Final Presentations

Date Scheduled: S 04/27/2002 at 9:00am in Workman 101

Audience: Gear towards technically capable group of supervisors, sponsors, and colleagues. Family, friends, faculty, and staff are welcome.

Dress: Business casual, i.e., nicely dressed and no jeans, shorts, t-shirts.

Presentation Order: Team A (chassis, navigation, ball/hole location, communication) followed by Team B (chassis, navigation, ball/hole location, communication).

Allotted Presentation Time (including questions): 20 minutes.

Presentation Equipment Available: Computer projector running PowerPoint 97 and regular overhead projector. PowerPoint presentations should be given to Drs. Rison and Wedeward by 5:00pm F 04/26/2002

Presentation Objective: Inform your supervisors, sponsors, and colleagues about your solution to the assigned task.

Final Presentation Grading:

• Presentation skills (clarity, slide readability, organization, speaker transition, time limit, eye contact, appropriate dress, etc.): 45%
• Presentation content (cover all aspects of your design; in the end your audience should have a good understanding of your design and overall project status): 45%
• Ability to answer questions about design: 10%

Presentation Items:

• Instructor will give overview of project objective prior to presentations.
• Items to include:
  • introduction/presentation overview
  • block diagrams to represent overall system design as well as various subsystems used to meet project objectives
  • participation by all group members in presentation with contributions by each clearly stated
  • strengths and weaknesses of your design
  • final project status, i.e., what works and what doesn't
  • final budget
• Items not to include:
  • very detailed schematics