59:005  Engineering Problem Solving-I    Sections 9 and 10

Proposal Presentation

Updated Monday, October 30, 2006 10:57:37 AM

You will be giving a presentation of your proposal to the following corporate officers of Amazing Products Ltd: the Chairperson (Peter O'Grady) and the Chief Executive Officer  (Dave Neyens).

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 a few minutes, so use your time well.

Submit your PowerPoint file by  E-mail as an attachment to the class e-mail account eng_0056@engineering.uiowa.edu   by 12 noon Monday November 6. Late fees apply. Do check that the file is attached.

The presentations will be:

• Monday November 6 (3:30 - 4:20) Section 10
• Wednesday November 8 (3:30 - 4:20) Section 9

The format of the presentation should be as follows:

Title Slide (1 point)

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

Objective & Description Slide (1 point)

• State project objective
• Estimated cost, economic analysis and maximum anticipated load

Construction Plan Slide(1.5 points)

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

Milestone Slide (1 point)

• List of major milestones & completion dates
• Gantt chart (note you may have to simplify the one in your proposal)

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]