Week 10 Presentation Prep!

Objective: Prepare for the Final Presentation!!!

Dates: June 2, 2014; June 3, 2014

June 2, 2014

Group meeting in reserved library room:

• Clean up PowerPoint --> reduce sentences on slides to phrases or key points
• Run through slides for errors
• Add graphics and photos:
• Keratin structure
• Existing solutions
• Cross-section of 3-D model
• Add citations, if needed

June 3, 2014

Group consultation/ rehearsal:

• Fix wording/ content on slides 2, 4, and 14
• Run through parts
• 15 minute time slot: 10 minute presentation, approx 2.5 minutes for questions, 2.5 minutes for setup/ breakdown
• 7 members --> ~85 seconds per person
• Speak clearly
• Reduce content, NOT increase speed

For Thursday:

Practice individual parts

Extra last run-through 15 minutes before presentation

Week 9 Lab

Objective: Finish dry-run presentations, last check up with Dr. Allen

Date: May 29, 2014

Today in Lab:

• Finished last two presentations
• Tips:
• Wear the right thing
• Look professional
• No jeans
• For the gentlemen: polish your shoes!
• Ladies: don't bother wearing heals that you can barely walk in  % this is a presentation, not fashion show!
• Everyone: if audience is staring at your clothes the whole time, you wore the wrong thing...
• Be professional
• Start with a good, strong impression
• Project your voice - the audience wants to hear you!
• Don't fold your arms and look bored on stage
• PowerPoint
• Don't put too much text on the slide; they're just pointers for you
• If presentation is too long, don't speed up --> take out info
• Relax...
• Enjoy your time there!

Week 8 Lab + Week 9 Lab Prep

Objective: Dry-run presentation of final Freshmen Design Presentation

Date: May 22, 2014

Today in lab:

• Present PPT prepared for the dry run
• Get feedback from Dr. Allen and the Teaching Fellows
• Design Matrix is unecessary; just the summary will keep the section simple and concise
• Don't rush through the presentation
• NEVER discredit ourselves by saying "Because we're only freshmen and have insufficient knowledge..."
• Further explain design a little (why that formation and number of donuts? etc)
• Don't be nervous

For next time:

• Memorial Day holiday!!! (Mon 5/26)
• Remaining groups - not us - will finish dry-run presentations
• Prepare for final presentation
• Practice individual presentation slides! :)

Week 8 Lab Prep

Objective: Prepare for this week's preliminary presentation

Date: May 19, 2014

Today's Discussion:

• Week 8 Team Assessment
• Presentation prep
• Add decision matrix
• Other solutions
• Add block diagram
• Experimental results + analysis
• Design model (Creo)

Figure 1: Completed Model of Product 

Figure 2: Really cool mess-up of the model

• Experiment materials
• Make prototype
• Get take-out cup from Hans
• Motor oil
• Camcorder

For next time:

• Finish prelim PPT by Wednesday 9pm
• Continue preparing for experiment

Week 7 Lab

Objective:


Date: May 15, 2014


Today in lab:

• Check progress with Dr. Allen
• Stuff to research
• Sponge absorbance vs Design absorbance
• Will our product suffice when another Gulf of Mexico incident happens?
• Currently popular oil spill solutions?
• Overall shape of donuts connections - how big? Star formation? Line formation?
• Costs of competitors, approximate price per unit

For next time:

• Start on preliminary PPT presentation for next lab
• Bring in sketch and 3D model of product (donuts!)
• Group consultation appointment with Engineering Librarian on Tue May 20th 3pm-3:20pm

Week 7 Lab prep

Objective: Discuss and analyze results of last lab's experiment, work on draft of Final Report due by lab this week

Date: May 12, 2014

Today's meeting:

• Chi-Square Goodness of Fit test, testing

• Ho: percent change in sample mass is approximately equal to the expected values
• Ha: at least one of the observed percent change in sample mass differs from the expected value
• Use significance level 5% (alpha = 0.05)
• Results:
• From the experiment, there is sufficient evidence to support the claim that hair absorbs 2x its mass in water, 10x its mass in an oil-water mixture, and 12x its mass in oil!!!
• Q's for Dr. Allen (to ask on Thursday)
  - Is appropriate for the presentation to incorporate a little humor (especially puns)?
       --> This problem just got hairy!
       --> It's about to get mesh-y!
       --> So... wat'er we waiting for??
  - Is it possible to get a projector, so we won't need to prepare a larger scale demo?
  
  

For next time:

• Finish individual report parts by Tuesday night
• Finish editing and submit on Wednesday
• Bring laptops to create PowerPoint for week 10's final presentation

Week 6 Lab

Objective: Continue making progress with lab

In lab:

• Make block diagram of project
• Check progress with Dr. Allen
• Begin experiment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Lab coat and goggles preparation
• Set up scale
• Prepare the five mixtures for experiment

 Warning! This is about to get hairy!!!!!!!!!!

For next time

• Lab space open Friday (tomorrow) 3-5pm
• Will continue and finish hair absorbency test