As Class Convenes

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As Class Convenes

• One team member should pick up YOUR TEAM FOLDER
  REMOVE EVERYTHING (Engr. Journals)
• No Quiz Today!

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Burning Questions
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Session Agenda

• Duration
• Contact Before Work 5 min
• Fortran 10 min
• Oral Presentations 25 min
• Cool ME Links 10 min

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From Rich

• Fourier Series
• What is it?
• Reset f(x) to 0
• Do-loops (Inside or Outside)
• Perimeter
• Close perimeter
• Read 2 values

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Powerful Presentations

• Road Map To The Total Oral Presentation

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Road Map

• Analyze Audience
• Determine Purpose
• Structure Presentation
• Prepare Visuals
• Anticipate Questions
• Do Follow-Up

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Anatomy Of A Presentation

• Opening
• Capture Interest
• Introduce Topic
• Body
• Main Point
• Support
• Closing
• Summarize
• Call To Action

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Organization of a 15-min Talk

• 1 Minute - Introduction
• 13 Minutes - Body
• Main Points
• Sub Pt. 1
• Sub Pt. 2
• Sub Pt. 3
• 1 Minute Closing

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Opening Objectives

• Arouse Interest
• Orient Audience
• Direct Attention
• Reveal Yourself

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Effective Opening

• Statement My Topic Today Is
  
• Picture
• Statistics
• Questions ???????????

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Hierarchy of Believability

• Working Device (IT)
• Video of IT
• Computer Simulation of IT
• Photo of IT
• Drawing of IT
• Sketch of IT
• Verbal Description of IT

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Effective Closing

• Summary Statement
• Action Request
• Memory Jogger

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Six Commandments for Preparing Visual Aids

• Unity
• Simplicity
• Legibility
• Consistency
• Clarity
• Quality

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Factors Influencing Visual Aids

• Time Available
• Subject Matter
• Cost Limitations
• Availability of Equipment
• Type of Audience
• Ability of Presenter

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Effective Visuals

• Clarify
• Stimulate Interest
• Emphasize and Reinforce
• Support and Expand
• Use Color
• Use Pictures and Graphs

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Rules For Making Visuals

• Include 1 Idea Per Chart
• Keep It Simple
• Title All Visuals
• Use 7 Words x 7 Lines Maximum
• Use Phrases - Not Sentences
• Use Pictures And Graphs

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Working With Visuals

• Show When Ready Not Before
• Plan to Spend lt 1 Minute Each
• Clear Before Continuing
• Touch - Turn - Talk

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Why Overhead Projection?

• Fully-Lighted Room
• Facing Your Audience
• Personal Presentation Tool
• Anybody Can Operate It
• Visuals Prepared In Seconds

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Preparing Transparencies

• Make Landscape, not Portrait
• Design For Lights On
• Use Big, Bold Letters
• Avoid Abbreviations
• Use Negatives Without Color
• Use Clear With Color
• Use Opaque Frames when appropriate

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Tips On Using Transparencies

• Check Set-Up
• Room Lights On
• Screen Angle
• Rehearse
• On/Off Switch To Control Attention
• Revealing Technique
• Overlays
• Write-On

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Why Eye Contact?

• Reduces Fright
• Looks Natural
• Allows For 2 Way Communications

Speaker
Listener
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Eye Contact How?

• Divide Room Into Sections
• Lock In Visually With 1 Person In A Section
• Talk To That Person For 5 Seconds Or A Complete
  Thought
• Move To Another Section And Repeat Process

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Fielding Questions

• Concede The Right To Question
• Relax And Listen
• Repeat Question
• Clarify And Pinpoint Concern
• Answer Question
• Continue With Next Question

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Rating A Presentation

• Appearance
• Gestures And Posture
• Eye Contact And Facial Expressions
• Voice
• Enunciation
• Speed, Pace, And Tone
• Diction
• Contact
• Rapport

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Importance of Practice

• Defines timing, handoffs, rough spots,
  charts/words to improve
• How?
• To yourself
• To tape recorder or video camera
• To teammates
• To test audience

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Summary

• Organize Talk
• Plan Visuals
• Be Aware Of Delivery Skills
• Practice, Practice, Practice

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Technology Transfer Poem

• So tell me quick and tell me true
• Or else, my friend, to hell with you
• Less, how this product came to be
• More, what the damn thing does for me
• -Martin Walker, Cray Research

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Next Concepts

• Be Ready for Comprehensive Individual Exam
• 25 questions just like the weekly Quiz
• Covers Strategies for Creative Problem Solving
  and The Orange Workbook, Sections C-J
• No Journals
• Counts as 1 Quiz Grade
• NI, M (lt6), E (lt4)

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Cool ME Links
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Turn in Team Folders

• Engineering Journals
• Quiz Corrections
• Quiz Makeups