Project Title
Student Project
Symposium
May 2014
Subtitle
Program
Student Name 1, Student Name 2
Introduction
Write your own text here. Remember to change out
all headings, titles, and names for those in your own
project
Results
Method
Car Battery
Initialization
5V Voltage
Regulator
+12V
If first loop in new
state, print text to
LCD
Consult
Diagnostic
Interface
LCD Display
Left
User Input
Buttons
Right
Microcontroller
2 kHz tone
N
Function
pointer NULL?
Call function
Y
Fig. 10. Line up images in an order of progressions,
assuming the viewer is going to read each column,
top to bottom, starting at the left most column
Buzzer
Enter
Tips:
Fig. 6.
This amount of
information in one graphic is
good
Consult to Serial
Converter
Fig. 1.
clear photos with
descriptive,
yet
brief
captions
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Conclusions
Get keypress
Escape
Update next state
•Break out information into short bursts
•Such as a bulleted list
•Save paragraph text and full explanations for
your report
•Use easy to read fonts.
•Comic Sans and handwriting are not easy
to read!
•Hyperlinks don’t work in printed matter. Spell
out the whole url or use bit.ly or tiny.url to
abbreviate a long url
•Get graphics
•High resolution graphics
•Check your graphics by going to view and
zoom to 100% to make sure they do not
pixilate
•This includes an equations, autocad, visio, etc
drawings.
Fig. 2. This amount of information in one graphic is
ok
Clock ECU State
Machine
Fig. 11. Some groups have changed the background
color, or even to a faded graphic for more visual
effect
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MPG  
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InjectorSi
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NumberOfCy
linders
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InjectorOn
Time
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RPM
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Fig. 3. High image resolution! Make sure your self
taken images do not have glare. Try a simple light
box for taking high quality images of smaller
projects.
Fig. 7. This equation works
Additional Information/ Next steps
Rx Circular
Interrupt-driven
Buffer
ECU Register
Updating State
Machine
Menu State
Machine
Fig. 8. This amount of information in one graphic is
good, if it is enough detail to say what you need it to.
Objectives
The main objectives a poster are:
•To provide a graphic representation of your
project
•To provide quick to read/ skim information
•To give an overview of your project
•To attract attention to your project
Fig. 4. This image has far too much detail. Lines will
get lost in scaling and printing will be fuzzy
ST_INITIAL
ST_NUM_BYTES
Get next Rx_byte
from serial port buffer
Some projects work well in different formats. This template is
provided for your convenience. If you want to use a different style,
follow these same general guidelines and keep your final product
to the same dimensions. If you want design help ask your Advisor
or come by the library to see Dawn.
Posters will be printed at
48x36in,
Cost to print in the library
on your own is $16.80
Get next Rx_byte
from serial port buffer
ST_BEGIN_FRAME
Rx_byte = 0xFF?
T
Get next Rx_byte
from serial port buffer
Max num of reg
updated?
F
F
Acknowledgements
Rx_byte = 0xA5?
T
F
F
T
Rx_byte = 1
Get next Rx_byte
from serial port buffer
www.PosterPresentations.com
F
T
Rx_byte = 0xFF?
F
Save num of bytes
TEMPLATE DESIGN © 2007
Update register
Increment counter
Rx_byte > 16 or
Rx_byte < 1?
Additional information on poster design can be found
at:
•Dos and don’t of poster presentation
ST_VALID_REG
I would like to thank the following people:
• my project advisor
•The company or partners I worked with
•Any other constituents who were involved in the project and
you want to acknowledge
T
ST_INITIAL
Rx_byte >= 0 or
Rx_byte < 64?
T
Fig. 5. Bright colors may attract in a digital format,
but do not translate to print well. Go with primary
colors on light backgrounds
•Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
Save register number
Fig. 9. This could be broken into 3 parts for better
visibility and readability
•Scientific Poster Design
•Better Posters; a resource for improving poster
presentations
•Creating Effective Poster Presentations | An
Effective Poster