Schedule

Oral Presentations Engineers make presentations to clients, managers, teams, and the technical community Communication skills identified as a top skill by our IAB and alumni Typically, 15% introduction 80% body 5% conclusions

Introduction get the audience’s attention don’t just read title, give intuition (briefly) motivate the problem give the big picture and focus down to the problem domain

Body give an overview (“chapter headings”) help the audience to know when you change topics progress through topics

Conclusions what one or two things would you like the audience to remember?

Retention style of presentationretention after 3 hoursretention after 3 days oral only70%10% visual only72%20% oral and visual85%65%

Transparencies bulleted lists NEVER use sentences or paragraphs! tables and graphs schematics or line drawings

Overcoming Speech Anxiety be well-prepared memorize your opening lines practice transitions talk to friendly faces (avoid negative ones) OK to make mistakes, don’t call attention to them

Severe Speech Anxiety induced by “fight or flight” response exercise 1-2 hours beforehand take deep breaths before you start lessens over time (with practice)

Style Tips look at eyes (or foreheads!) scan audience as you talk speak confidently use a pointer step away from screen to draw attention to speaker avoid fidgeting (“um …,” “you know …”) be well-groomed, relaxed be enthusiastic (smile)

Presentation Guidelines title slide –project name –team member and advisor names motivation/background of project problem statement subproblems that need to be solved approach to solving them expected result or contribution evaluation: how will you know when you’re done and whether you’ve done a good job?

Next Week Monday 10/25: design diagrams level 0 and 1 Wednesday 10/27: start oral reports 1.Bair, Doshi, Melchers, Nemeth, Setter 2.Martini, Springs 3.Fajardo, Hemani, Lipps 4.Gaudio, Hathaway, Kesler 5.Ganapathy

Upcoming Oral Reports Wednesday 11/3: 1.Basil, Kusak, Lanham, McAlister 2.Breyfogle, Maslin 3.Cappel, Collette, Day 4.Climer, Long, Gaylor, Gilliland 5.Hausfeld, Holian, Nerti, Schlesinger

Upcoming Oral Reports Wednesday 11/10: 1.Au, Morris, Nguyen, Seich 2.Altherr, Mecklem, Neal, Rocklin 3.Cirone, Michalske, Schneider, Yoxthimer 4.DeVilbiss, Voellmecke 5.Dowling, Gau, Hadlock, Merrill

Upcoming Oral Reports Wednesday 11/17: 1.Higgins, Mishler, Weinman 2.Kaeppner 3.Khera, Kluesener 4.Rabek, Vega 5.Adejumobi 6.Horowitz