3015C EML Thermal-Fluids I
fall 2000
The following is a list of guidelines you might want to implement for both the preparation and delivery of your in-class oral presentation. A sample evaluation sheet is included for your reference. 1. Determine the audience for the presentation. Your audience should be the whole class, not only the instructor. You can assume they have some background in thermal principles but you still need to include enough information to guide them to fully understand your works. 2. Determine the allotted time for presentation and definitely stay within the time limit. Our scheduled time for each group will be a total of 12 minutes. I will expect a presentation no shorter than 8 minutes and no longer than 15 minutes. A TA will use a stopwatch to time your presentation. Significant deviation (half minute too short or too long) from the time limit will lead to penalty. Rehearse your speech and time it. If you need to use video presentation, make sure you take that into consideration when you time your presentation. Every group needs to load their PowerPoint files into the network before presentation so that they can be easily accessed. 3. Avoid using complicated mathematical relations. Do not present lengthy details of how you derive them. It will be sufficient to make comments so that the audience can understand how those relations were derived and what are their underlying physical meanings. 4. Always summarize the results and conclusions with clear, concise statements. Do reemphasize anything of special importance. 5. Speak with conviction and authority. Show confidence and avoid using "I suppose", "may be", "I'm not sure". Make sure you know your subject well and be prepared to explain and defend each assertion with fact. 6. Use natural gesture to emphasize your arguments or just to attract audience attention. Make eye contact with your audience and stay aside when referring to visual materials so that everyone can see it. 7. Use visuals (graphs, highlights, whenever drawings) possible to emphasize an important point. Keep visuals simple that just enough to make your point. Try not to display your visuals until you refer to them; otherwise, the audience may be distracted. Do interpret each visual as you present it. There is no specific format for oral presentation, but I would like you to follow the following suggestions to prepare your speech. (Note: This will be considered as a minimum requirement for your presentation.) 1. Begin your presentation with a title page including a title of your presentation, names of all group members, course name and presentation date. 2. You will need to have an objective slide which should include a clear statement of the purpose of your works and this speech. 3. Introduction slide(s) provide all necessary background information for the audience to understand your project. You can use mathematical formulas, schematic drawings to present the thermal concepts you would like to demonstrate. 4. Slide(s) for experimental Setup and procedures. 5. Presentation of experimental results and comparison to theoretical calculations. If possible, all data should be presented using graphs. 6. Discussion of the results and their compa...