Daniel Mller, Frank Johannes

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Hauptseminar VLSI Entwurfsverfahren WS 2006/2007

• Daniel Müller, Frank Johannes
• Seminar Introduction
• October 31st, 2006

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Overview

• Motivation of the Seminar
• Work flow
• Presentation
• Preparation
• Medias
• Structure
• Slide Design
• Oral Presentation
• Evaluation
• Organization

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Motivation

• Problem
• Engineers learn to solve technical problems
• Presentation of results is not focus of
  engineering studies
• Effect
• Advertising the work and results is not done
  sufficiently
• Purpose of the seminar
• Correct and independent preparation of a
  technical topic
• Creating a presentation
• Exercising presentation techniques

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Work flow

• Selection of your topic (done by now)
• Familiarizing yourself with your topic
• Paper, References, Internet, Books ...
  (references!)
• Discussion of open questions with your advisor
• Report Written description of your topic
• approx. 2-4 pages in IEEE conference proceedings
  format
• Preparing a presentation (Powerpoint)
• Discussion of slides with your advisor
• Presenting the topic in front of an audience (25
  min)
• Afterwards Answer questions and discussion on
  the topic
• Attendance and participation in the discussion of
  other topics
• Attendance is required for all presentations
• Participation in the discussions is evaluated

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Preparing a presentation

• Creating the slides
• Structuring the slides
• Designing figures and tables
• Discussion of slides with the advisor
• Preparing the oral presentation
• Keeping the time limit (25 min)
• Transitions between sections
• Training the oral presentation
• In front of friends, parents, mirror
• In front of the advisor
• In the seminar room
• Arriving on time
• Changing laptop, testing slides
• Setting up the projector
• Loading the presentation, title page

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Medias

• Board, Flip-Chart
• Slowly deriving equations
• Permanent visible
• Must be structured and readable
• Slides, Overhead projector
• Can be reused
• Markers can be used for additional notes
• Computer, Powerpoint presentations
• Easy reuse and changes
• Use of multimedia
• No excessive animations
• Projector required

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Structuring the slides for a scientific
presentation

• Title page (1 slide)
• Overview (1 slide)
• Problem formulation, application area, Motivation
  (1-2 slides)
• Introduction, State-of-the-art (5 slides)
• 50 of presentation
• Own work and contributions (5 slides) (Not in
  seminar)
• Results (1-2 slides)
• Future work (1 slide) (not in seminar)
• Conclusions (1 slide)

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Slide design

• Use meaningful and fitting slide titles
• Place name of authors and speaker on title page
  (seminar also advisor)
• Use slide numbers for easier reference of slides
  during the discussion
• Explain used abbreviations
• Use headwords, not complete sentences on slides
• Use figures and animations for illustrations
• Meaningful and consequent use of colors
• Highlight important statements
• Do not place too much information on a single
  slide
• Use large fonts and strong contrasts for
  readability
• Plan 1-3 min time per slide

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Presentation

• Overview
• Duration 25 min
• Language
• German presentation / German slides
• English presentation / English slides
• German presentation / English slides (!)

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Presentation

• DOs
• Good motivation of the topic
• Clear structure of the presentation
• Emphasize important statements during the
  presentation
• Make transitions clear between different sections
• Talk to the audience
• Use pointers to guide the audience through your
  slides
• Speak calm and slowly
• DON'Ts
• Present unimportant details
• Reading or memorizing the complete presentation
• Assume too much prior knowledge from the audience
  about your topic

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Evaluation of the seminar

• Evaluation based on
• Oral Presentation
• form presentation style, time limit
• contents correct, complete, comprehensible
• Slides
• form design
• contents correct, complete, comprehensible
• Written Report
• Independent work and participation
• when working on presentation and deliverable
• during the discussion rounds in the seminar
• "Copy und Paste-reports or presentations will
  be graded with 5.0
• Complete reference on used sources required.