Practice effective communication skills through the preparation of a project proposal, engineering reports and oral project presentations.

This course discusses ways how to present the capstone project proposal effectively. These include preparing the project proposals, submitting engineering reports and presenting them orally during title defense.

effective communication: its importance in capstone presentation

Practicing effective communication skills greatly help the engineering students in creating a portfolio of work which reflects the mastery of preparing and presenting a project proposal. It is necessary for us, engineering students to exhibit communication skills because societal problems that our project will be solving will not be addressed if we don't communicate with stakeholders and experts in the field.
Also, possessing communication skills serves as an opportunity and advantage for us to demonstrate our knowledge and expertise on the design concepts and engineering tools that we will be using in our project proposal.

When presenting a project proposal, it is necessary to communicate effectively with the guidance advisory committee. For example, during our title defense, we have to demonstrate our ability to synthesize and apply the knowledge we've attained from previous subject courses to real world problems. In order to do so, we have to practice and improve public speaking skills. We made it possible by preparing our project proposal and practicing the presentation to make sure that we are confident enough to present it. Conducting rehearsals is a must for us to be fully prepared, and to avoid further complications and
Using notecards guided me through the presentation by noting some quotes and design concepts that I need to mention. We also set a time limit to ensure that we will be able to finish presenting in a given time allotment.

Classwork Assignment #6_(Special Group) (1).pdf

Using visual aids such as slides, and handouts may help the panelists easily understand what our project is all about. A well-designed Power Presentation is useful because it grabs the panel's interest and may reflect our presentation skills as well.
During our presentation, we only presented Gantt chart, methodological workflow and matrix, summarized the data, and highlighted only the important points in the project.
Since the presentation is also based on a research paper, we made sure that the manuscript was already revised and polished before we gave copies to the GAC.

TITLE DEFENSE!!!

Last November 12, 2022, our group presented the capstone project proposal entitled "Site-Specific Wind Risk Mapping using Deep Learning Methods in Extracting Building Characteristics in Legazpi City, Albay. Our group was composed of (1) Civil Engineering Student, and (3) from Electronics Engineering Department. The Guidance Advisory Committee consisted a total of (6) panelists, with one coming from External Committee. This was the first collaborative capstone project wherein two programs agreed to conduct a multidisciplinary type of scientific research. Shown on the right are documented photos taken during the title defense and below is the PowerPoint presentation and research manuscript (Chapters I-III) that was submitted before the targeted date of defense.

There was an exchange of ideas and suggestions from the Guidance Advisory committee from both the Electronics Engineering and Civil Engineering department. I was too intimidated and nervous at first since we will be defending our proposal to 6 members of GAC. But as we present the proposal, I feel at ease since the panelists were too relaxed and attentive during the Q&A portion and followed up with questions and suggestions that are very substantial to our proposed capstone project.
Attached on the right is the recorded video of our title defense

Q&A.mkv

Title Defense Presentation.mp4

reflection

The last CLO tackled on how to prepare oneself in presenting project proposal in the most effective manner. Different evaluation forms were also uploaded, and guidelines were discussed prior to the title defense. I have learned that the presentation should not be lengthy and must be prepared up to a maximum of 9 slides. Since this was the first collaborative capstone project wherein two programs agreed to conduct a multidisciplinary type of scientific research, this was a new experience for me, to collaborate with student researchers from other fields of engineering. Aside from attaining good interpersonal skills, we are constantly communicating with our advisers, instructors and experts in both machine learning and wind engineering field. This made me realize that delivering the presentation well helped us to make the presentation be more engaging and enthusiastic to the panelists. Also, sticking to few key points and having a clear and precise structure of our presentation helped the panel to deeply understand the capstone project, especially its objectives so that they won't get lost during the presentation. We succesfully defended our thesis proposal, and it was fun and engaging for me. With that, I am hoping that everything in our capstone project runs smoothly by the next semester by using the knowledge and skills that I have harvested and gained in this course subject.

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