Design Review Materials

Section 2.10.5

Example of Materials for an Oral Presentation: A Design Review

The oral design review is a kind of progress report in which youpresent the current (or final) state of your experimental design for review. Your audience is typically a composite of experts, technical staff, and managers. Lay audiences are rarelyparticipants.

Oral design reviews focus on the following content:

Detailed designs of experimental apparatus and procedures, including working drawings

Detailed plans for completion of your project with time lines and final budgets and material lists

Basic Outline for a Design Review

Opening:

Title: Prepare overheads showingtitle of project and project investigators, managers, date, and type of report

Introduction: Prepare overheads showing motivating problem and need for investigation, statement of objective

Body:

Present overheads showing

present state of planning and final experimental designs

any major changes in approach or design (significant questions raised and how you have resolved them)

working drawings of experimental apparatus

final test matrices

Closing:

Prepare overheads showing

final list of materials needed

status of equipment procurement

final time schedule for completion of project

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Blade Rotation

Motivation

Current Design

Objectives

Design Goals

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