Project
Presentations: Logistics and Suggestions
End-of-Term:
Tuesday, March 16th
-
Your Project Presentations will be
a "podium-style" presentations using Powerpoint slides online via
Zoom.
Please email your PowerPoint slides
(.ppt or .pptx) or provide a Google Docs url to me as a backup.
-
Your presentation should
include:
- Introduction of
student
- One sentence project
description
- Statement of problem and user
population affected
- Discussion of interviews with
project suggestors and users
- Identification and limitations
of existing solutions
- Magnitude of problem addressed
by this project
- Statement of need
- Description and analysis of all
design concepts considered
- Description of and rationale for
selected design including its key benefits, comparative advantages over
existing solutions, performance, user testing and acceptance, safety
considerations, etc
- Project visualizations:
photographs, videos, sketches, drawings, models, prototypes
- Future work and challenges for
continuing the project, including technical feasibility, engineering
difficulty, and estimated cost of a commercial product
Each presentation will be no longer
than 7 minutes. The limited time does not allow for questions or live
demonstrations.
Discuss your entire quarter's
effort for your End-of-Term pressentation.
-
Each person attending the
presentation (including other students) will be asked to judge the quality of
your presentation and design solution. (Do not rate your own
project.)
-
There may be people from industry
attending the presentation, so please dress professionally (no jeans, t-shirts,
or flip-flops).
-
Most important - practice your
presentation to maximize the quality of its content, clarity, conciseness,
completeness, understanding of your design decisions, creativity, pacing, and
timing.
|