oral communication

course competency“deliver an oral message or presentation appropriate to the audience, within the specified time constraint, and using appropriate visual aids”

other than the fact that it’s a competency, why is effective oral communication important to engineers?

take a few minutes to record your thoughts.

pair – share

why is effective communication important?

oral presentation typesInformativedescribes the design process used by the team in developing the process/tools used in the Olympic cauldron project

Persuasivetries to convince the audience that their team’s process was best

Instructionalexplains how to operate the tool the team used to move cups

You will each be giving a presentation about a particular manufacturing process to your teammates

What type of presentation do you think this will be?

presentation musts

• time• organization /

content• slide appearance

time

• include enough content to effectively use your time

• don’t go over time• practice to meet time

requirement

content/organization

• sandwich structure• tell a story• use and discuss graphics

slide appearance

what are some ways you can ensure appropriate and professional slide appearance in a presentation?

report out

what are ways to ensure professional slide appearance?

share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

slide appearance

• font size• text/background contrast• no information overload• use appropriate graphics and

animation

font size eye chart18 Pt Font

24 Pt Font28 Pt Font

32 Pt Font 36 Pt Font40 Pt Font

48 Pt Font

60 Pt Font

text/background colorText Background Color

Text Background Color

Text Background Color

Text Background Color

Text Background Color

Text Background Color

too much informationTable 1: EGR 101 Course Competencies, Fall 2012

Competency Category

Competency Name

Description Number of Competency

Points Design Process / Design Thinking

Brainstorming Generate many ideas for a given challenge 1 Design Process Knowledge

Describe an appropriate process for design 1

Design Process Application

Using the language of engineers, describe the design process you used to reach a solution and what, if anything, you 2might do differently next time

1

Visual Communication

Visual Thinking Effectively document ideas through the use of sketching in a bound notebook

1

Prototyping Use resources at hand to effectively express a design idea.

1

Engineering Drawings

Use SolidWorks to create an engineering 2D drawing with appropriate dimensions

1

Engineering Tools Excel graphing Use Excel to create an appropriate graphical representation of data, which must include a title and axis labels

1

Excel math model

Use Excel to implement a mathematical model

1

SolidWorks Model

Use SolidWorks to create a part model to desired / intended specs

1

Teamwork Teaming Identify the effective and ineffective teaming behaviors you utilized during a particular team project

1

Oral Communication

Presentations Deliver an oral message / presentation appropriate to the audience, within the specified time constraint, and using appropriate visual aids.

1

leads to too little

information

Attempt to LandCaptain Fuchs aircraft was too high and too close to the airport to perform a landing so he was forced to circle the airport until he could reduce his air speed and altitude. In attempt to slow his aircraft he extended the flaps but only the inner wing flaps extended because the hydraulic system to extend the outer flaps had been damaged when the engine separated from the wing. This caused the wing to have a greater pitch angle when landing. The sudden drop in airspeed caused the plane to bank to the right. In an attempt to save the plane, Captain Fuchs increased the engine power, in turn dooming himself and the crew.

pictures & graphics

use them, but cite the source of

and discuss them

http://www.damninteresting.net/content/gertie_man.jpg

animation/graphics are useful, but…

18

• not all animation adds to the presentation• not all graphics add to

the presentation

spll check

miss pselled wrods and poor grammer is not aceptabel in a proffessional presentation!

presentation wants

• informative• quality references• knowledgeable /

confident presenter

informative

how can you make your presentations informative? you’ll be presenting on manufacturing processes

report out

what are ways to make your presentation on a manufacturing process informative?

share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

informative

• shows process at work• clearly discusses

strengths/limitations of process

• contains all requested info• asks for questions

quality references

how can you demonstrate the quality of the references in your presentation?

report out

how can you demonstrate the quality of the references in your presentation?

share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

quality references

• reference list is presented• references include more than

wikipedia and newspapers• quality of the references

and/or authors is established

confident speaker

what are the characteristics of a confident speaker?

report out

what are the characteristics of a confident speaker?

share your team’s two best responses to the prompt

confident speaker

• exhibits enthusiasm• makes eye contact• points to items on screen• delivers extemporaneous

(not memorized) talk• doesn’t use note cards