Design Project Presentation Guidelines

ENGE 1114 – Spring 2011

Purpose of assignment: The purpose of your design presentation is to convince the audience
that you’ve addressed an important problem, that your final design fulfills the customers’
requirements, and that your team has used a good design process to make good design decisions.
The presentation will tell a clear story:
 What is the problem?
 Why is it an important problem to solve? (Who is it for? What are the expected impacts
and benefits?)
 What are the requirements for a successful solution?
 What alternatives were considered (and what methods were used to generate the
alternatives)?
 How were decisions and selections made?
 Why is your design (and the associated decisions/methods) the “correct” solution? How
does your solution fulfill the requirements and solve the fundamental problem.

The presentation should include evidence of the application of tools and methods that were used
throughout the design process. The presentation should stand on its own, independent of other
documents or presentations.

Due:
1) Submit one copy per team of the PowerPoint file for your presentation to the Project
Presentation Assignment link on our ENGE1114 Scholar site by 11:55pm the evening
before your Week 14 Workshop.
2) Submit a printed copy of your slides to your WSL prior to the beginning on your Week
14 workshop. Print two slides per page. Color is NOT required.

Oral Presentation Format:

 10-12 Minutes
 All team members must give a portion of the presentation
 Presentation must be prepared in PowerPoint

Required Elements of the Oral Presentation

Slides that must be included in the PowerPoint presentation are as follows:
 Title - with project title, team number, names of team members, and date
 Problem Definition/Introduction
 Project Requirements
o Objectives
o Constraints
o Metrics
 Conceptual Design
o Concept Generation (morphological chart)
o Alternatives
o Selection
o
  Preliminary Design
o Description of the solution (sketches)
o Other preliminary design work
 Conclusions

Some sections of the presentation may require more than a single slide. Teams should include
only the major elements and not every minor detail in each slide. Examples of things that would
be good to highlight include: concepts considered, models, decision methods used and a
summary of results, and conclusions that highlight the impacts and benefits possible.

General advice:
 Be organized, be compelling, and present the story in a logical order.
 Use photos, graphs, models, video clips, or whatever else helps to tell the story in a
concise and compelling manner.
 Have fun with it!

Visit the following resources for advice on good slide design:

 http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/presentationguidelines.pdf
 http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu