1. Capitalization

2. Capitalization Follow typographic conventions
Capitalize “proper” nouns
Leave “generic” nouns in lowercase

3. Convention of Capitalization
First word of a sentence (sentence case) Precision is the repeatability of a result.
Acronyms or trademarks LED, LabVIEW
Boolean operators and terms from computer languages AND, OR, and NOT (use format of the language)
“Important words” of a title (title case)
Lab 3: Product Evaluation and Quality Improvement

4. What Makes a Word Important?
War of the Worlds
A Long Day’s Journey into Night
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Despicable Me
I Am Legend
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Rebel Without a Cause

5. What Makes a Word Important?
War of the Worlds
A Long Day’s Journey into Night
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Despicable Me
I Am Legend
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Rebel Without a Cause
Capitalize if first or last word of phrase

6. What Makes a Word Important?
War of the Worlds
A Long Day’s Journey into Night
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Despicable Me
I Am Legend
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Rebel Without a Cause
Capitalize if verb

7. What Makes a Word Important?
War of the Worlds
A Long Day’s Journey into Night
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Despicable Me
I Am Legend
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Rebel Without a Cause
Lowercase if small word
First and Last word
Verbs
Length of word

8. Use Title Case for Labels
The Title of a Report
Section Heading for a Report
Figure 1: Title for Graph/Chart
Column Head
Row Label
The data
More data
Yet more
And more

9. Capitalization Follow typographic conventions
Capitalize “proper” nouns
Leave “generic” nouns in lowercase

10. What Is a Proper Noun? Name of a specific person, place, or thing
Has a finite existence (lifetime)
People and places
George Boole
Adjectives named after people
Boolean equation
Trademarks
Styrofoam, LEGO
Official names of organizations
New York University Tandon School of Engineering

11. Unit Symbols Can Be Tricky
1National Institute for Standards and Technology, “Guide for the Use of International System of Units”, nist.gov
Generic units not capitalized
m, cm, mm
In the US1, a liter is capitalized L
Heinrich Hertz (hertz) Hz
Alexander Graham Bell (decibel) dB
Michael Faraday (farad) F
Alessandro Volta (volt) V
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit °F
Anders Celsius °C

12. Capitalization Follow typographic conventions
Capitalize “proper” nouns
Leave “generic” nouns in lowercase

13. No Definite Lifespan = No Capitalization
Spelled out words of an acronym light emitting diode, data acquisition board
Components or elements copper, magnesium, solar panel
Descriptive labels of places high school, laboratory
General concepts or ideas precision, electromagnetism, design ratio, sum of products

14. Examples
The team is building a bomb disarming robot (BDR). The robot is called Detonator.
Then, precision and accuracy were calculated.
The first step was to create a truth table.
The lecture was given by Professor Georgi.
Give the professor your work.
The kits are manufactured by Texas Instruments.
My favorite book is Keys for Writers.

15. Things to Remember
Most common error: adding a capital where it does not belong
Consistency is very important Titles of slides throughout the presentation Bulleted lists on a slide Headings of a report section Parts of a table Labels in a diagram

16. Capitalization
QUESTIONS?