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EGR 105 Foundations of Engineering I

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

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EGR 105 Foundations of Engineering I

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

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

  3. Effective ORAL Presentations EGR 105 Fall 2007

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

  5. 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)

  6. System Architecture 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 CPU data cache main memory 32 32 FPGA 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

  7. Showing Results • You havelots of results • no one canread this • no one canunderstand this • Graphs areyour friend…

  8. Graphs can also be the Enemy

  9. Pick a Line, any Line

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

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

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

  15. Grades Attendance/participation 25% Reports 25% Homework 25% Team project 25% 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.)

  16. 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.

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