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

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 情報工学科技術英語: Final presentations・期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Here is our final presentation assignment. 

Once again, I am very sorry to post this later than what I had planned! While we still have a lot of time left in our course this semester, I had intended to post this on the day of the class this week. Please accept my apologies once again on posting this late!

Topic & task

Select an area or issue of AI (artificial intelligence), IT, the internet or the World Wide Web – for example: 

• a technical area of AI or IT – for example, how AI or IT can play a role in different areas of society and culture, such as medical care, or education, or even the arts – or –

• a general issue about the pros and cons of regulating the internet by governments or public or private organizations – or –

• a specific issue on the internet/WWW – for example, how to regulate fake news and spread of misinformation, or whether or not governments should intervene wherever there is any publicly harmful content on the internet

Along with this, develop a short, 5-6 minute presentation about your topic, including methodologies and results, and also your opinions and suggestions, on implications and directions of what your topic subject is about.  

As one example – on the issue of regulation of the internet: If you believe that the internet does not need to be regulated by local or national governments, state your opinion about it – but do not stop there. Exactly why, in your view, does it not need to be regulated? What research and studies, or journalistic investigations, can you find about the dangers of outside organizations regulating the internet?

Or by contrast – is regulation by bodies such as government organizations, or even through governmental law-making itself, necessary to keep the internet and WWW a safe area? What actions of internet regulation on such public levels have been taken in some countries?




Guidelines

You have a choice of making a Power Point or other digital display, as we have done before, 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 January 22nd (1/22), so you have more than one month to do these. 

During our planning and preparation time, 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. 

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