Design Review Materials

Example of Materials for an Oral Presentation: A Design Review

The oral design review is a kind of progress report in which you present 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 rarely participants.

Oral design reviews focus on the following content:

Detailed designs of experimental apparatus and procedures, including working drawings

Opening:

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

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

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

Prepare overheads showing

final list of materials needed

status of equipment procurement

final time schedule for completion of project

Blade Rotation

Motivation

Current Design

Objectives

Design Goals

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