Effectively Showing Your Materials

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Effectively Showing Your Materials

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Department of Engineering Professional
  Development
• Making Effective Technical Presentations
  Techniques and Tools
• Instr Traci Kelly

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Golf Ball Developments A Brief History

• Featherie
• Gutta Percha
• Hand-Hammered Gutta

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The Big Dig A Story Unfolds
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Eye Level Monitor
Hand Held Scanner for Charting
Wireless Capability Makes It Completely Mobile
Pyxis.com Patient Station
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• 1 CCD camera for remote control (option)
• 2 joystick for manual driving
• 3 Human Computer Interface (comes with optional
  PC)
• 4 and 5 linear camera and infrared beacon
  (option, av. 6/98)
• 6 ultrasonic sensors (option)
• 7 electric jack for steering
• 8 4 driving and steering wheels
• 9 4 electric brakes
• 10 4 batteries
• 11 induction recharger (option, av. 6/98)
• Robosoft

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Expanded/Added Greenway Bostons Big Dig
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Bad Things
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Plague .01 in 1992
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• Better than all those choices is to simply pull
  the data and simplify it.

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• There are various unidentified rays wandering
  into the interstellar space with the velocity
  much greater then light, the Black rays are
  fastest in all. Our entire universe is made up
  and controlled by the Black rays. The Black rays
  collect energy from energy sources of the
  universe and supply it to astro bodies so I
  propose that Black rays are energy carrier rays
  which conducts whole universe of the creator.
• --S. S. Kharti

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Time Commitment?

• Professional speakers spend, on average, 20-60
  minutes preparing for each minute of speaking.
• Average 40 minutes, and it takes 13 hours to
  prepare a 20 minute talk.

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• Research proves that presentations with
  transparencies or PPT are deemed
• more professional
• more credible
• more persuasive
• than presentations without.

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• Retention After
• Without Graphics
• With Graphics

• 3 hrs 3 days
• 70 10
• 85 65

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How Much Graphically?

• For every 30 seconds, a graphic (generally).
• Better to have a series of simple graphics than
  one complicated graphic.

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• After you are done
• with a visual
• move on
• remove it
• cover it

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Fonts

• At least 24 pt font

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Rephrase

• The current system has three problems
• It is expensive to maintain.
• It requires nonstandard components.
• It is not compliant to the new MILSPEC.

• Three Problems
• Expensive maintenance
• Nonstandard Components
• Noncompliant with MILSPEC

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Bibliographies in PPT
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Student Slide Credits

• Slide 11 by Darcy Grunwald, Nick Kortan, Ryan
  Lawton, Max Magee, Yuli Kosasih
• Slide 13 by Seth Hynes, Robert King, And Steve
  Ullmer
• Slide 28 by Gabe Donatell, Robert Iverson, Chris
  Roepe, Rebecca Rewey
• Slides 12 and 29 by Martin Holste and Dwayne
  Schubring
• Slide 32 by Stephanie Wysocky, Alisa Dechavas,
  and Mitch Hager

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