Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Punjab Engineering College
(Deemed to be University)
Subject: Technical Communication (MEN 205) Instructor: Dr. Mahesh Kumar Yadav
Assignment #03: Power Point Presentations Due date: March 24, 2022 (Thursday)
Note: Submit your assignments as a single ZIP file. Include all the power point presentations
in the ZIP file in .ppt format. Write your name and roll number on the first page of the file.
Name your ZIP file as <Roll Number>_Assign<Assignment Number>
without any excuse. For example, if your roll number is 202021 and assignment
number is 1, then name your file as 202021_Assign01.
25% marks penalty per week will be levied on late submission. This will be strictly
followed even if you submit the assignment just after the due date.
1. Suppose you a chief officer in an ongoing government project. Assume that you have
come-up with a very-novel idea or scheme/ developed an interesting product or
achieved a great feet like Mangalyaan during the course of the project. Now, your task,
as a chief officer, is to present your work through power point presentation to the
followings:
I. Government personals including ministers and bureaucrats.
II. Media persons and general public.
III. In a technical or research organization.
Make three separate power point presentations for each of the above, and prepare a
1-2 pages report highlighting the difference among the presentations.
After the presentation, the government officials have asked for the presentation file to
share it with other department. What changes you will make in the presentation? Prepare a
separate presentation file and highlight all the changes with the same font colours.
2. Consider that you have achieved a significant feat as a research project head in a
company, say automobile or a mobile company (you are free to assume any company of
your liking). You are tasked to present your work in front of your bosses to implement
part of your work in the upcoming product and demands additional fund to continue
the project. Make a brief report and power point presentation for the same.
After a few days, your bosses have agreed to integrate your work in the upcoming
product. You are asked to make a presentation to the sales and marketing team for this
integration. Modify the earlier presentation (in a separate file) and highlight all the
changes in the new power point presentation file with the same font colours.
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Include some (more than 50% at-least) or all of the following in your
presentation:
i. Slides: Show that you can use different types of slides including title slide, bulleted
list, 2 column text, table, text and chart, clip art and text, text & image, a collage of
pictures on one slide.
ii. Use different types of format than by default available in the power point (slide
design, layout, color scheme, background)
iii. Make master slide(s) and include some information as headers and footers.
iv. Text formatted in a variety of ways: Different sizes, style of font, color, bold, italics,
underlined; also insert text boxes formatted in different ways.
v. Formatting of paragraphs: Use numbered and bulleted lists, and have a series of
sublevels under the bullet and numbered lists; show different ways of formatting
numbers and bullets, and animate these so they appear separately.
vi. Use of drawing tools to create your own graphics (experiment with different types of
boxes, circles, lines, call outs, color, etc.).
vii. Photos and clip art that you have formatted in a variety of ways (e.g. resize, rotate,
use different effects, giving shadow, adjusting variations, creating border, etc.
viii. Use custom animation effects for animating text and pictures on slides. Experiment
with having different parts of graphics appear one at a time so as to build viewer
understanding of a sequence of steps.
ix. Sound: Insert sound file/video clips/recorded narration, if required.
x. Interactive slides: Use hyperlinks to the Internet, to other slides within your
presentation, and to other computer files.
xi. Save your presentation in different formats: standard, as a pdf, as a web page, as a
movie, and as a package which runs automatically upon being opened.
Few things to keep in mind during power point presentation:
˗ Talk to the audience, don't read. You may use notes when you make your
presentation, but you should not read from a fully written out text.
˗ Do plenty of reading and research. Explore the topic as fully as possible.
˗ Read over your notes, and think over the results of your reading.
˗ Discuss your results with your colleagues/friends. Tentatively plan the presentation
in its general outlines.
˗ Brainstorm and write down all the interesting ideas that you have come up with.
˗ Organize these ideas into a coherent sequence. Return to your notes and add any
information relevant to your major ideas which will illustrate or explain them.
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˗ Add an introduction, which tells what you will talk about, and a conclusion which
sums up what you have discussed and learned. Cut out any irrelevant or
uninteresting material, which is not a natural fit in your story.
˗ Organize and streamline the presentation.
˗ Visualize yourself giving a talk to the class, going through all these ideas, in a
comfortable and relaxed fashion. If you wish, practice talking about your subject to
a mirror.
˗ Using only brief notes, if needed, to give your presentation and have fun!
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