Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
Week 8 Day 1
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 1
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
• Purpose
• Content
• Media
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 2
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
• The key words are Visual Aids - Content organization
must come first
• Approach
– Clearly define information to present
– Carefully plan & organize talk
– Choose visual aids
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 3
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
• Why use visual aids?
BLAH
BLAH
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BLAH
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
BLAH
P. 4
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
• Content
– Words - key words
– Fewer words
– Illustrations
– Color illustrations
– Animated illustrations
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 5
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
• Desired Content
– Large type
– Short words
– Clearly labeled graphs and graphics
– Sharp, uncluttered drawings or photos
– Minimum detail
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 6
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
• Media Available – PowerPoint w/ high intensity projector
– Computer software
– Video
– Handouts and Posters
– Overhead projector
– Your product - robot, in this case
• Try out your presentation well before the Wednesday of
Week 10
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 7
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Visual Aids for Oral Presentations
Message
•
Goal: Audience to understand what you have done!!
•
Goal: Audience to understand what you have done!!
Font Size
10
14
• Goal: Audience to understand what you have
done!!
20
• Goal: Audience to understand
what you have done!!
28
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 8
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Colors for Text and Background
• Choose foreground and background colors
carefully – test with projector
This is
This is
This is
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This is
This is
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 9
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Individual Competition on Wednesday
• Testing will cease at Midnight on Tuesday
• Robots must be ready to run at the beginning of
the class period
• Competition order will be determined randomly
• Teams will have 2 minutes to be ready to run after
they have been called
• There will be three runs on Wednesday – the
score from the best run will be recorded
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 10
Engineering H193 - Team Project
Individual Competition
• Three runs
• Run 1 – Random order of – One of Two Switches,
Cupboard or Mailbox, the Bottle from the
Neighbor where the Bottle from the Neighbor is
the second or third task
• Run 2 – Faculty/Staff Pick order of – One of Two
Switches, Cupboard or Mailbox, the Bottle from
the Neighbor where the Bottle from the Neighbor
is the second or third task
• Run 3 – Team chooses order of – One of Two
Switches, Cupboard or Mailbox, the Bottle from
the Neighbor where the Bottle from the Neighbor
is the second or third task
Spring Quarter
Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
P. 11