The phrase "devise a project" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to suggest someone come up with a creative plan or process for achieving a certain goal. For example, "We need to devise a project to improve sales in our retail store."
On their return to work they are asked to devise a project that helps to develop HSBC's approach to sustainability.
Mayor Rick Taylor and other officials spent months working with a contractor and state environmental officials to devise a project that would allow the eagles to coexist with the assortment of homeowners, golfers, hotel guests and club patrons who would likely be drawn to the island by the development.
Captivated by the creatures, and noticing that there were no major conservation projects to support them, Ciofi proceeded to devise a project from scratch.
It is a given, at this point in time, that the star will attract sellout audiences to any stage appearance and that most any producer in town will eagerly devise a project to suit his availability.
WHEN Time Inc. and Lexus devised a project they thought could be a new business model for magazines, they discovered that new business models come with new problems.
Playwright Mark Ravenhill, who is devising a project based on the composer's cabaret songs for June's Aldeburgh festival, agrees: "That old saying about England being the 'land without music' held true, at least as far as opera goes.
"And he said, 'Hey, I've been wanting to talk with you about asthma.' " They teamed up and devised a project, with help from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and T. Berry Brazelton, the child development expert.
Hanson also devised a project he called "Frontier Torts," in which students in his first-year torts class explored several developing areas of tort law in a much more interactive fashion than the casebook method would allow.
Conservationists have now devised a project that they hope will ensure the long-term survival of orangutans by protecting key patches of secondary forest – areas that have been stripped of the biggest trees but are still wooded – from being chopped down for palm oil and other types of agriculture.
Thinking about what a CDE (culminating design experience) should be, we devised a project that combines the microcontroller programming principles learned in ECE 476: Microcontroller Design with the control theory concepts learned in ECE 472: Feedback Control Systems to create an academically viable stationary helicopter.
In 1908 Gaudí devised a project for a skyscraper hotel in New York, the Hotel Attraction, commissioned by two American entrepreneurs whose names are unknown.
