NWI Confidential & Privileged Information – Title of Project Graduate Student: Principal Investigators: Industrial Advisors:Person, Company; Person, Company; Person, Company; Person, Company Date Conference Call Held:Insert Conference call date Number of Additional Contacts: Date Project Initiated: Date of This Report: Expected Completion Date: Degree Sought:

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 2 Executive Summary Overall Objectives  … Overall Deliverables  … Accomplished Before  … Peer reviewed publications

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 3 Original Timeline & Deliverables From Proposal Part A YearMilestones/activities 1… 2 3

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 4 Executive Summary What’s new  … Conclusions so far  ….  … Objectives next period  …

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 5 Accomplishments Before This Period This section should be limited two or three charts bringing your listener up to date on your project at the beginning of the period. It is not necessary to review all that has been accomplished only that necessary to orient your listener If you feel that prior work was covered sufficiently in the executive summary no further slides are necessary.

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 6 Why Do We Care About This Research? Add comments on significance Add comments on prior art – literature/patents Add comments on potential applications Add comments on novelty compared with prior art

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information Body of the Presentation Please add content here 7

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 8 Project Timeline

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 9 Summary & Conclusions

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 10 References Since detailed references should be an integral part of the written report they should not be presented at the IAB and this section should be included only as a backup in case there are questions regarding sources. Other backup charts may be added after the presentation for your use if needed.

NWI Confidential & Privileged Information 11 Guidelines Please resist the temptation of revising this template PIs should only introduce the student and allow the student to make the presentation and also answer the questions. Limit your presentation to no more than 30 slides. You can include back up slides at the end or additional materials for reference purposes. The talk should be limited to 20 minutes and 5 minutes for questions from the member companies.