Feasibility and Measurement Framework for Innovative Engineering Projects for Academic Evaluation
Why “Innovative Projects” Fail in Reality Final year engineering students often face a hidden but crucial issue when choosing project topics. While most aim to pick innovative ideas that seem advanced and impressive, few can accurately assess whether these ideas are realistically feasible within academic constraints. Consequently, projects often start with high hopes but gradually lose direction during execution. This problem isn't due to a lack of technical knowledge. Instead, it results from a mismatch between project ambition and execution capability. Students tend to choose topics based on trends like artificial intelligence, IoT, or automation without setting clear objectives or measurable parameters. As a result, the project becomes too broad, the system too complex, and the outcomes too weak to justify. From a psychological standpoint, students are influenced by two main pressures. The first is peer comparison, where projects that look complex are seen as superior. The...
