Journal Article

You must submit your final design report to an eprint server called engrXiv - pronounced "engineering archive." engrXiv is a platform for engineers and engineering researchers to upload working papers, pre-prints, published papers, data, and code. engrXiv is a repository of open access articles which means that your research will be publicly available for free after it is published on the site. Anybody who helped you develop your design (eg. clinical mentor, engineering advisor, etc) can be listed as a co-author of the published article. Make sure to ask permission of each co-author before you cite them as a co-author. Also, allow every co-author to review the document before it is published.

engrXiv can host academic research at a number of stages in the research process:

Working papers: Any draft of a paper that is ready to share with interested parties, but has not yet been peer reviewed. You may upload your final design report on to engrXiv as a working paper.
Preprints: Most people use this term to refer to completed papers that have not yet been peer reviewed (like working papers). However, by some definitions this includes versions of a paper that have been peer reviewed but are not yet published by a journal.
Postprints: After a paper has been published by a journal, this is a version that you elect to share on engrXiv. It may be a version that does not include the journal’s formatting or other changes, or it may be the publisher’s copy (or “version of record”) if you have the right to distribute it. This is the version you share when you’ve published something but it’s behind a paywall and you want anyone to be able to read it.

There are several benefits of publishing your work through engrXiv:

Upon submitting a document on to engrXiv, your document will be provided with a stable, permanent URL which you can put on your CV or your professional portfolio (eg. LinkedIn).
Your work can be cited by other researchers and it will be indexed and searchable in Google Scholar.
You will be able to view how many times your work is viewed and downloaded by other researchers.
Your work will receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). A DOI is a string of numbers, letters and symbols used to uniquely identify an article or document, and to provide it with a permanent web address (URL).

Note of Caution: After your work is published through engrXiv, it will become permanent, publicly searchable, and available online. Other researchers will be able to replicate your work and review your findings. Therefore, if any falsified information or testing results is published on the site, and this falsified information is discovered, then you and your co-authors reputations could be tarnished, and your professional careers could be jeopardized.

After you have submitted your document on engrXiv, provide the URL to the submitted paper or provide the DOI in the space below.