Guidelines for Final Presentation
5th Year Final Project
School of Biomedical Engineering
Jimma Institute of Technology
2021 (GC)
General Guidelines:
 The presentation is limited to 12 minutes, followed by 13 minutes of Q&A. You will receive
a notice at 1 minute remaining. You will be cut off at 12 minutes.
 You may choose any number of presenters and are free to choose which member(s) present(s)
 The general purpose of this presentation is to communicate your entire project and what was
achieved this year. Generally, you should aim to “walk through” the process of developing
your project with the audience.
 Presentation Slideshow should be clean/uncluttered and professional-looking.
 No plagiarism. Cite all images in your presentation. If anything is taken closely from another
source, give the source on the slide. Plagiarism will result on a zero mark for the presentation.
Slide Requirements:
You should have 11-15 slides, as follows. Your acknowledgement slide goes at the end. Please note
that a significant amount of the evaluation will be on the presentation style and PowerPoint (quality,
not just the content), so spend enough time making the presentation good-quality.
1. Title Slide:
 Your project title, “Final Presentation” as the sub-title, team member names, mentor
(if you have one) name, date
2. Project Background Slides (3 slides):
 Review briefly the clinical background, existing solutions, gaps, problem definition,
and goals & constraints/design criteria
 Make sure that the problem and the project motivation are understandable for
someone from outside BME who has never heard about your project before
 Limit text, use graphics/figures, format well, and make it aesthetically pleasing
3. Approach and Design Solution Slides (3-5 slides):
 Discuss briefly how your team approached the problem and how you arrived at your
design solution
 Communicate the current design, in as much detail as possible (these details don’t
need to be all written on the slides, they can also be verbally stated, with graphics or
brief bullet points used on slides)
 Clearly justify important design choices that have been made
 Utilize well-designed flowcharts, graphics, figures, etc. to effectively communicate
your design. Refer to the presentation improvement lectures
 Make sure that your design are understandable for someone from outside BME who
has never heard about your project before
 Limit text, use graphics/figures, format well, and make it aesthetically pleasing
4. Prototypes and Iterations (1-3 slides):
 Discuss and describe your prototypes and the systems/subsystems and their functions
 Show evidence of your prototypes (pictures) for the whole prototype and any key
systems/subsystems
 Discuss the iterations your prototypes, including design changes that occurred,
justification for changes, any lessons from the prototyping process, and what these
lessons mean for future steps in the project
 Limit text, use graphics/figures, format well, and make it aesthetically pleasing
5. Testing Slides (2-3 slides):
 Briefly review your design criteria
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Guidelines for Final Presentation
5th Year Final Project
School of Biomedical Engineering
Jimma Institute of Technology
2021 (GC)
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Explain which tests were performed, their importance, and how these relate to your
design criteria
 Describe each test performed; include pictures of the test setup if possible
 Describe the aim of the tests and the target value/metrics clearly
 Provide results for each test performed
 Discuss the results of the tests, including what they indicate about the design and
what they mean for future steps in the project
 Be sure to apply good table exhibition practices from the previous lecture, if tables
are used
 Limit text, use graphics/figures, format well, and make it aesthetically pleasing
6. Conclusions and Future Steps (1-2 slides):
 Summarize key outputs/accomplishments from the project
 Discuss what you were able to accomplish and what you were not able to accomplish
(i.e. shortcomings of current prototype) and what these mean for future steps in the
project
 Recommendations for next steps on the project
 Limit text, use graphics/figures, format well, and make it aesthetically pleasing
7. Acknowledgements Slide
 This should also be limited text, aesthetically pleasing, and professional
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