英語表現演習4 (金): Fall semester final presentation assignment・期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you the final assignment for this term - a presentation with an outline and a written summary (要約) about a product, component, or piece of equipment.

Topic & task

Prepare a short presentation about any product, component, or piece of equipment used in, or is from, not only mechanical engineering but any field of technology. This could even include IT-related digital applications or components as well. 
 


Along with this presentation, you will also write a short separate summary showing what you will present about. 

Guidelines

You have a choice of making an A3-sized poster or short Power Point display. 

In your presentation about your product, component, or equipment, you should show:

• A short background about it (where it comes from and when it was first made)
• What it is made of
• What the key components are - with measurements (if many, show only the most important components)
• Some drawing or other schema of it (any kind of engineering drawing – or if IT-related, an algorithm and/or program that is the basis of it)  
• A short explanation of how it works
• Its use, popularity, and/or application (使用) – workplaces, schools, universities, research institutes, and so forth

Special notes:
In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, especially from the units on components and assemblies and engineering design - though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units. 

The summary you will write is not to be used as notes, however. It is a written preview of the presentation topic and what the contents of it are - it is not the presentation itself! You will only use the outline to speak from.

NEW - Some starting resources
Here are two (2) links to TED Talks relating to engineering that could help you on topic ideas. Watch these for ideas.

David Lang - My underwater robot (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk.

Keller Rinaud – A mini robot – powered by your phone (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk. 

Both of these talks have Japanese subtitles (字幕), plus transcripts in English or Japanese that you can download.

Now here are two (2) videos on presentation tips and hints, with one about engineering presentation. You can also get Japanese subtitles with these:

 

Deadlines (締め切り) 

We will do the presentations on January 18th, 2019 (1/18/2019), so you have over one (1) month to prepare these. 

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics! 

Image: By Thomas Bresson - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17553420