Oral Presentation

9^th International Symposium on Electrical Engineering - ISEE 2011

22-23 November, Targoviste, Romania

Oral Presentation Instructions

1. Structure of Oral Presentations

Each technical session room will be set with a projector and a PC. To ensure the smooth running of presentations at this meeting we would kindly ask the presenters to note the following;

1.1. All presentations should be loaded onto the PC before the start of the   session. Please make sure that you load your presentation before the session starts. All presenters are kindly asked to be there at least ten minutes before their presentation, for preparing the files/computer/etc.

1.2. Under NO circumstances will presenters be allowed to use their own laptops for presentation purposes.

1.3. Presentations may be in either Microsoft Powerpoint format or Adobe PDF format. In Powerpoint it is advisable to embed truetype fonts when saving (Tools menu > Options > Save tab) to minimise font problems. If your presentation is made up of pdf files, please make sure that all the fonts are embedded in the document.

1.4. Presenters must bring their presentation on CD or USB storage device. For backup we suggest that you have both.

1.5. Presentations must run on an IBM compatible computer.

1.6. You should introduce yourself to the Chairs of your session before the session starts. Please present to the session chair a short biography (not more than 5 lines).

1.7. Each presenter will have approximately 12 minutes to present their paper, plus 3 minutes for questions. Session chairs will be instructed to keep all authors strictly to this time allocation.

Overhead projection presentations will NOT be available.

2. Preparation of Oral Presentations

An oral presentation consists of approximately 12 minutes for presentation of the paper, including an overview of the problem, the novel approach in the paper and results. An additional 3 minutes are available for discussion with the attendees. The presenter should prepare a reasonable number of slides within the electronic document, so as not to exceed the 15 minute time window. As a rule of thumb, one slide is presented in one minute. Additional illustrations could be prepared to support possible answers to attendees' questions.

Each page should not be crowded with too much text and/or graphics. Illustrations should support the presentation, they should not be simply read by the presenter. Graphics help in communications, are more understandable, and point out the basic ideas. Use large fonts that can be read easily, e.g. a font size of at least 18-20 points should be used.

Presentations should be clearly structured. A typical presentation would include:

• A title slide for the paper with the names of authors and their affiliations;

• Outline of the presentation;

• Motivation and problem definition;

• Background with a literature review;

• Main body of the paper;

• Key findings and their discussion;

• Conclusions

Authors are encouraged to rehearse their presentations via a trial run with their colleagues at their home institutions rather than giving it for the first time at the conference.