1. Title of your work on one or two lines. Use simple words, no acronyms; this does not have to be your thesis title Mr/Ms Your Name, Dr./Prof. Your Supervisor(s) Name(s) Background (Methods) (Results) Conclusions References are not specifically required UCL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Collaborators (other universities/ institutions) or sponsoring companies’ logos go in this box – delete this section if not required. These boxes are for your guidance – remove before submitting your poster. Explain a little about the background to the project: what area are you working in? We’ll have projects from a very wide range of areas. It is not appropriate to include your whole literature review here, the idea is to explain the following points in a couple of sentences each: (i) what is the main challenge you are setting out to research? (ii) why is that important? i.e. what are the potential benefits of research in this area? (iii) –this last point is optional: how have other researchers attempted to tackle the problem? This section must leave the reader with an idea of what you’re going to do, and why, but not too much specific information. You do not need to include all the work you’re doing – this is not an examination! For this event, it would be much better to explain one concept in an understandable manner. I would expect most posters to have a “background” section and a “conclusions” section. If it is appropriate to use “methods” and “results”, then do, otherwise these could be changed as necessary. While the text and images are up to you, do not change the layout of the page, including text size or spacing, or formatting, background or colours. Don’t change the page size. Publications and poster events always have strict guidelines and this is no exception. If it’s too early for you to have results, then say what you hope to achieve, with an idea of the time-scale. E.g. “we hope to provide evidence of xxxxx relationship occurring before …(date) ”. -180-135-90-4504590135180 0 1 2 3 Don’t forget axis labels! Test A Test B Please keep all text in figures and graphs at least 16-point – that’s “this big” Graphs etc. must be explained in simple terms, saying what they show and why that’s important (i.e. what does it mean if “the line” goes up or down?!) What’s the significance of your results so far? What does your work mean to the “person on the street”? For example, will it help to reduce carbon emissions? Will it improve the reliability of surgical procedures? Or it might be that you’re just saving a company some money through improving efficiency, that’s fine! 1.Although you might like to take the opportunity to draw attention to a paper you’ve published, or perhaps a forthcoming conference where you will be presenting your work. Use this smaller-size typeface for references. 2.IF you use references, they should be numbered as they appear within the text where they should be enclosed within square brackets. Example picture might go here SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS! Deadline: 9:00am 7 th July 2014 Don’t email your poster: the file sizes will be too large. Instead use www.ucl.ac.uk/dropbox to send the PowerPoint file (not.pdf) to Jamie Maher j.maher@ucl.ac.ukwww.ucl.ac.uk/dropbox Or bring in your file in person to Jamie Maher, in Roberts 419. If you would like to check the appearance of your file please drop in to see Jamie on Monday 30 th June. In this section explain what you are actually doing. Are you taking measurements from a test rig? Do you have to design and make the test rig? Are you simulating something? If so, did you create the simulation? What are the most important and novel and interesting parts about what you are actually doing. Be careful about using technical terms here - if an average secondary school pupil wouldn’t understand the word then don’t use it, or explain what it means first, before putting the word in brackets (like this). References are optional [1] since this is not a formal document. A few nice pictures in here would be good, but make sure you explain what they show Example small picture might go here