ELE 3EMTEMC Engineering Management

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ELE 3EMT/EMC Engineering Management

• Oral Presentations on Research Topics

26 March, 2007
George Alexander
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Admin Stuff/Reminders

• Topic preferences due today
• Powerpoint session Thursday 11am, BG320
• NB Career Hub website/registration
• http//www.latrobe.edu.au/careers/
• 1st CV and library exercise due 16/4
• No lectures next week
• Refer todays updated schedule

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Oral Presentations on Research Topics

• Description of Research Topics and preference
  forms
• Topics allocated to pairs

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Length and Level

• Eight minutes talk, three minutes questions
• Stop watch
• No overrunning time
• Use rehearse timing feature to practise
• Pitch the talk at the level of the other
  students.
• Assume the audience has prior knowledge in
  introductory lectures
• dont repeat basics of cellular radio

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Before your talk

• Find out and understand enough about your talk
• Use Powerpoint to prepare your slides
• At least one week before talk
• make appointment to see me with paper copy of
  slides
• Before 4pm on day before presentation email
  presentation to G.Alexander_at_latrobe.edu.au
• 30 deduction for late submission
• may not be allowed to present

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Time of talks

• Provisional allocation of groups (i.e. which time
  slot) on April 16
• see me immediately if there is a problem
• Precise allocation of times later
• No changes to allocated time except with medical
  certificate/special consideration

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The aim is -

• 26/3 all topic preferences -gt George
• 2/4 preferences allocated, groups defined
• 16/4 library exercise due
• 30/4 individual talks begin
• 24/5 individual talks end
• 28/5 reports due for EMT students
• 31/5 feedback

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Presentation

• Your Powerpoint file will be loaded on my laptop
  before the presentation time
• Cant use own laptop
• As far as possible, prepare your diagrams from
  scratch.

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Access to labs/problem solving sessions

• Lab sessions will be arranged as required -
  timings to be discussed and agreed.
• In general, I will be available to answer
  questions/help with assignments. Refer Georges
  timetable on website.
• Best to email or call to arrange a specific time.

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Assessment for talk

• EMT - 20
• EMC - 40
• Half of assessment for technical content
• Half for presentation

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Technical content

• Correct?
• Understood?
• Appropriate level for audience?
• Too complex or detailed?
• Ability to answer questions

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Presentation

• Powerpoint presentation
• clear text and diagrams
• too much on one slide?
• good use of features
• Performance as speaker
• loud enough? Too fast? Too slow?
• Speech relates to slide?
• eye contact? Interesting?
• too short? too long?
• Explain graphs?

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Feedback forms

• Given to speaker at end of course
• top cut off first
• Contributes to the assessment of person giving
  feedback - contribution to class - not to
  student giving talk.

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Features of good and bad talks

• Good
• sufficient material
• understood - confident
• logical structure
• good overheads
• diagrams
• dot points
• talk related to overhead
• didnt read from notes
• able to answer questions confidently/clearly

• Bad
• little content/ content irrelevant
• not sure of topic
• little structure to talk
• poor overheads
• no diagrams
• long sentences
• talk and overhead unrelated
• read from notes
• no eye contact
• difficult to understand
• Vague/uncertain answers to questions

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General Presentation Tips

• Know your audience and why they are there.
• What are your objectives in making this
  presentation?
• Organise and plan your presentation accordingly.
• Consider structure intro, what you will be
  presenting, main presentation, summary/conclusion.
  
• Try to build rapport with your audience relax,
  maintain good eye contact.
• Overheads should be clear.
• Take time to plan your space prior to
  presenting.
• Speak clearly to each overhead.
• Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

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Thanks for listening