Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar1 Agenda Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar Ethics Memos due today—please include checklist, place in accordion folder. Writing Sample—required, filed. Visual Communication: Site design issues, Engineering Exhibit. After break: Engineering Exhibit due March 20. “ePortfolios” (web site) due: Monday, March 31  Next Week: Have a Safe Break!

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar2 ME Professional Website, “ePortfolio” 1.Site Cover: Introduction of site owner/author and site contents (index.html). >use space! 2.Navigation: Link to site map containing working links to all site elements (.htm). >provide support, consider “back” icon! 3.Resumes: On-line version (.htm) for screen viewing and print-friendly (.doc,.rtf, or.pdf) version for printing. >consider security! 4.Engineering Exhibit: 1 to 3 PowerPoint slides showing a technical project (.htm or.ppt )>visual + text! 5.Interview clip: Meet the author! 15 to 30 seconds (.wmv format- “windows media video”). >short!

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar3 For Website: Go for Screen Readability! All windows are small! Forecasting critically important Macro level—via navigation schemes. Micro level-- via informative text links Compared to print (pages): Use half the words! Use lists! ¶ < 6 lines! Have visuals do more than half the work! Screens vary: ● Upper left-hand corner most valuable (“F”) More user rules: Jacob Nielsen’s

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar4 Reading Screens: Nielsen’s “F” pattern

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar5 For Engineering Exhibit: Go for verbal/visual synergy!  Use TEXT to name the project.  Use TEXT to state purpose or value of the project.  Use “visual power” to convey the engineering achievement? At least one visual element is required: photographs, diagrams, sketches, schematics.  Annotate the visual: Label what is shown and describe outcomes!  Use STAR heuristic to convey PROCESS Situation/Task: What is the project? Why important? Action: What exactly was done? Results: What was the outcome?

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar6 Global Seminar Samples  Jacob Berry Jacob Berry  Bernie Dávila Bernie Dávila  Kevin Iwanski Kevin Iwanski  Kean Kwoh Lim Kean Kwoh Lim

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar7 PPT—not just for presenters  Apple’s “HyperCard” --web-like precursor to visual Internet  Supports “organic” development—easy to go in and add more detail; can “prune” errant branches  Easy to integrate text and other media--compare to MSWord: MS Word is a “better” typewriter; PPoint is theater—words, images, sounds, video!

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar8 Using Windows Movie Maker  Open application first—not the file.  Use the “import” command to open file.

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar9 Drag “clips” to “Storyboard”

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar10 Trim unwanted segments:  Toggle to “Show Timeline,” select segments, then cut.

Spring 2008 Week 9 Global Engineering Professional Seminar11 To save and post:  Use “Save as” filename.mswmm (the “project” file format) if you wish continue working on the clip in a future session.  Use “Save as” yourfilename.wmv (“windows media video” format) if you are ready to post clip.  Save that file to the “W” filespace.  Open FrontPage and use “Insert” menu to add informative link to “yourfilename.wmv”.  Note file permissions must be “755.”