Conceptual Design Review (Presentation)
Time/Date/Place: 02:00pm on Tu 02/21 in Workman 109
The conceptual design presentation is to convey 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:
- 15-20 minutes in length, 25 minutes total with questions;
- all team members are expected to speak;
- order will be teams 1 through 3;
- a computer and projector are available in the room (test them
beforehand and have presentation pre-loaded);
- assume your audience is technically knowledgeable, but not aware
of the design problem on which you are working;
- present viable options considered for overall design and
subsystems giving pros and cons of each;
- dress will be "dressy casual";
- suggested outline:
- Title Slide that identifies the project and
design team.
- Overview Slide that shows the general outline
and content of the presentation.
- General Description of the project and its purpose
at a level anyone can understand.
- Problem Statement including scope, constraints and
specifications.
- Functions Design must Perform focusing on
high-level project breakdown and functions (potentially as a
block diagram).
- Design Alternatives considered to achieve
project and functions.
- Selected Design for overall project and functions
explaining what they are and why they were chosen.
- Test Plan for experiments and tests that will
verify if project and functions were successful.
- Project Plan including highlights of deliverables,
tasks, schedule, members' responsibilities, budget and
tracking.
- Conclusion briefly summarizing presentation
with future work (next steps).
- Backup Slides with details not appropriate for
presentation, but useful as backup or in a handout
such as detailed gantt charts, budgets, diagrams, etc.