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Midterm Project Design Review (Formal Presentation) Adopted From: http://www.me.umn.edu/courses/me4054/assignments/mpreview.html

The Mid-Project Design Review is a forum for your team to tell others what you have been doing and a chance for your team to get some feedback on your progress and plans. All students in the class are required to attend the presentations, and complete an evaluation sheet for each of the groups. Faculty members and MEAC members will attend and evaluate the project presentations. Here is how to approach the reviews. Assume the audience is technically competent, but is not familiar with your project. Thus, the presentation should contain the following: (1) a well-defined problem statement that is put in context (i.e. the why), (2) a summary of what work has occurred to date and (3) a concise description of where the work is going and what you will deliver at the end of the project (be specific). Here's how to impress the audience with your project: (1) demonstrate that you have followed a good design process, (2) demonstrate that you fully understand the problem you are working on, (3) demonstrate that you have used your engineering sciences background (e.g. the theory and the equations) to help you design. This is a formal presentation and you are expected to use Powerpoint. Each team will have 15 minutes to present followed by 5 minutes for questions and answers. The talk is to be presented by 3 or more members of the team. As a group, you should manage yourselves to stay on time. Start with the project goal. What are you trying to do and why? What is the background to the problem and what is the need that your design will satisfy? Who is your design for? What's wrong with the current way of doing things? Digital photos of current products or photos that show where your design will go are helpful for setting the scene. Demonstrate that you understand needs of the customer. Start by stating who will be the primary users of your product (be as specific as you can). Describe what you have done to determine what these customers want. Interviews? Surveys? What do customers like and not like about their current solutions? Convince the audience that you have learned some engineering science in your undergraduate mechanical engineering coursework. Show them you are able to take the theory and equations that you learned from lectures and textbooks and apply them to your design problem.

Present the most important design requirements for your project. Considering using the format shown in the Engineering Specifications chapter of the Ullaman’s book. If you show the figure of House of Quality, make sure to explain it well. Include the "why's" behind the requirements. Demonstrate that you had a good selection process for narrowing down your concepts. Go back and read the "Concept Selection" chapter of the text. Perhaps show a table where you weigh the merits of your chosen concept against the alternatives. Provide evidence that your project is being controlled by a good management process. This means that you convince the audience you are (1) following good design process, (2) using the people on your team effectively, and (3) governed by good planning. Gantt charts are difficult to read at a distance, but perhaps you could have a slide showing major tasks accomplished and major tasks ahead. Include a few critical, milestone dates if you like. Inform the audience what you expect to deliver at the end of the project. Will there be prototypes? If so, what type and what will they look like. Convince the audience that you have built time into your plan to not only build the prototype, but also to test the prototype so that you can check its specifications against the design requirements. Describe any experiments you plan to conduct by the end of the project. State that you will deliver a project report, and highlight unusual details about the report, if any. The audience should leave confident that you will achieve your design objectives. Cite your sources. If you have a graphic on your slides that you downloaded from the web or scanned from print media, include the source in a small font just below the graphic.

Presentation checklist  What you are working on and why (background, problem definition)  Discovery phase of project (what information you have gathered)  What you have learned from the customer  Design requirements and engineering specifications (table/bullet form)  Concept generation and concept selection process  Evidence of engineering analysis (experiments, what-if spreadsheets, relevant theory and equations, ...)  Key activities in weeks remaining  End-of-project deliverables  Evidence of good project management (including time management and personnel management)  Practice and rehearsal with all the team members.  NOT MORE THAN 15 min to present...