1. oral communication

2. course competency “deliver an oral message or presentation appropriate to the audience, within the specified time constraint, and using appropriate visual aids”

3. other than the fact that it’s a competency, why is effective oral communication important to engineers? take a few minutes to record your thoughts.

4. pair – share why is effective communication important?

5. oral presentation types Informative describes the design process used by the team in developing the process/tools used in the Olympic cauldron project Persuasive tries to convince the audience that their team’s process was best Instructional explains how to operate the tool the team used to move cups

6. You will each be giving a presentation about a particular manufacturing process to your teammates What type of presentation do you think this will be?

7. presentation musts time organization / content slide appearance

8. time include enough content to effectively use your time don’t go over time practice to meet time requirement

9. content/organization sandwich structure tell a story use and discuss graphics

10. slide appearance what are some ways you can ensure appropriate and professional slide appearance in a presentation?

11. report out what are ways to ensure professional slide appearance? share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

12. slide appearance font size text/background contrast no information overload use appropriate graphics and animation

13. font size eye chart 18 Pt Font 24 Pt Font 28 Pt Font 32 Pt Font 36 Pt Font 40 Pt Font 48 Pt Font 60 Pt Font

14. text/background color Text Background Color

15. too much information leads to too little information

16. Attempt to Land Captain Fuchs aircraft was too high and too close to the airport to perform a landing so he was forced to circle the airport until he could reduce his air speed and altitude. In attempt to slow his aircraft he extended the flaps but only the inner wing flaps extended because the hydraulic system to extend the outer flaps had been damaged when the engine separated from the wing. This caused the wing to have a greater pitch angle when landing. The sudden drop in airspeed caused the plane to bank to the right. In an attempt to save the plane, Captain Fuchs increased the engine power, in turn dooming himself and the crew.

17. pictures & graphics use them, but cite the source of and discuss them http://www.damninteresting.net/content/gertie_man.jpg

18. animation/graphics are useful, but… 18 not all animation adds to the presentation not all graphics add to the presentation

19. spll check miss pselled wrods and poor grammer is not aceptabel in a proffessional presentation!

20. presentation wants informative quality references knowledgeable / confident presenter

21. informative how can you make your presentations informative? you’ll be presenting on manufacturing processes

22. report out what are ways to make your presentation on a manufacturing process informative? share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

23. informative shows process at work clearly discusses strengths/limitations of process contains all requested info asks for questions

24. quality references how can you demonstrate the quality of the references in your presentation?

25. report out how can you demonstrate the quality of the references in your presentation? share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

26. quality references reference list is presented references include more than wikipedia and newspapers quality of the references and/or authors is established

27. confident speaker what are the characteristics of a confident speaker?

28. report out what are the characteristics of a confident speaker? share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

29. confident speaker exhibits enthusiasm makes eye contact points to items on screen delivers extemporaneous (not memorized) talk doesn’t use note cards