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Held at the end of Fall and Winter semesters.

Each semester of Capstone normally concludes with a formal presentation to the university community and project sponsors. Presentations are designed to develop your communication skills and provide your sponsor and others with important information regarding your project.

Check the schedule on Learning Suite for the Presentation day and time.

Presenting your work to others is an essential part of being a good engineer. These presentations will give you practice in preparing and presenting your Capstone work to others in a public setting.

• Introduce your design opportunity and show why it is a worthwhile challenge
• Clearly show your market requirements
• Present the selected concept and architecture
• Present the key success measures and how they relate to the market requirements
• Demonstrate that your selected concept and architecture will lead to a design that meets the project key success measures
• Show off your prototypes that demonstrate how well your concept works

After viewing your presentation, the audience should be impressed with your work and believe that your selected concept is excellent.

• Convince the audience that your development opportunity is meaningful and challenging
• Clearly present the key success measures and other development goals
• Clearly present the final design
• Demonstrate that your final design meets the key success measures and other development goals
• Show how well the market likes the design, as indicated by validation testing results

• For public presentations, the presentation should last about 12 minutes. You should allow 5 minutes for questions at the end of the presentation for a total time of 17 minutes. For online presentations, we expect your sponsor may wish to have a more detailed, more technical presentation. Please coordinate details with your sponsor.

• You should practice your presentation enough that you can be smooth and polished. Do not read your presentation from note cards or other aids. TED talks are examples of good presentation skills you should use.

• It is best to have only one or two team members make the presentation, although all team members should provide supporting material and be available to answer questions.

• Your entire team should wear your team shirts and appropriate business-casual pants or skirts.

• Your entire team is expected to attend the entire session in which they are presenting.

Presenting to your sponsor. This additional may take place at your sponsor's location (if they are local) or via Zoom or other teleconference options (if they are not local). You will want to schedule enough time for a full design review – generally at least 60 minutes.

\item Your sponsor may wish to have multiple people from the company attend the presentation. follow the sponsor's lead and your coach's advice about scheduling, preparing for, and giving a special sponsor presentation at the end of each semester.