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1. How will you introduce yourselves and the topic? Why are we here today? (i.e. grab audience attention, statistics, thought provoking question, brief story, etc. )
The introduction should be friendly, minimalistic, and probably contain with a thought-out provoking question to capture the attention of the audience.
2. How much, and what, background will you give to the project? (think: who is your audience)
Not a whole lot of background information will be given on the project since the entire class is aware of the AEV project and what it entails. However, we will specify our design decisions, how we reached our group design and compare the group design to the individual designs. We will use elements from the concept scoring and screening worksheets to help explain this.
3. What are the key topics your group has learned/discovered thus far? (Don’t just list the labs; what directly has impacted your thought process?
The key topics that have impacted our group’s thought process so far have been designing the AEV to be as compact as possible (executed during Lab 5) and to make it as easy to control as possible. For example by putting propellers on both sides of the AEV, the energy wasted in something such stopping the vehicle should be reduced.
4. Identify the key goal(s) for the AEV project on which your group will focus (i.e. consistency, low weight, cost, energy, etc) and why:
A very simple calendar would be a good concise way to show our plan going forward to the audience. We like our AEV design so far so we think that we want to stick with it and a lot of redesigning is not necessary. Our responsibilities will likely remain the same (we can include a slide that lists each member’s responsibilities) and our timeline from here on out will basically be to tweak, analyze, fix, and repeat each lab session to try to get the vehicle as fast, efficient, and controlled as possible.
5. What is your plan (Project Management) going forward? (goals, timeline, responsibilities, etc) (Is there a concise way to show this to your audience? What level of details are needed in this short presentation?)
Considering the audience knows our due dates, we will most likely stress what we are attempting to accomplish in a larger scope than a week-by-week plan that would just recap labs and deadlines. This as a result will be pretty general with a broader scope and vision representing what we will attempt to accomplish.
6. How will you divide the time of your presentation, both in speakers and topic? Does the time matchup with value/importance? A brief storyboard is very helpful with this.
We will divide the time of the presentation into topics with little importance on background considering our audience. The group will spend more time talking about how we will address what problems we have met and our individual solutions and ideas. The talking time will be divided equally to give the audience an impression on all of our team members and their voice in the project. More time will be spent on topics that are more original such as our design and inspiration because the audience knows our goals and backgrounds. However, this will still be addressed briefly to show how we got from the mission to our current position.
7. Define professionalism for your group. (think: how will you dress? How does the presentation format look? How will you carry yourselves and speak?)
Professionalism means we should all be on the same page. The team should make decisions as a group, and be prepared to present as a group. We will know who will cover what topics so we will not be repetitive. Scholarly language shall be used and group members should not read from the screen or notecards. Additionally, we will agree on a professional dress code beforehand.
Updated February 21, 2017