ENGR 100 - Bridge Project Oral Presentation

Group Assignment

Your team will be responsible for giving a 10-15 minutes oral presentation about your bridge project (using Power Point). Pretend that your audience is a paying client (some company that has hired you to design their bridge). How are you going to persuade them that your company has come up with the best design?

The main purposes of this presentation are for your team to (1) share what you have learned about the bridge project and (2) get practice giving formal presentations (w/ feedback).

**Please make sure your presentation will work for Office 2000/XP and save it to a CD or your dante account (Jump drive sometimes cannot be recognized by the computer).

Presentation Format

Each person on your team must have a speaking part during the oral presentation. Your team should address the following areas of information (but can be flexible on the exact format):

  1. Introduction

Be creative - catch the client's attention! Be sure to introduce your team and state the purpose of the talk. Also you must show a slide at the beginning that outlines your presentation!

  1. Prototype Design

In this section, describe the process your team went through to decide on the prototype design. Show sketches (and discuss) at least two other designs you considered before building your prototype. Explain why your team decided to build the prototype as you did. Include the evaluation criteria (e.g. bridge weight, strength, ease of construction, safety, other, etc…) your team used to select the prototype design.

Present your prototype design (picture or sketch) and its performance (weight held & bridge weight). Discuss whether your prototype failed as you expected. Where were the weak parts and how did they fail? Based on the performance, what changes did you consider before building the final design?

  1. Final Design

Present the revised (final) design and explain what changes you made and why. The client should be able to clearly see the differences between the prototype and the final.

Discuss the performance at failure (weight held & bridge weight) and whether the improvements you included during the redesign performed as planned. Discuss recommendations for further improvements to the design.

IV.    Conclusion

Have a planned conclusion - do not leave it to chance! Re-iterate the purpose of your talk (same as in the introduction). Summarize the main points (and testing results) so that the client leaves with a clear understanding of what you did.

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Grading

The presentations will be graded according to the following criteria:

Evaluation Criteria

Details:

Introduction / Closing

·         Introduction got our attention and motivated us to listen?

·         Presenters stated purpose of presentation? “We are giving this presentation today because…”

·         Started with a presentation outline slide?

·         Summarized main points in closing?

Content

·         Appropriate detail for oral medium and time constraint.

·         Included accurate and complete content, i.e.

Design/Component test

Prototype testing

Final bridge testing

Conclusion

Delivery

·         Made eye contact with room?

·         Spoke slowly and loud enough?

·         Explanations were easy to follow?

·         Showed enthusiasm?

·         Used transitions between speakers?

Visual Aids

·         Text, pictures, animation effectively used? (Texty slides?)

·         Slides enhanced presentation?

Time Limit

 Finish within 15 minutes?

Overall Effectiveness

Overall effectiveness of presentation for intended audience.