EGR 105 Foundations of Engineering I Fall 2007 – week 11 Presentation Tips

EGR105 – Week 11 Topics Tips for oral presentations PowerPoint Equation editor

Effective ORAL Presentations EGR 105 Fall 2007

What Should You Present? Introduction Body: –Cover the essential points –Highlights only, not too much detail ! Summary –What makes your results unique? Attractive?

Presentation Materials Slides as a visual aid: –Not too many –Allow 1-2 minutes for each –Keep them simple (1 or 2 ideas) Use of PowerPoint: –Commonly available –Greatly simplified the process –Easily abused (PowerPointPoison)

Using Diagrams There are exceptions, but –don’t have only text on most of your slides –try to draw diagrams wherever applicable (Well-drawn) pictures are easier to understand System Architecture  There’s a CPU, a RAM and an FPGA and they’re all connected - The FPGA connects to the CPU’s data cache - The bus is 32 bits wide - Blah blah blah blah  You have to visualize it yourself System Architecture CPU FPGA data cache main memory 32

Showing Results You have lots of results –no one can read this –no one can understand this Graphs are your friend…

Graphs can also be the Enemy

Pick a Line, any Line

Formatting the Slides No sentences, just words/phrases Large fonts (18 point or more) Fully label tables and graphs Be neat No cheesy images Select colors carefully Limit the use of sound and “animations” Comic 32 pt 28 pt 24 pt 20 pt 18 pt 16 pt 14 pt 12 pt 10 pt

Presentation Style Remember, you’re selling your results: –Forget that you’re a student –Project a positive attitude –Generate enthusiasm Speak to the entire audience: –Make eye contact –Speak clearly, slowly, and loudly –Usually the audience is quite receptive

Organize your talk: –Practice, practice, practice !!! –You have 5 minutes, no more !! So time your practice presentations Use notes if you need them All team members should participate

Equation Editor Useful for adding equations to documents and presentations Simple interface:

Writing equations using Paint Paint is a drawing program Use symbol font for Greek letters. Reduce the size of subscripts and super scripts

Grades Attendance/participation 25% Reports25% Homework25% Team project25% Attendance includes the 13 weeks of class and the Kirk Auditorium lectures, Participation includes class discussions. Reports are a one paragraph summary of the Kirk Auditorium Lectures. (The best 8 of 12 are used to calculate the grade.) Homework is graded on a 10-point scale with points lost for late submission. (homework due the following week.)

Academic Integrity Academic Integrity: The following quote from Prof. Taggart's Egr106 web site applies. According to URI's policy on academic integrity, "cheating is the claiming of credit for work not done independently." While students are encouraged to help each other in completing homework assignments, each student is expected to submit work that they have developed on their own. Submission of duplicate copies of Matlab code is not acceptable. If you use someone else's code, you have to get their permission and acknowledge it in the code and in the report and presentation.