東京理科大学 技術英語: 12/10 board notes・12月10日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 12/10. 

Once again - if you would like to review the final presentation project, click on this link. 

See you next week with your great presentations!

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東京理科大学 技術英語: 11/26 & 12/3 board notes・11月26日と12月3日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 12/3. Above are the main board notes. 

As a reminder - if you would like to review the final presentation project, click on this link. 

Now one more thing - I'm very sorry about this! I overlooked uploading last week's (11/26) board notes. Before doing so, here are the other board notes for our class on 12/3:

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/26: 

My apologies for this!

So see you next week!

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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.

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東京理科大学 技術英語: About hacking・ハッキングについて

Hello!

How are you? Good job and a big otsukaresamadeshita on the presentations last week! 

For the IT students of the class, here is a short video for you about hacking to go with your reading about catching hackers.   

I hope this can help you with your understanding about the reading. 

Now here are the board notes for our class from 11/12:

See you next week!

Image: By Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53153294

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東京理科大学 技術英語: About the Sagrada Familia・サグラダ・ファミリアについて

Hello!

How are you? Good job and a big otsukaresamadeshita on the presentations last week! 

For the mechanical engineering students of our class, here is a short video to go with your reading about the famous Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain - the lifetime achievement of the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. It remained unfinished in his own lifetime, and under construction for decades after. 

The picture above is a model of the full structure, with the parts already completed in brown. 

In 2026, however, it is scheduled to finally be completed. This video shows some facts and interesting details about the Sagrada Família, and the architecture and engineering involved with it. 

I hope this can help with your understanding about the reading. 

Now here are the board notes for our class from 11/12:

See you next week! 

Images: Top -by Balou46, Io_Herodotus - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7050531/Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved.
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東京理科大学 技術英語: 10/29 board notes・10月29日のボードノート

Hello!

How are you? My apologies to all of you - but I fell behind on my board note posting. So here are the board notes for our last two classes on 10/22 and 10/29. 

Above are the main board notes for our class on 10/29. Now here are the other board notes for the 10/29 class - a few examples of some signal words you can use for moving from one point to another within your speaking:

Now here are the board notes for our class on 10/22: 

Good luck with your preparation, and see you next week with your great presentations!

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東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1b・技術英語: Supporting post for short presentations・発表のサポート

Hello!

How are you? Here is a supporting post of presentation tips, links, and hints, with a models of presentations, for all of your short presentation projects for both the Listening & Speaking and 技術英語 classes. 

Listening & Speaking 1b (神楽坂ヤンパス) 10/21 & 10/14:

Here are the board notes for our classes on 10/21 & 10/14. If you would like a review of the short presentation project, go to this link. 

技術英語 (葛飾キャンパス) 10/15:

Here are the board notes from our class on 10/15. If you would like a review of the short presentation project, go to this link. 

Useful links for Listening & Speaking and 技術英語 classes
Space and time do not let me go into a full post on the topics. So I have created blogpost pages on Power Point tips and hints, and on outlining for presentations, for all of you if you need them. 

So go to this link for tips and hints on Power Point presentation design.

While making an outline (あらすじ) is optional and you do not have to make one, it might help you organize your speaking better. If you want to make an outline, go to this link about outlining for scientific and technical presentation topics. 

Presentation tips and examples
Here are three (3) videos for you on presentation that may help you. Rather than making a separate post, I have decided to include them here. 

The first one is a funny, but important one on good and bad presentation habits: 



The second one is on the ideal structure for an engineering presentation. While this is aimed more towards the mechanical engineering students, it should be useful as well for the IT students in our class:

The third one is a TED Talk from a 12-year-old app developer. It's a great real-life model for a confident, informative, and interesting presentation. While it is oriented around IT, it also is a good model for our engineering majors as well:



I hope these links and videos will be interesting and informative for you. 

Take care!

Images: Top - "Presentation word" (courtesy of Stuart Miles)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Board notes - personal photographs. All rights reserved. 

東京理科大学 技術英語: Short presentations・発表

Hello!

How are you? Today, here is our short presentation assignment. 

First, here are the board notes for our class on 10/1 (my apologies for the shot being a little out of focus!): 

Now let's look at the short presentation task!

Theme & task

Depending on your major, select a technical aspect to present about based on either of the following themes (choose one):

Mechanical technicalities of a piece of equipment, a vehicle, or an aircraft – in this theme, any piece of equipment relevant to tasks, problems, issues, or situations that mechanical engineers have to deal with is good.

Showing how something works mechanically is especially encouraged – for example, in the case of vehicles, how a combustion engine (or battery power) for an automobile operates, or for aircraft, how a jet engine works. This should also include some background to the development of the equipment, vehicle, or aircraft (with some research of your own such as (a) reading(s) from the web, and/or from the readings in class on the timeline of the automobile, or about BEVs). 

Technicalities of hardware, operating system, or software development key to the evolution of the internet or creation of the World Wide Web – in this theme, any technicalities that systems engineers or software developers have to deal with is good.

Showing how something works that was (or is) crucial systematically is especially encouraged – for example, in the case of the development of the internet, a technical issue about network connection in the early history of development, or how Tim Berners-Lee developed the technical connectivity to realize the World Wide Web (with some research of your own such as (a) reading(s) from the web, and/or from the readings in class of the early history, and further development, of the internet and WWW).  

Guidelines

Develop a short, 3-4 minute presentation about your topic – not a reading in front of others of a script, but a developed spoken presentation of your topic with Power Point or Keynote.

You will also write, and hand in, an original summary (要約) in your own words of your presentation topic. 

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do the presentations on November 5th (11/5), so you have almost one (1) month to research, develop summaries, practice presenting, and finally presenting your topics based on the theme of your choice. 

NEW - now here are the board notes for our class on 10/8:

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics as well as your presentations. 

See you next time!

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