The final presentation is your opportunity to celebrate your success and share the experience with your fellow students, faculty, friends, and guests. Your intended audience for this presentation is a technically-inclined person, but not necessarily an engineer. Pretend your presentation will be shown on a television special about new and great technologies – you want the audience to leave feeling that they’ve learned a great deal about the latest technology (and perhaps seen sheer genius in action).
4:00 - 4:30: Interactive demonstrations and posters. This is a time for guests to individually interact with your products and see demonstrations. It is arranged at the beginning of the time in order to accommodate the schedules of our guests in the SPU administration.
4:40 - 5:50: Team presentations. Each team will have a total of 15 minutes for their presentation. Because you will have demonstrated your project earlier, you may show a reduced version of your demonstration.
Note: Turn in a copy of your final presentation on CD/DVD on the day you present.
Have some fun with
this, but be sure to cover at least the following areas:
 | Introduce
all team members and their areas of expertise | ||
| Explain
what the purpose of the final product is – Why does Joe Techie’s life
depend on its success? | ||
| Describe
what the specific engineering challenges of your project are. Include both
hardware and software challenges. | ||
| Present
the story of your design – early concepts to final design. Highlight
interesting challenges and solutions. Don't be afraid to discuss mistakes as
long as you recovered well. Joe Techie needs to know that you’re human. | ||
| Demonstrate
the product. Make it look as cool as it really is. Use A/V equipment so that
everybody can see you product.
| ||
| Pass
around items for the audience to touch and feel. For example, if you have
left over PCBs, pass them around. If you don’t need your first
prototype any more, pass it around. Don’t
pass your finished product around, though – you want your demo to work… |
We will be in OMH 109 for our final presentations. The media equipment includes:
| WinXP computer |
| VCR (with aux input that can be used for a video camera) |
| DVD player |
| Audio amplifier |
| Microphone |
| Overhead projector |
Please coordinate your media use with the other teams presenting on the same day.
The Final Presentation should require about 15 min. of class time, plus time for questions. Each member of the group should make a significant contribution to the presentation. Each team member will receive an individual grade for their part in the presentation.
You should turn in one binder that includes all of your final documentation. (Web-based notebook writers - please discuss options with instructor.) Do not include old, edited copies in your binder. Your final documentation will become your team's senior design portfolio, and will be archived and used for engineering program assessment.
First, review the description of the design notebook to remind yourself of your task.
Here are some examples of what changes are expected in each section:
Add a section that describes what major changes you made from your initial design and why you made the change.
Attach all approved change requests to your functional specification.
Include the final schedules from each of the three quarters.
Schematic - Update to reflect what you actually built. Some groups have a lot of changes here.
Power Supply - Update to reflect reality.
PCB - Don't change the PCB, but update the documents to reflect the PCB that was actually built.
Software Architecture - Update and rewrite to reflect the actual software.
Device Drivers - Ditto
Update to reflect any changes you made to your user and other interfaces.
Update to reflect you actual enclosure.
Include all of your test plans and the results from them. It is OK for results to be handwritten.
Kevin Bolding September 22, 2009
