59:005  Engineering Problem Solving-I    Sections 3 and 4

Present. Format

Home Up Report Present. Format

Proposal Presentation

Updated Monday, November 05, 2007 01:22:19 PM

You will be giving a presentation of your proposal to the following corporate officers of Amazing Products Ltd: the Chairperson, the Chief Executive Officer and the Head of Amazing Products International  (Peter O'Grady, Karen Kropf and Beth Westlake).

Your task is to persuade them of the merits (or deficiencies) of your proposed design as well as to describe the tasks that you have done to reach the present design. You have just five minutes, so use your time well.

Submit your PowerPoint file by  E-mail as an attachment to the class e-mail account eng_0052@engineering.uiowa.edu  by 10:30 am November 7. Late fees apply. Do check that the file is attached.

To keep the presentation to five minutes, only use a maximum of six slides. The  presentation slides should include the following:

Title Slide (1.5 points)

  • Project name
  • Course number and name
  • Date
  • Team name and members

Construction Plan (1.5 points)

  • Describe design
  • Include drawing or sketch of design
  • Identify main advantages, disadvantages

Description (1.5 points)

  • Estimated cost, economic analysis and maximum anticipated load

Further Engineering (1.5 points)

  • Describe the main engineering tasks that need to be done to improve your design (note this work is to be done after you have finished with the project).

Overall Quality of Presentation (4 points)

  • Quality of slides
  • Speaking effectiveness
  • Participation of each member

[Note: Be sure to e-mail  the PowerPoint file that you plan to use -- see above]