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James’ Presentation Guideline slides

presentation schedule (Oct. 29-Nov. 30)

CFP Evaluation Form (used by advisors, TA, and instructor to evaluate the students’ CFP and presentation.

CFP Presentation

• Main emphasis: Critical Function Prototype?

• Your main emphasis should be on presenting your Critical Function Prototype? (CFP)
  • Review your motivation and goals in choosing this CFP
  • Show the design of your CFP and talk about what you learned
• You will also need to give a brief project definition statement
• key dates in your schedule (1–2 slides)
  • reference your current progress, whether your ahead or behind on your schedule
  • Include how you are doing on your schedule (use bullet points, no Gantt charts please)
  • what is the next thing(s) your team is focusing on?
• Budget (1 slide)

Suggested content for CFP Presentation

(i.e., the structure or your presentation might look something like this)

• Preview/Outline Slide

• Slide(s) giving a brief definition of what your project is and your approach

• key dates in your schedule (very brief, 1–2 slides)
  • reference your current progress, whether your ahead or behind on your schedule
  • Include how you are doing on your schedule
  • what is the next thing(s) your team is focusing on?
• Budget (1 slide max, very brief)
  • how are you doing, spending, projected spending, fund raising…

• Describe chosen CFP, reminding audience what you hoped to learn from making it.
  • Bring CFP to class if possible and show audience
  • Describe what you learned, surprises, failures, etc…
  • Take pictures and label the important things you want to show us

• Review/Summary Slide

• Conclusions Slide with contact info

How you will be evaluated

• Quality of prototype
  • Is it at the appropriate level to answer objectives?
  • Manufacturing quality
• Reasonable motivation behind prototype
• Reasonable test plan
• Reasonable execution of test plan and evaluation
• Presentation of results
• Quality of presentation
  • Oral presentation
  • Design of presentation

Additional Information

• Time: 12–15 minutes (you will get a warning at 12 minutes that you have 3 minutes remaining).

• All team members must be present

• Presenters will receive special consideration during final grading. This may push a student up a 1/3 of a grade if he/she is on the border between two grades.