how to make a memorable presentation
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Design DeliveryPlanning
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Planning1
Presentations are about telling a story
Not all audience is equal
This is not the best way to plan a presentation
We don’t know where we get our ideas from. We do know we don’t get them from our laptops.
- John Cleese
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Disconnect
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Narrow
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Structuring your story
Attention
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The 10-minute rule
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Structuring your story
Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge
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Question Question Question Question
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Steve Jobs’s iPhone introduction presentation
MLK’s “I have a dream” speech
General
Deep
Structuring your story
Plan to have a “home slide”
The redox tower
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All voltages vs. SHE
Acetate
Anode potential
Increasing respiration rate
The anaerobic food web
Go “analog”
Design2
This is what we think of as “design”
… or this
Water
• Providing access to clean water is one of the grand challenges for engineering, as outlined by NAE in 2008
• 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water; that’s 1/6th of the total population
• Water is not evenly distributed; some areas have more freshwater, while some have water scarcity
• For e.g. Canada has more than it needs, while middle east has severe shortage
• Water challenges are also tied together with energy challenges, and so it’s important to maintain a sustainable water-energy nexus
Death by bullet points
• Follow this sign to go to Phoenix on I-10
• You will also find a connection to Wickenburg at AZ-60
• This route takes you to the Sky Harbor airport on 143N
• Make sure you are not on this lane if you don’t need to go to the airport
• This exit takes you to Broadway Rd
• But you will also be able to go to 52nd St if you need
Imagine how many accidents we would have if…
That’s why road signs do not have bullet points
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- Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
1.1 billion people lack access to clean water
1point per slide
slides are
Freshwater is not evenly distributed
Start with a blank slide
Outline of today’s talk
• Introduction • Literature Review • Materials and Methods
- Method 1 - Method 2 - Method 3
• Results and Discussion - Topic 1 - Topic 2 - Topic 3
• Conclusions • Acknowledgments
Outline of today’s talk
• Introduction • Literature Review • Materials and Methods
- Method 1 - Method 2 - Method 3
• Results and Discussion - Topic 1 - Topic 2 - Topic 3
• Conclusions • Acknowledgments
Microbial fuel cells for wastewater
treatment
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Topics to be covered today...
Microbial fuel cells for wastewater
treatment
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Electrochemical analyses of
anode-respiring bacteria
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Topics to be covered today...
Microbial fuel cells for wastewater
treatment
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Electrochemical analyses of
anode-respiring bacteria
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OH- transport limitations in
Pt/C cathodes
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Topics to be covered today...
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1. Energy 2. Water 3. Food 4. Environment 5. Poverty 6. Terrorism & war 7. Disease 8. Education 9. Democracy 10.Population
Richard Smalley
50% of total energy use in WW treatment goes in activated sludge
Wastewater treatment is energy intensive
Wastewater treatment is energy intensive
Activated SludgeDigester Heating/MixingInfluent PumpingDisinfectionSludge HandlingOther
0.6 kWh/m3 of WW
McCarty et al., ES&T, 2011
Global phosphorus reserves expected to be depleted in
50-100 years
One day of breathing in Mumbai = One cigarette pack
Biosolids for land application
Wired microbial metabolism
Takes lots of photos in the lab
New revelations on respiratory behavior of Geobacter sulfurreducens grown on electrodes
Sudeep C. Popat | Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology | [email protected]
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
For j = 10 A/m2, Δ∆C = 0.1 M
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
For j = 10 A/m2, Δ∆C = 0.1 M
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
1.23 V
0.39 V0 14pH
60 mV per pH unit
Nernst Equation
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
For j = 10 A/m2, Δ∆C = 0.1 M
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
Case 1: Liquid pH 7 10-7 M
0.1 M
1.23 V
0.39 V0 14pH
60 mV per pH unit
Nernst Equation
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
For j = 10 A/m2, Δ∆C = 0.1 M
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
Case 1: Liquid pH 7 10-7 M
0.1 M
pH 13
1.23 V
0.39 V0 14pH
60 mV per pH unit
Nernst Equation
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
For j = 10 A/m2, Δ∆C = 0.1 M
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
Case 1: Liquid pH 7 10-7 M
0.1 M
pH 13
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
Case 2: Liquid pH 13
0.1 M0.2 M
1.23 V
0.39 V0 14pH
60 mV per pH unit
Nernst Equation
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
For j = 10 A/m2, Δ∆C = 0.1 M
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
O2
e-
OH- j = nF(D/L)(Δ∆C)
CL
CS
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
Case 1: Liquid pH 7 10-7 M
0.1 M
pH 13
Liquid
Diffusion Layer
Cathode
Case 2: Liquid pH 13
0.1 M0.2 M
pH 13.1
1.23 V
0.39 V0 14pH
60 mV per pH unit
Nernst Equation
Use schematics and animations... but wisely!
The best design gets out of the way of between the viewer’s brain and the content.
- Edward Tufte
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Do not use templates that waste a lot of space
Do not use templates that waste a lot of space
Even your institution’s template is not needed for every slide
A blank slide is the best
Which Fonts Should You Use?
This is a Serif font
This is a Sans Serif font
This is a Serif font
This is a Sans Serif font
This is a Serif font
This is a Sans Serif font
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Arial Calibri
Gill Sans Lucida Grande
Open Sans Tahoma Verdana
Comic Sans?
Comic Sans?
Helvetica
Which Colors Should You Use?
Contrast Contrast
Black on White
Yellow on White
White on Black
Navy Blue on Black
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- Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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- Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
”“
- Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
http://commguide.asu.edu
How to Show Graphs and Data?
Take this example...
More solvent = more lipids
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5x 10x 70x
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otal
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Solvent : Biomass
FP improves lipid recovery for low solvent use...
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Control 17.6 23.3 29.2 35.8 71.7
% F
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FP Treatment (kWh m-3)
Solvent : Biomass = 5x
...but not for large solvent use
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Control 17.6 23.3 29.2 35.8 71.7
% F
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FP Treatment (kWh m-3)
Solvent : Biomass = 70x
Different lipid fractions don’t change with FP
Control 17.6 kWh m-3
C16:0 C16:0C16:1 C16:1
C18:1C18:1C18:2
C18:3 C18:3C18:2
Look at the world around you...
Delivery3
Practice, practice… and the practice some more!
Video tape yourself
Always look at the audience
Use “Presenter View”
Use “Presenter View”
Use “Presenter View”
Richard Feynman
Sir Ken Robinson
Remember… it’s about telling your story
Resources
http://commguide.asu.edu
Todd Reubold slideshare/treubold
Garr Reynolds presentationzen.com
Nancy Duarte duarte.com “slide:ology” “Resonate”
Susan McConnell youtube/ibioseminars
Jay H. Lehr “Let There Be Stoning!”
Michael Alley “The Craft of Scientific Presentations”
Simplify
”“- Jony Ive
Simplicity is about bringing order to complexity.
Sudeep C. Popat Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
Al Gore presenting photo - Paramount Classics Steve Jobs presenting photo - Apple, Inc.
Planning photo - St. Lucie County, FL Steve Jobs iPhone photo - Apple, Inc.
Anaerobic food web schematic - Angenent et al., Trends Biotechnol., 2004 Designer photo - Globe University
Walt Disney photo - The Walt Disney Company Africa water pollution photo - E Staub/CDC
Richard Smalley photo - redOrbit Phosphorus mining photo - Alexandra Pugachevsky
Mumbai air pollution photo - Romana Chapman/Indian Insights Biosolids photo - Mid West Biosystems
Choose Vegetarianism billboard - Mercy for Animals Method products photo - Method Products, pbc
Don’t Panic graphic - Buena Vista Pictures Dance rehearsal photo - Noord Nederlandse
Al Gore photo - Paramount Classics Richard Feynman photo - American Institute of Physics
Sir Ken Robinson photo - Ryan Lash/TED Lots of books photo - Jess Mountifield
Todd Reubold photo - University of Minnesota Nancy Duarte photo - Poptech
Jay Lehr photo - US Soy Bean Export Council Michael Alley photo - Penn State
Susan McConnell photo - Stanford University Jony Ive photo - Apple, Inc.
Several other images - Stock photos
Photo credits