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ENGR 100 Rocket Presentation

 Group Assignment:

You are an elite rocket design team giving a presentation at an internationally renowned week-long conference for rocket engineers, researchers, and non-technical people fascinated by rockets.  The purpose of this presentation is to update the conference attendees about the problem you have recently solved and how you went about it.  Everyone on the team has to speak and the time limit is 12 minutes.

 Parts of Presentation

In this presentation, you are encouraged to be creative and keep your audience engaged.  As a result, the organization is flexible but there is a minimum amount of content you need to include (see below for details).  Your team goal is to “sound” like practicing engineers discussing both technical and non-technical information in a clear, accurate manner.

I. Welcome/Introductions/Outline of presentation

II.  Background

Why did you do this experiment?  What problem were you trying to solve?  Why is this problem important?  Be creative for this part and make it sound "realistic" like something you might hear about on the t.v. news.

III. Rocket Fundamentals

Explain some of the challenges to this problem and what generally constitutes a good design.  Your team needs to come up with the exact content for this section but this is an opportunity to really show off what you learned with this project!  Include a lot of content but be well rehearsed so your presentation flows smoothly and presenters don't ramble.

Some possible ideas to get you started about what could go in this section:

• What are some things you need to consider when designing/building rockets?
• What are the physics concepts like forces, c.g., and c.p and why they are important?
• How did RockSim help you design rockets?  For example you could show a graph of the altitude vs. time identifying the different parts of flight.
• What information gathering did you do before designing?  For example, you could include class results of preliminary flight.

IV. Prototype and Final Designs 

The audience should have a good understanding of the 2 designs you did, what was different for each, and why you made the changes.  At a minimum you need to show tables summarizing the parts and total costs, pictures of your rocket designs, and tables summarizing the results (predicted, altimeter, and angle measured).

Hint – to include pictures of RockSim, simple hit “Print Screen” button on the keyboard, and then click the Start button, select “Accessories”, open “Paint”, and then Edit/Paste.

V.  Conclusion

Re-emphasize why you are giving this presentation and your main presentation points.  You are also welcome to include a closing slide that leaves the audience with some final thoughts (optional).

Grading:

This presentation will be graded on the following criteria (different categories may be weighted more)