Final Presentations

MAE154 Final

Oral Presentations logistics

    • 8 minutes timed followed by 7 minutes Q&A.

    • Not all team member are required to present, but all should be available for Q&A.

  • Email the instructor a pdf of your slides, your movies, and report by Friday 3/22 at 10am

    • Bring 4 copies of slides and report. One for each judge and one for the instructor.

    • You can use money from your team $100 to print and bind report.

  • A random number generator will determine the order of presentation.

  • Pizza will be served after the presentations and while we are waiting for the judge's decisions.

Judges for Fall 2019

Before the Presentation

  • Complete the Final Peer review by midnight Thursday of Final week.

After the Presentation

  • Each student who made purchases needs to complete the Personal Reimbursement Form, and attach their receipts to this form. The whole team should paper clip all of the team's forms together and write on the front the total spent by the team. These should be handed to the TA on the day of the final.

Presentation Content

It is up to each team on how to best use their 8 minutes to making a compelling argument to support their product.

    1. Need being addressed

    2. General Description of Solution

      1. Use annotated figures (preferably CAD) followed by demo or video

      2. Value Proposition

    3. Market Research

      1. Comparison to existing products

      2. Customer discovery

      • Indicate type of feedback, e.g. in person, vs phone, vs internet survey

      • Number of people from whom feedback was received

      • Summarize results of feedback

      1. Estimated market size in terms of number of units that could be sold.

      2. Possibility of Intellectual Property protection or other competitive advantage.

  1. Hardware Prototype

    • Use a demonstration to convince the audience that your idea will actually work.

    • Should we do a Live Demonstration or a Video of Demonstration? Do both! The video will be done under optimal conditions and will function even if there is a hardware glitch, but their is no substitute for a live demonstration to convienve an audience.

    • But our product isn't finished yet, what should we do?

      • Do a video showing how your product final would work if all the technology was completed - clearly indicate what aspects of this video are fabricated.

      • Identify a key technology area and do a proof-of-concept demonstration. Highlight all the hard work you have done' don't be too humble here.

  2. Business Model Canvas

    1. Describe Customer Segments, Value Proposition, and Revenue Stream.

    2. A Business Model Canvas should be included in the backup slides

    3. See reading and examples

  1. Cost Estimates

      1. Estimates of manufacturing costs per unit once item is mass produced, and recommended retail cost.

      2. No need to estimate company startup costs or break-even analysis. Instead just list items that will be needed to start company. The dollar estimates can be done at a later date if the project is continued.

    1. Project Plan

      1. High risk marketing issues, and how these issues will be addressed.

      2. High risk technical issues, and how these issues will be addressed.

      3. Layout schedule for the next 6 months of the project

        1. Indicate if there is a desire to continue the project in a capstone class such as MAE156B

        2. Estimate expenses of producing a fully functioning prototype.

        3. List milestones to be reached.

    2. Team attributes

    • Continuation plans: indicate if team is interested in being considered for the $1000 award and who would continue with the project.

    • Recruitment plans: indicate if you plan to add members to the team.

    • Summarize team strengthens.

Report Content

    • The report covers the same material as the oral presentation but in more depth.

    • The report should be readable as a stand-alone document, so material from the presentation needs to be incorporated into it.

    • Design and market research details should be included to support oral presentation.

    • Length of report should be 8-12 pages.

NCIIA MAE154 Awards

Venturewell, ( Previously the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance) have generously provided funds that will be awarded to three MAE154 teams. Details of the awards are as follows:

    • $1000 will be awarded to each winning team. These funds are to be used for continuation of the project in areas such as prototype development, patent protection, and marketing. Reimbursement for expenses will be administered through the Moxie Center

    • Judging will be done by a panel of leaders in the area of product design and entrepreneurship. Judges will make their awards without instructor input.

    • Student grades in MAE154 will not be affected by who wins the awards, and indeed the grading for the final will be completed before the awards are made public to the class and instructor.

    • Students can continue the project outside of any course, or possibly as part of a capstone design course such as MAE156B.

      • Students will need permission of the course instructor if they wish to continue the project within a course.

      • MAE156B and some other courses have a $500 shop fee, which would come out of the $1000 award.

    • The student team can recruit additional members to continue the project with, and some team members may wish to drop out. Distribution of ownership of any patents rights and eventual revenue will be decided upon by the students. The Moxie Center can provide example ownership agreements, which the students may select to implement.

    • If a team does not win, they can still continue with their project, but will be responsible to find funding for their project.

    • There will be larger product design and entrepreneurship awards later in the academic year and all teams may wish to enter contests for these awards.

Judging Criteria

The awards are to be given to the teams judged to have the highest likelihood of bringing a product to market or licensing the technology. The total Return On Investment is not a criterion for giving the award, but clearly if the net income is not sufficient, the product will never succeed. For example a concept that has a 50% of coming to market and making $500,000 will win over a product that has a 10% on coming to market but could make $100,000,000.

Judges will evaluate the student presentations and reports in the categories of: Product Need, Design Solution, Market Research, Project Plan, and the Student Team. However, it will be the judges overall assessment of “likelihood of success” that is the determining factor for giving the awards.


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Judging Form

The objective of the MAE154 course is to educate engineering students in the areas of product design and entrepreneurship. We believe that the best way to teach these topics is for students to engage in a project where they attempt to bring a new product to market. The more engaged students are in all aspects of bringing a product to market, the more they will learn. Accordingly, to maximize the educational value of the course we wish to provide additional support for projects that have the highest likelihood of bringing a product to market or licensing the technology. Thus, the total Return On Investment is not a criterion for giving the award, but clearly if the net income is not sufficient, the product will never succeed.


A list of criteria are listed below as a judging aid, but it is the final “likelihood of success” that is the determining factor for giving the awards. During the presentation each category should be rated out of 100. After the presentations the judges will confer and select 3 teams to receive $1000 each for continuation of the project.