Project Background Presentation Project Title Here

1. Project Background PresentationProject Title Here DPM Student Presenter 1 (Dept) DPM Student Presenter 2 (Dept) DPM Student Presenter 3 (Dept) DPM Student Presenter 4 (Dept) DPM Student Presenter 5 (Dept) DPM Student Presenter 6 (Dept) USE THIS TEMPLATE ONLY AS AN OUTLINE REPLACE IT WITH YOUR OWN MATERIAL AND YOUR OWN CUSTOM FORMAT DO NOT SIMPLY CUT AND PASTE!

2. Cover the Basics… • What • Who • Why • Where • When • How You don’t need to cover this information in this order, or with this outline, but your background presentation SHOULD cover this information! Answer all of the questions on the following slides in a concise and coherent manner, and you are well on your way to a good background presentation USE THIS TEMPLATE ONLY AS AN OUTLINE REPLACE IT WITH YOUR OWN MATERIAL AND YOUR OWN CUSTOM FORMAT DO NOT SIMPLY CUT AND PASTE!

3. What • What is the problem that needs to be solved? • What are you going to be talking about? • What is the project trying to accomplish? • What is the goal? • What is the terminology that you need to explain your project to your DPM peers? • What are the challenges associated with this project? • What are the first principles involved? • What are the constraints? • What has already been done before? • What are the past failures? • What are the past successes? • What knowledge was gained? • What lessons were learned?

4. Who • Who are the stakeholders in this project? • Be specific – Don’t just say “faculty” or “students” or “telecomm companies” name them! • Who are the students who will contribute to this project? • Who are the student who will benefit from the project? • Who will help pay for the project? • Who are the faculty members interested in the project? • Who had the idea for this project in the first place? • Who do you know that is an expert on this field, and knows more about it than you? • Who has worked on this project in the past? • Faculty, staff, students, sr design teams, other teams • Off campus, Other schools, Companies, Labs, Countries, etc. BE SPECIFIC • Who Cares?

5. Why • Why is this project important? • Why is it important to RIT KGCOE? • Why does it fit with the academic programs of the KGCOE? • Why is this project important to people other than RIT? • Why does EACH stakeholder have a vested interest in the project? • Why this project now, at this time? • Why this project at RIT? • Why this project in KGCOE Multi-disc Senior Design? • Why YOU?

6. Where • Where has this project been studied before? • Where is the past work from MSD compiled? • Where are past artifacts and prototypes? • Where has work of this type been completed? • Where are the people who did the work today? • Where is this project being studied now? • Where is the knowledge base?

7. When • When is this project important? • Are there market forces that drive the need for a particular timely completion of this project? • When has this project been worked on previously? • When will project teams already working in this field have something for you to expand upon? • When is the Innovation and Creativity Festival? • When are you going to release your solution?

8. How • How has this project been studied? • How did past investigators tackle this problem? • How did they succeed? • How did they fail? • How did they demonstrate success or failure? • How can you learn from past efforts?

9. Don’t… • Propose Solutions • Select the “right” answer • Assume that your audience knows what you are talking about • Speak exclusively in generalities – use specific examples when you can • Try to make a presentation that “sweeps shortcomings under the rug”

10. Do… • Show that you know the answers to the past • Show that you understand the possible directions for the future • Show that you know WHAT THE PROBLEM IS! • Expect questions probing your understanding • Articulate what you are confused about, don’t understand, feel lost, are uncertain about.