Poster project
POSTER PRESENTATION
MATLENG 201
Teaching Assistant: Lizeth Nayibe Ortiz Reyes
Presentation!
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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What is a Research Poster?
Posters are widely used in the academic community
Summarize information concisely and attractively to help publicize it and generate discussion.
The poster is usually a mixture of a brief text mixed with tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats.
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Where do I begin?
What is the most important/interesting/astounding finding from my research project?
How can I visually share my research with conference attendees? Should I use charts, graphs, photos, images?
What kind of information can I convey during my talk that will complement my poster?
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What makes a good poster?
Meet the guidelines for the specific event
Match the audience knowledge base and interests
Focus your message – what is the one thing you want people to remember?
Convey your message visually
Be clearly organized
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What makes a good poster?
Important information should be readable from about 10 feet away
Title is short and draws interest
Word count of about 300 to 800 words
Text is clear and to the point
Use of bullets, numbering, and headlines make it easy to read
Effective use of graphics, color and fonts
Consistent and clean layout
Includes acknowledgments, your name and institutional affiliation
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Poster content
Title*
Collaborators (including you) and their institutional affiliations
Abstract
Background/literature review
Research question/s*
Materials, approach, process, or methods*
Results/conclusion*
Future directions, especially if this is a work in progress
Acknowledgements*
Contact information*
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Suggested Layout Design
Textual explanations should be kept to a minimum. Don't overwhelm with information.
Decide on a small number of key points that you want your judges to take away from your presentation, and you will need to articulate those ideas clearly and concisely.
Make text readable from a distance of two meters (use 18-24 point fonts). Don't make text smaller in order to fit more onto the poster.
Use 1.5- or double-spacing to make the text easier to read.
Make your poster visually interesting.
Use color to add impact and visual appeal.
Make your main points easy to find by emphasizing them (bold, italicize, colored, or enclosed in text boxes) and setting them off with bullets or numbers.
At least 50 percent of the poster presentation should be figures (i.e., charts, graphs, and illustrations). Be creative in the graphical and pictorial representation of your research.
Try using a variety of figure types. Limit your use of tables.
Provide clear captions for all figures.
Limit poster presentations to 12 frames.
Keep wording simple and avoid heavy jargon.
Additionally, your writing on the poster board materials should not be in the same style as the writing in your research paper. Writing for poster must be concise, precise, and straightforward.
Example: Wording in a Paper: This project sought to establish the ideal specification for clinical useful wheelchair pressure mapping systems, and to use these specifications to influence the design of an innovative wheelchair pressure mapping system. Wording on a Poster: Aims of study: Define the ideal wheelchair pressure mapping system. Design a new system to meet these specifications.
In general, people expect information to flow left-to-right and top-to-bottom. Viewers are best able to absorb information from a poster with several columns that progress from left to right.
Even within these columns, however, there are certain places where viewers' eyes naturally fall first and where they expect to find information.
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Websites for guidelines
About the content and design of the poster
http://www.students.graduate.ucf.edu/Research_Forum/Poster_Guidelines/
http://www.personal.psu.edu/drs18/postershow/
https://nau.edu/undergraduate-research/poster-presentation-tips/
Poster templates
UWM template with UWM logo: http://webman.ceas.uwm.edu/poster/content/poster-submission-instructions
http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/poster/templates
Poster samples
http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/poster/samples
Poster Checklist
http://faculty.washington.edu/zander/posterChecklist.pdf
http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/poster/review
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IDEAS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION
Car bumper design
Performance
Materials - Structure
Properties
Processing
Automobile Brake Rotors
How does it work? Possible materials
Processing
Performance
Conclusion
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Automobile Body Frames
Background -> Functionality, performance
Specifications
Materials
Why that material ?
Properties
Processing
Bicycle frame
Functionality
Processing
Properties
Materials
Performance
cars, motorcycles, airplanes, iPhone, gold jewelry, whatever.