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Hall of Fame
We don't always provide samples for every assignment, and assignments may change slightly from semester to semester, but
it's often useful and inspirational to see what others have done so we've collected some positive examples here for you.
In each case, some aspect of the student's performance was nicely done, and we've listed what these aspects are for many of them.
Each student has consented to the use of their video for 6.UAT pedagogy only. By accessing these
videos, you agree to respect their privacy and not to copy nor distribute these videos (e.g. do not
download nor post on youtube).
Note: the videos were not originally intended for this purpose and may not be the greatest quality in some cases.
Sample Self-Introduction Videos
Many of these are pretty creative!
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Sample Intuition Talks
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- Mariko Medlock: Mappings
clear explanation, use of illustrative gestures, signposting
- Dave Fernholz: Hard Drives
gave good feel for 1 trillion (listen for audience), great example of recovery: handling of diagrams that displayed incorrectly, and recapping when people came in late
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Sample Chalk Talks
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Sample Persuasive Pitches
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Sample Proposal Talks
Pay particular attention to the content (e.g. problem description, previous work, issues, risks, timetable, etc).
Spring 2018
- Daniel Sheen and Luke Luneau: The Mesh Radar Project
good job thinking through issues, fielding questions, advancing slides and handing off between speakers
Fall 2013
- Benoit Landry: Competition (Palantir) - Archetype (slides)
nice slides, good job answering questions, good use of video with live voieover
Spring 2013
- Casey O'Brien: SuperUROP - Java Tutor (slides)
talk contains all the basic content that we're looking for
- Jordan Goldstein: Representative Project - Design of a Rapid Beverage Chiller (slides)
good job thinking through various aspects of the project beforehand
Fall 2012
- Drew Dennison: Representative Project - Creating Simmons (slides)
good recovery (when power goes out), very simple (mostly pictorial) slides
Spring 2012
- Zachary Hynes: Representative Project - CoffeehouseOnline environments for civic discourse (slides)
nice start (without slides), good recovery, comfortable/confident, good gesturing
Fall 2011
- Andrew Goessling: MEng Project - Shared Inductor Power converters (slides)
good pacing and clear explanation (there were no audience questions, but you should expect to be interrupted during your talk!)
Spring 2010
- John Dong: Representative Project - UltraFetch: File Placement Optimizer
good in-depth knowledge and answering of questions
- Ben Bloomberg: Representative Project - Surround Sound
good context overview
Fall 2009
- Frank Yaul: Faculty Thesis Project - large area pressure sensors
good summary at start, good interaction with slides
Spring 2009
- Yufei Zhao: FacultyThesis Project - algorithms regarding overlapping regions
good example of making a theoretical problem more tractable by applying constraints and showing how to solve each intermediate version
Fall 2008
- Jordan Sorensen: Representative Project - efficient physical simulation in video games
Spring 2008
- Benjamin Gleitzman: Faculty Thesis Project - robot culture: value systems for thinking machines
Fall 2007
- Charles Amick: Faculty MEng Thesis Project - mobile networks based on social patterns
- John Burnham: IPP Project - remote life sign sensing for Soldiers
- Daniel Eads: Representative Project - gathering information from posters on bulletin boards
Last Updated: May 29, 2017