READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY

READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY (more than once if necessary!):

Please make sure you Register your project.

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A- Presentation Format for Senior Design Project

Timing:
1. TOTAL presentation should not exceed 30-45 minutes.
2. Presentation time should be ABSOLUTELY no longer than 20 minutes (that means about 20-25 slides). If you don't finish your main point in 20 minutes, your project will NOT be signed off.
3. During Q&A you can talk about your BACKUP slides
Presentation Format:
1. All presentations must have the following sections. You will not receive a complete grade if you are missing any of these sections:
  1. Team members / web sites / Thank to individuals / advisor name / customer name / who is doing what
  2. Motivations / problem statement
  3. You must have at least TWO desision tables ONE has to be using Analytical Hierarchy Process
  4. You must have a high-level diagram of your system/design describing its general functionality
  5. Test results that has been performed so far
  6. Schedule or timelines / include your major milestones
  7. Budget; do NOT provide itemized budget list; only rough estimates. Indicate how much funding is required to complete the project.
  8. Which Courses will/were used in this project; what did you learn; your personal opinion about this project
  9. Reference section with correct formatting / references must be properly cited in your slides. references must include some major journals.
General
1. You MUST send me a copy of your latest slides ONE WEEK before the presentation! You can only present one week after posting the presentation slides; absolutely no exceptions. .
2. You must have either sent your presentation slides to everyone or provide hardcopy during the presentation
3. All related documents must be available on your web site - the link to your web site must be provided when you Register your project
4. You will FAIL the course if you don't show up or if you are LATE longer than 5 minutes! Absolutely no exceptions!
Project Folder - Contents of the folder - You must have completed the project folder and present it during the presentation
Forms:
1. You are responsible to get all the necessary forms signed.

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B- Some general notes on your presentation:

Please Make Sure You READ the syllabus VERY carefully one more time.
7- Don't add too man distracting information, e.g., too many moving items or sounds
If you add a movie or exotic visual effect resulting in some technical problems during the presentation and you do not finish your presentation in 20 minutes your project will NOT be signed off.
Make sure you PRACTICE your part... Stand in front of your team members (or mirror if necessary) and practice your part. Become very comfortable. Be energetic and (at least) pretend you fully believe what you are saying. You must be/appear very confident. Do not under estimate what you are have achieved. If you don't think it was not a big deal others won't be thinking much of it either and you will not get a grade!
Make sure all the information on the slides are correct. Have all the members in your teach check your work.
One of your team members must be in charge of writing notes and questions - a copy of this must be submitted to your advisor
If you don't know something say so; avoid making up ideas!
You are responsible for organizing all teh forms and getting them signed: Project Proposal Evaluation & Faculty Advisor Approvals Form

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C- Contents of the folder

On the day of presentation please provide a FOLDER (hardcopy binder) that has the latest versions of following documents. This folder must be available to demonstrate what you have done so far. Presentations without (or incomplete) FOLDERs cannot be signed off! The following items must be in your project folder (please carefully divide all sections in your FOLDER):

Formed which are/will be signed off: Project Proposal Evaluation & Faculty Advisor Approvals Form
Header: Project name, names, adviser, date, department, URL to the project
List of content (what is in this document)
Presentation slides
All your documents (descriptions, tests, simulations)
Copy of your your blog / web site (just the main page so it shows that you have created a web site),
Miscellaneous section: All the Grants, letters of support, etc.