LC-1112 - Online Presentations Skills for Engineers (o), Lecture, 1.8.2023-1.9.2023

It is now time to establish your presentation topic and purpose.
Your topic should be (a) from your field of study and (b) a topic that interests and motivates you (it can also be something that you have already worked on in another context). Try to maximize the usefulness of this course by practicing a presentation that you truly care about. The final presentation will be 8-10 minutes long.

For this course, the intended audience is an educated but non-expert audience (i.e. not an engineer from your field).

Answer the following questions:

(1)  What is your presentation topic?

(2)  What background information would an educated non-expert audience need about this topic?

(3)  How could an educated non-expert audience relate to this topic?  Does your topic have a connection with the day-to-day lives of people? If not, what connection could you make to convey the relevance of your topic to this audience (i.e. why should they care?)

(4) What questions would an educated non-expert audience want you to answer about the topic? In other words, what is the purpose of your talk. What might be its main contents? What information might be "too much to handle" for this audience?