The Poster Show

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The Poster Show

• Basics to get you going

Prepared by Prof. Jane Davidson for the
Department REU Poster Show
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Logistics

• Poster Dimensions
• 3 ft x 4 ft foam core board - portrait style
• Banner/Header
• Title (Minimum 48 Font )
• Student Name
• (Minimum 40-45 point font)

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Outline of a poster or talk
Problem
Explain the problem so that someone outside your
field could understand it. Provide Motivation
and Objective
How did you solve the problem? Is it
innovative? Is it realistic? Can the audience
understand?
Approach
What happened? Put results in context. Use
visual presentation style
Results
Emphasize your contribution Has humanity
benefited? What future work is needed?
Conclusions
Acknowledge
Credit your contributors
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Two Key Components of a Poster
Style
Content
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Style
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Dos

• Keep the title short, snappy and on-target
• Break the information into chunks
• Arrange the material in logical sequence
• use left-to-right or up-down

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• Use color to add emphasis and clarity
• Select 1 to 4 colors
• Use bright colors for important text
• Use color to group sections
• Mount individual sheets on colored paper
• Make sure color does not make the text impossible
  to read
• Primary colors are usually too harsh

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• Use eye-catching graphics
• Write a one sentence legend for each graphic
• Use color and large fonts (20 to 40 pt)
• Make sure the graphics are directly related to
  the text
• Cartoons are sometimes better than photographs
• Readable graphs and tables
• Make summary points to go with graphs

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• Keep text to a minimum
• Use easy to read fonts Times Roman, Century
  Schoolbook, Palatino (serif fonts)
• Avoid using all CAPS
• Resist the temptation to overload the poster
  leave some white space
• Include an acknowledgement give credit where
  its due
• Spell check and then spell check again!

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How to Avoid Bulleted Lists
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Recommended Heat Exchanger Materials
Compatibility with potable water
NSF 14/61 approved
Behavior in hot water or propylene glycol
Water absorption Thermal index Chemical
resistance
Material Properties Manufacturers
Recommendation
Cost Tensile Strength Creep (long term
deformation)
PB, PEX, High Temp Nylon
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Graphs and Figures
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Polymer Strength after aging in Hot, Chlorinated
Water
Strength after 300-1200 hrs in ORP825 mV

• For some polymers, hot chlorinated water
  significantly reduces strength.
• Alternate PB formulation (with additives) shows
  less degradation
• Loss of strength occurs very rapidly in nylon
  6,6.

Materials tested at U of MN FY2003
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Example of Unappealing SlideEnd Use in the
Residential and Commercial Sectors
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End Use in the Residential and Commercial Sectors
H2O 15
Other 13
Refrigeration 10
Lights 7
Cooling 9
Heating 46
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Graph for a paper
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Free Convection Heat Transfer Correlations of
Tubes in an Enclosure Nu CRan
Free convection in an unbounded fluid.

• The presence of an enclosure enhances natural
  convection heat transfer.
• There is no statistically significant effect of
  tube pitch-to-diameter ratio.

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Concepts for a Panelized Roof

• Improved sandwich panels
• Warm-sided panels

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Ventilated Panel
ventilation
Advantages

• Allows sub-sheath ventilation
• Reduces thermal bowing/required core thickness
  for Climate 1
• Reduces core temperature for structural stability
• Reduces local buckling
• Similar to mass produced steel faced panels
• Design for adequate cooling
• Core creep and fire safety

Challenges
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Polymer Performance in Chlorinated Water
Test Conditions
Tap water reservoir

• Temperature 82 C,
• Chlorine Concentration 825 mV (5ppm chlorine)
• Load no load, continuous load

Reservoir with chorine solution
Water bath
Materials
PB 4137, Zytel 6,6, Zytel HTN
Pulleys
Heater/circulator
Potentiometer
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What will you do during a poster session?

• Stand next to your poster
• Prepare a 2 minute introduction to
• your research project
• Answer questions
• Be prepared to speak to people who may be well
  versed in your subject
• Be prepared to speak to people who have little or
  no knowledge of your project

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• MORE COMMENTS ON POSTERS
• All figures and equations should be self
  explanatory. The viewer should not need to ask
  what is being plotted or what some symbol means.
• A good poster gives the presentation of the most
  important features of the work and will
  precipitate questions from the audience out of
  interest.