EE x96 Design Review Presentations

Saturday, 11 Mar 2006
Donald Kim Lab, POST 214

The second presentation is the design review presentation. This is a TECHNICAL presentation. You are not expected to have a complete working design for this pesentation, but are expected to have begun the design process, considered some alternatives, and done preliminary tests of components and/or subsystems. You should present some details of one of your subsystems; enough so that someone at your level of engineering expertise can understand your design. Each team will present their design at its current state and be prepared to answer questions from the audience.

The purpose of a design review is to present your design so far and get feedback from others, both those familiar with the project, and those not familiar with what you are doing. The talk should include the following:

1. Introduction of the team.: So we learn everyone's name (I wont make you do the Name Game :-))
2. BRIEF overview of the project.: Remember, about half or your audience will be new and not have seen your proposal presentation.
3. Overall block diagram of your system.: What are the major modules or subsystems in your design? Are any of these broken down to smaller sub-modules? How to the modules and subsystems interact?
4. For ONE of your modules, a more detailed description of the design.: What components will you be using and what kinds of tests have you done with them, including results. Drawings, schematics, pictures, algorithms or short code segments might be appropriate here (as avialable detail and time allow). Discuss why you chose your decisions the way you did. You might a select module that you would most like feedback on here.
5. What remains to be done.: Discuss potential problems you forsee and outstanding issues to be resolved. If you have things you would like feedback or help on, identify them here.
6. The time line for completion of the project.: Update your Gantt Chart here. What subtasks have been completed? Which are underway? Which are pending? Dicuss any problems with scheduling here.

All presentations will last 15 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions and between talks. Because this is a design review, I will expect everyone to ask at least TWO questions sometime during your session.

As before, the presentations will be held in three sessions. To fit everyone in, the first session will begin at 8:30 am and should be done by 11:30. The second session will begin at 11:45 and should be done by 2:15. The third session will begin at 2:30 and should be done by 5:00. (NOTE: the sessions are a little longer to allow for all the questions). I have already assigned the Design Groups to the Sessions (see the Projects home page). Everyone will be in a different session than the first presentation, so check the schedule. If your team has preference for the order in your session (first/last/middle) you can let me know in email by Monday, 6 Mar, and I will take that in to account (but these are only prefereces; I may or may not abide by them). The entire team is expected to be present for the entire session in which they will present. Everyone is welcome to attend any other sessions if desired.

Each team should send me the powerpoint file for their presentation by Thursday, 9 Mar. I will archive these and include a link to the files in the schedule below. I recommend all team practice their presentation several times before your session.