東京理科大学 技術英語: Final presentations・期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Here is our final presentation assignment. 

Topics & tasks

Select an area or issue of mechanical engineering or IT, and focus on a specific problem or issue and a solution to it – for example: 

• a technical problem, with a solution, in mechanical engineering or IT – for example, a classic case of a problem with a famous or noteworthy structure, or vehicle, device, component, or piece of equipment within ME or IT, and the solution to the problem with it – or –

• a socially-impactful issue, with a solution or proposal of a solution, that ME or IT made possible, or could make possible – for example, a classic case of a past social issue, difficulty, or dilemma that that was solved by mechanical engineering, perhaps in conjunction with civil or electrical engineering, or IT, perhaps with the help of precision mechanics, mechanical engineering in general, or mathematics – or perhaps a current problem that ME or IT could solve.

With your topic, develop a 5-6 minute presentation about it, including methodologies and results, and your opinions and suggestions, on implications and directions of what your topic subject is about.  

Special note:

With this last task idea, you could propose an original solution within ME or IT to a problem - but you should show a methodology, with proof and a projection of results, that you believe could work.

Guidelines

As we have done before, develop a digitally-based display (Power Point, Key Note, Google Slides, or some other possible digitally-based show) with a summary that shows some background to the area or issue with any research or investigative reports about the area or issue, plus a statement on what you will focus on in your presentation. 

In addition, you will also develop an outline for your topic showing main and supporting ideas, and points of details of the topic.

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will turn in the summaries and outlines, and do the presentations, on December 17th (12/17), so you have three (3) weeks to develop these. 

During our planning and preparation time, starting from next week (12/3), I will allow you to bring in your devices (laptops and/or tablets) and work in class, with my guidance and some supporting paper material and blogposts, to develop your summaries, outlines, and spoken presentation delivery. 

Special note:
Because we will only have one week in January 2020 for a class meeting left, on January 21st (1/21), we should aim to have the presentations completed on 12/17, before our New Year's break. But we can use 1/21 as a makeup day for any final presentations that we could not get to on 12/17. 

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics, and helping you to develop them.

Image: By Kevin Jarrett - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/8295289152/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24031884