ECE 4334: Effective Presentations Chad A. B. Wilson, Ph.D. Director of Technical Communications Across the Curriculum February 9, 2010 Effective Presentations
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ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Chad A. B. Wilson, Ph.D.Director of Technical Communications
Across the Curriculum
February 9, 2010
Effective Presentations
Team 5 Oral Presentation (Student D 09/25/09)
Team Members: Truong, David, Quy Ngo,
Cristobal Pena, Raghuvar Seth
Direct-Driven Wind Turbine
BLU-LED
PROGRESS REPORT
Team 3:
Hao Le
Andrew Hammen
Jianfeng He
September 25, 2009
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
We will learn three things today:
How to determine the parts of a
presentation
How to deliver PowerPoint
presentations
How to design presentation slides
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Time Engineers Spend Communicating
source: Survey of 300+ Cornell engr grads, 1950-1992
source: instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/aep264/LectureOneFeb02.ppt
Oral Pres16%
Other Work56% Writing
28%
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Presentations in engineering
Advantages of presentations
Can make the presentation come alive
Can revise the presentation on the spot
Can use films, slides, and color
Disadvantages of presentations
One chance to say something correctly
One chance to catch the material
Deal with time constraintsCommunicate to multiple
audiences
From Michael Alley’s The Craft of Scientific Writing
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
The components of a presentation are based on the same principles as the components of written texts
PurposeWhat is the purpose of a progress report?
AudienceWho is the audience for your progress report?
Time
You want to
consider your
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How much time do you have?
Never go over time.
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
The guideline for creating an effective presentation:
Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em,
Tell ‘em,
Tell ‘em what you told ‘em.
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Always tell your audience where your presentation is going.
Mapping
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Determining the parts of the presentation
Designing slides Delivering the presentation
Introduction
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Determining the parts of the presentation
Designing slides Delivering the presentation
Introduction
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Three things to consider when creating a presentation
The components of a presentation
Slide design, including balancing the oral and written components of a presentation
Presentation delivery
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Three things to consider when creating a presentation
The parts
The delivery
The slides
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Introduction
Military Applications Applications for health/medicine Computer Stuff
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Three kinds of applications
Military Applications Applications for health/medicine Computer Stuff
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Overview of today’s presentation
Military Applications Applications for health/medicine Computer Stuff
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Overview of today’s presentation
Military Applications Medical Applications Computer Applications
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Three applications of nanotechnology
Military Medical Computer
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Three applications of nanotechnology
Military
Medical
Computer
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Three applications of
nano-technology
Military Medical Computer
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Three applications of
nano-technology
Military
Medical
Computer
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Three applications of
nano-technology
MilitaryMilitary
MedicalMedical
ComputerComputer
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Three applications of nano-technology
MilitaryMilitary
MedicalMedical
ComputerComputer
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Three applications of nano-technology
MilitaryMilitary
MedicalMedical
ComputerComputer
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Three applications of nanotechnology
MilitaryMilitary
MedicalMedical
ComputerComputer
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Overview
Project Description/Scope Technical Aspects Current Stages Milestones Project Schedule Project Budget
ContentsContents
1. Introduction2. Milestones3. Progress Description4. Engineering Constraints5. Scheduling6. Budget7. Conclusions
•Technical detail of project: Analog circuit and MCU
•Progress of our project
•Milestones we are working on & expected accomplished date.
•Goal: Construct device that locates direction & distance of sound source from device.
OverView
Purpose : To produce a small wind turbine direct driven power train.
Milestones Accomplished and in Progress Goals:
1.Generate power to supply effectively for a Load(Grid)
2. To Effectively use kinetic energy to charge a 12 volt battery
Engineering Constraints Schedule & Budget
Cheng Du’s Picture
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FourierTransform
FourierTransform
CepstralAnalysis
CepstralAnalysis
PerceptualWeighting
PerceptualWeighting
TimeDerivative
TimeDerivative
Time Derivative
Time Derivative
Energy+
Mel-Spaced Cepstrum
Delta Energy+
Delta Cepstrum
Delta-Delta Energy+
Delta-Delta Cepstrum
Input Speech
• Incorporate knowledge of the nature of speech sounds in measurement of the features.
• Utilize rudimentary models of human perception.
Acoustic Modeling Feature Extraction
• Measure features 100 times per sec.
• Use a 25 msec window forfrequency domain analysis.
• Include absolute energy and 12 spectral measurements.
• Time derivatives to model spectral change.
From Michael Alley’s website at www.writing.eng.vt.edu
University of HoustonSystem Design Team 3
Bluetooth
BLU-LEDBluetooth Module
Microcontroller Unit
LEDs
Motor
Block Diagram
Flash LED’s Measure distance
Detect line
Record audio
Play sound Display message on LCD
Grip & carry
objects
Assembling parts
Electronic Design
Programming
ECE 4436 RobotECE 4436 Robot
MilestonesMilestones M1: Robot moves and turns
M2: Robot follows a black line
M3: Robot displays distance to the wall on LCD
M4: Robot records and plays sound
M5: Complete robot with printed PCBs, a subroutine library, and a sample set of lab exercises
Progress DescriptionProgress DescriptionM1: Robot moves and turns
Order partsAssemble gearbox, motors, and chassis◦Hardware design
Design and implement Motor Driver moduleRegulate voltage to 3V from a 6V battery packIntegrate wireless transceiverIntegrate MCU module (NanoCore12DXC32S)
Software designControl motors using Pulse Width Modulation
(PWM)◦ Test and debug
Motor Driver ModuleMotor Driver Module
Figure 1: Diagram of Motor Driver Module
Prototyping BoardPrototyping Board
Figure 2: Prototyping board with MCU and Motor Driver modules integrated
Mechanical StructureMechanical Structure
Figure 3: Robot chassis, gearbox, motors, and ball caster
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PMDFpermanent metal
deck formsCreated by Dr. Todd Helwig, Civil Engineering
Scheduling24-Aug 31-Aug 7-Sep 14-Sep 21-Sep 28-Sep 5-Oct 12-Oct 19-Oct 26-Oct 2-Nov 9-Nov
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12
M1:MCU receives
characters from PC
M2:Character
patterns display correctly
M3:Spinning LEDs
generate message
M4:Control motor
speed for stablization
M5:Messages
updated via bluetooth
SchedulingScheduling
Figure 4: Gantt chart
Gantt chart created by Jonathan Arias
Scheduling
[1]
BudgetProject Cost to Date Expected Project Cost
to DateExpected Project Total
Cost
Labor$14,450.00 $15000.00 $39,050.00
Parts$103.00 $313.00 $468.00
Consulting$150.00 $500.00 $1050.00
Total $16,163.00 $17,363.00 $44578.00
Budget
Expenditures to date Projected expenditures to date Total projected expendituresPARTS: $110 $205 $400
LABOR: $4410 $44800 $10140
CONSULTING: $800 $800 $2,800
TOTAL: $5320 $5485 $13,340
BudgetBudget
BudgetExpenditure
To Date
Projected Expenditure
To Date
Total Projected
Expenditure
Parts $118 $110 $200
Labor $7,800 $7,800 $32,400
Consultation $450 $450 $2,000
TOTAL $8,368 $8,360 $34,650
Table 2: Financial Expenses for ECE 4436 Robot Project
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Think of your slides as notes
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Watch out for the following during your presentations
Putting your hands in your pockets
Turning your back to your audience
Trailing off at the end of sentences…
Staring at your professor during your presentation
Looking only at your group of friends
Standing perfectly still Reading from notes, especially
in monotone
Saying “umm,” “well,” “like,” or “uh” throughout your presentation
Looking surprised at the slide that comes next
Having to say, “Hmm, that wasn’t supposed to do that.”
Including group members who aren’t familiar with the presentation
Staring at your notes throughout the entire presentation
Including slides with just lots of text (like this one!)
ECE 4334: Effective PresentationsRESULTS FOR EXISTING DECK-GIRDER CONNECTIONS
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StiffeningAngle atPanel Ends22 gage deck
Created by Dr. Todd Helwig, Civil Engineering
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FEM MODEL WITH PANELS FOR DECK ELEMENTS
Four-node shellelements of deck panel
Eight-node shellelements of topflange of girder
The translational degrees-of-freedom in the x, y, and z-directions were coupled between the corner nodes of the deck panels and the centerline nodes of the top flange. Translation of the flange imposes shear deformations on the deck form system.
Denotes coupling of translational degrees-of-freedom in x, y,and z-direction betweendeck and girder nodes
Created by Dr. Todd Helwig, Civil Engineering
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
The translational degrees-of-freedom in the x, y, and z-directions were coupled between the corner nodes of the deck panels and the centerline nodes of the top flange. Translation of the flange imposes shear deformations on the deck form system.
Denotes coupling of translational degrees-of-freedom in x, y,and z-direction betweendeck and girder nodes
Four-node shellelements of deck panel
Eight-node shellelements of topflange of girder
FEM MODEL WITH PANELS FOR DECK ELEMENTS
Created by Dr. Todd Helwig, Civil Engineering
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Your Presentation Here!
Now that we know what slides should look like, let’s talk about how to deliver them!
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
For timing
Practice your presentation at least once or twice.
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
For timing
Practice your presentation at least once or twice.
For problems with your slides
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
For timing
Practice your presentation at least once or twice.
For problems with your slides
For professionalism
ECE 4334: Effective Presentations
Communication is about words, as well as inflection and gestures
7% is communicated
through the actual words
you use55% is communicated
non-verbally
38% is communicated through inflection and
vocal quality
From Mahrabian, Psychology Today
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It’s not a movie, so don’t make your slides the main focus.
Don’t read from the screen.
Conclusions Our goal is design and fabricate a small wind
turbine directly driven power train. As of now, the team is behind schedule due to
the demand of our client. We are currently over budget by
approximately $2,000 The team believes that we will be finished by
the deadline, Nov 2, 2009
Any Questions?
Questions?
Summary
• Project is delayed due to ordering process.
• Milestones 1 and 2 are undergoing • Milestone 3, 4, and 5 are expected to be on schedule.
Questions ???
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Tips for Effective Presentations
Start designing your presentation early
Practice, practice, practice Speak in a normal tone Do not read from the screen Use clear transitions Repeat your key points Use your body language
• Purpose • Audience • Technical knowledge
Guidelines for designing effective slides