“The Beginner’s Guide to Bad Engineering Presentations” by Mark L. Chang is available in pdf and ppt formats.
Book Description
This was created as a response to seeing some common things that we didn’t like in lots of engineering presentations. By no means is this a complete guide, nor are our opinions really anything but our own opinions. Take it mostly as “things that our advisor said to not do”.
Table of Contents
- Outline
- Bad Presentations
- Good Presentations
- Know Your Topic
- Know Your Audience
- Know Your Location
- Attitude
- Dead Man Talking
- Speed Kills
- Amplification
- Where are your hands?
- Common Laser Pointer Moves
- Time Check
- Font Size, Slide Numbers
- Know Slide Boundaries
- Spell Check
- The Art of Suspense
- Anticipatory Lecturing
- You are not Pixar Studios
- Interstitial Slides
- Use Simple Examples
- Results
- Highlights
- Information Overload