ENGR 101/ ETCS 101 Spring 2009
ETCS Reverse Engineering Project
Poster Presentation
The ETCS Reverse Engineering Project is intended to achieve the following objectives:
Provide ENGR/ETCS 101 students with experience in visual communication, project
organization and presentation.
Provide ENGR/ETCS 101 students with experience analyzing and evaluating the design of
an engineered product.
Provide new ideas for activities and demonstrations for future ETCS/ENGR 101 classes.
Students, working in teams, must include the following elements in their posters:
(a) a clear title and listing of all group members who contributed to the project.
(b) a description of the function and basic operating characteristics of your product including
experiments and measurements completed by the group. Be quantitative whenever possible.
(c) a presentation how the product works. This should be documented with information and
illustrations from: (i) your dissection, and (ii) from your background research
(d) a specific discussion of how the product, its operation or its dissection might be used in a
future 101 class. Include what principles or discipline it could illustrate and specifics of
how it could be used in class.
(e) a bibliography – this must include any relevant material from the references provided with
the initial assignment, and must include at least one Helmke Library reference. Helmke
Library reverences can be either print materials in the library or materials from the library’s
subscription databases.
(f) visual/graphical presentation prepared by our group. All text and graphics must be created
by your group (i.e., please do not use text or images from print or web sources). All
graphic elements must be clearly labeled
You may also include information on how the product is made, what various types are available
and other interesting facts you have learned.
During the Finals Period, posters will be displayed for review and comments by the IPFW
community and other ENGR/ETCS 101 students.
Foam Core Poster boards 2’ x 3’ (one per team) will be provided by the School of Engineering,
Technology and Computer Science. Guidelines for preparing a poster are included on the second
page of this handout. All materials for the poster must be computer generated, or of similar or
better quality.
All students will complete a peer evaluation of their team. These peer evaluations will have an
impact on final individual grades. Peer evaluations forms will be available at the end of the
term.
