Conceptual Design Presentation

Time/Date/Place: 02:00pm on Tu 02/24 in MSEC 101

The conceptual design presentation is to convey the general type of your "design in progress" to your colleagues for an assessment. The goals of the presentation are to

• convey and validate your understanding of the problem,
• show alternative conceptual designs, and
• justify selection of your conceptual design.

The ultimate goal is to agree on a general concept, so the detailed design can be started.

General Guidelines:

• 15-18 minutes in length, 20 minutes total with questions;
• all team members are expected to speak;
• order will be teams 1 through 5;
• a TCC computer and projector are available in the room;
• assume your audience is technically knowledgeable, but not aware of the design problem on which you are working;
• present at least three viable conceptual designs giving pros and cons of each;
• dress will be business casual;
• suggested outline:
  1. Title Slide that identifies the project and design team.
  2. Overview Slide that shows the general outline and direction of the presentation.
  3. General Description of the project at a level anyone can understand.
  4. Problem Statement including a summary of initial statement given by the client and how it changed.
  5. Background Material including relevant prior work, challenges, and other material gathered through research.
  6. Functions Design must Perform focusing on basic functions (potentially as a block diagram).
  7. Design Alternatives considered to achieve functions.
  8. Selected Design explaining what it is, why it was chosen, aspects that make it superior to other alternatives, and novel features.
  9. Project Plan including hilights of deliverables, tasks, schedule, members' responsibilities, budget and tracking.
  10. Conclusion briefly summarizing presentation with future work (next steps).
  11. Backup Slides with details not appropriate for presentation, but useful as backup or in a handout such as detailed gantt charts, budgets, diagrams, etc.