Presentation Savvy: Upskilling Your Technical Presentations

Description

Course Description
Engineers are often required to communicate their technical ideas to those who don't have the same background. To be able to communicate technical ideas effectively helps lend credibility to engineers’ work and ensures that the work of engineers can more effectively contribute to change at research, academia, industry, and policy levels. This session aims to discuss the theoretical principles behind developing effective presentation skills and prepare engineers with practical tools to make presentations that are more understandable and engaging. Please note that both the pre-event and post-event surveys must be completed in order to earn CEU/PDH credits for the course.

Immediately following the web event, join us for an exclusive post-event workshop with Melissa Marshall. During this one-hour workshop, Melissa will provide further guidance and insights to help you refine your presentation skills.

Paid registration for the post-event workshop is limited to the first 50 who register. Once you register for the live web event, you'll receive information for the post-event workshop via email.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:

Recognize how to develop effective technical presentations
Describe how to deliver technical presentations with confidence
Describe at least three strategies to effectively communicate technical concepts with any audience

Duration:
Live Web Event: 60 minutes
Post Event Workshop: 60 minutes

Accreditations:
This course offers 0.10 CEUs / 1.0 PDH. To receive CEU/PDH, you must complete both the pre-event and post-event surveys included in this course.

SWE is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

Contributors

Melissa Marshall

Melissa believes that even the best science is destined to remain undiscovered unless it’s presented in a clear and compelling way that sparks innovation and drives adoption.

She’s passionate about showing often-skeptical scientists and technical professionals that they really can change how they present for the better, without changing themselves.

For the past decade, Melissa has traveled around the world to work with Fortune 100 corporations, institutions and universities, teaching the proven strategies she’s mastered through her consulting work and her 10 years as a faculty member at Penn State University. In 2019, 2020, and 2021, Microsoft recognized Melissa’s work empowering the technical community to use PowerPoint to design slides more effectively by naming her as one of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals (MVP).