is approved by the DEED Administrator. An electronic version of the final report is required. Log in to DEED’s scholarship management system, the same platform where the scholarship application was submitted at xxxxxxx.xxx/XXXXXxxxxx-Xxxxx, to upload your final report. The information required for the final report is described below. A satisfactory final report should include a complete history of the project/internship – background information on the utility and reasons why the project was undertaken, the problem(s) to be solved and why this solution was chosen over others. In writing your report, recognize that we more often learn from our mistakes than our successes, so be honest about your experiences and the outcome. Recognize that a candid analysis and description of the work undertaken is of greatest value to future researchers who can benefit from your lessons learned. Please provide thorough documentation for each section described below. Keep in mind that the purpose of both the final report and abstract is to educate staff at other public utilities about your experiences, whether the outcome is considered successful or not. A simply written and candid report is desired and most useful to future researchers. An inaccurate, insubstantial, and needlessly wordy “glossing over” or exaggeration of what really happened is a disservice to all future researchers who would benefit from your lessons learned. Project Title • The official project title as submitted in the original proposal to the DEED board. General Overview • Provide an explanation of the applicability of the project to others and alternatives available (if known), problems that arose during the course of the project and how they were resolved, a discussion of whether the intended goals were achieved (and if not, why not), and recommendations regarding any new technology/technique tested during the course of the project. Purpose • Thoroughly describe why the project was undertaken. Explain the problem the project was intended to solve. How could solving this problem help electric utilities? Utility customers? The overall energy industry? The...
