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During three class periods mid-semester, teams will be presenting about their project in a symposium type setting. Each team will have their own station where they will present and answer questions from the other teams as they rotate through the stations. In a short

Each team will receive their own schedule and station location. The schedule will tell you when and where you will be presenting and which teams you will be going to see.

General Expectations:

1. Need some sort of presentation tool
   • This can be a handout, PowerPoint on a laptop, poster, etc.
   • Be creative, but what ever you decide to use should clearly show what your team has accomplished this semester and what you plan to accomplish by the end of the semester.
   • Make sure that whatever you use it is visible and easy to follow.
2. Great visuals, less text
   • What does the text say that you cannot? Try to remove the text and provide an image or a demo that you will explain in words when you present. Short notes can be useful to the audience as well.
   • If you have a table, what point do you want the table to make? Does it do that? Would another visual be better (i.e. a graph)?
   • If you have a graph, the audience should be able to look at it without explanation and understand where we should be focused (but not necessarily the interpretation or conclusions from it). It should have readable axis labels, a title, appropriate units, and grid lines if needed.
3. Presentation time should be split evenly between your teammates. Each team will present This is a maximum, but each team member should speak for approximately make six 5-10 minute talks. It is up to you how would like to split up presentation time but each member of your team should talk for about the same amount of time
4. Keep in mind, there are 11-15 people each class (55-75 minutes of a 75 minute class), so you may be allowed to go a little long, but eventually you will be cut off
5. 18 pt font
   • This is a minimum; bigger is better.
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   • Make sure you practice the timing of your talks. Once time is up, teams will need to rotate to another station and therefore your presentation will get cutoff.
   Spell check is your friend, and also your enemy
   • Sometimes, it will not catch errors if your mistyped word is also a word
7. Keep your audience in mind
   • Not everyone has had fluid mechanics, however assume you are speaking to an engineering audience
8. Equations
   • They may be intimidating and even unnecessary. Can you get away with naming the equation and explaining what it calculates? Or do we need to see the variables behind it?
9. Practice at least once

Grading

The teach-ins symposiums are meant to be fun and informative and will give Monroe a good idea of how well you understand and can communicate about the work you are doing. All team members must participate in the teach-in presentation..

Whether this means arriving early or setting up your station the day before, please make sure that your station is set up prior to the beginning of classThis semester we are enforcing teach-ins time limits. Please arrive early the day of your presentation to load your presentation on the class computer so we can start class on time.

Your team will receive full credit for the teach-in presentation if all team members participate in speaking, good visuals are used to clearly convey the concepts your team is working with, you try to follow the suggestions posted on this page and you respect the time limits.

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Wiki Organization

After the last day of symposiums, everyone should upload their symposium presentation tool (handout, PowerPoint on a laptop, poster, etc.) to their wiki page under the Midterm tab. Please refer to the Wiki Guide (which is linked on the syllabus) on how to do this.

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