David L. Jaffe, MS
Lathrop Library, Classroom 282
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:50pm

Project Presentations: Logistics and Suggestions

Mid-Term: Thursday, February 14th
End-of-Term: Tuesday, March 12th

1. Your Mid-Term and End-of-Term Project Presentations will be a "podium-style" presentations using Powerpoint slides in the classroom.

   I require that you either email me your PowerPoint slides (.ppt or .pptx) or provide a Google Docs url so I can check them for proper display and load them onto my laptop for the presentation.

2. Your presentation should include:

   1. Introduction of team members
   2. One sentence project description
   3. Statement of problem and user population affected
   4. Discussion of interviews with project suggestors and users
   5. Identification and limitations of existing solutions
   6. Magnitude of problem addressed by this project
   7. Statement of need
   8. Description and analysis of all design concepts considered
   9. Description of and rationale for selected design including its key benefits, comparative advantages over existing solutions, performance, user testing and acceptance, safety considerations, etc
   10. Project visualizations: photographs, videos, sketches, drawings, models, prototypes
   11. Future work and challenges for continuing the project, including technical feasibility, engineering difficulty, and estimated cost of a commercial product

   Each team member should participate in the presentation.

   Each team will have 7 minutes for their presentation. The limited time does not allow for questions or live demonstrations.

   Discuss your entire quarter's effort for your End-of-Term pressentation.

3. 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.)

4. There may be people from industry attending the presentation, so please dress professionally (no jeans, t-shirts, or flip-flops).

5. Most important - practice your presentation to maximize the quality of its content, clarity, conciseness, completeness, understanding of your design decisions, creativity, pacing, and timing.

Updated 08/10/2018