INSPIRE 2014 Poster Guidelines

INSPIRE 14 POSTER GUIDELINES

PLANNING YOUR POSTER

Plan a poster that contains images and text, visible clearly from a distance

and easily understandable to the viewer

Plan with a smooth sequence of information you wish to present

Images you wish to use should not be pixilated

Remember visual aids are such as graphs, charts are more attractive and

viewer-friendly than plain text

TECHNICALITIES

Portrait, A1 size poster, made on flex

Send it in a digital format (jpg, jpeg)

Use images at high resolution

TITLE AND LAYOUT

Title should be brief but should give an idea of what would come next.

Title and main points should be prominent like bold or underlined. People

will stop to see your poster only if they find the title clear yet intriguing

The information you put in should be in any sequence of your choice such as

columns. It should be obvious for the viewer to figure out where to look next

Make an eye catching layout but do not make it too congested, edit

irrelevant information.

Use graphs/charts/trees etc. to display data or technical information. A

template is attached with this document.

OBJECTIVITY

This is the most important part. Your poster although should describe well

about your internship experience answering questions such as

How did you find it

What did you in it

Why did you do it

What projects/fields did you work on and how

But apart from being descriptive, it should be objective meaning it should

give idea of what did you achieve from it and how has it made you better

than before answering questions such as

What knowledge and experience did you gain from it

How is this helpful and beneficial to your education/ learning and thinking

How does it make you more productive in your field

Your poster should have a conclusion or goal deducible by the viewer,

although you will give a presentation, your poster should speak its language

too!

JUDGING CRITERIA

Overall Poster

• Content –Project/Methodology

• Poster Display

• Design/organization of poster

• Aesthetics of the poster

• Presentation –Verbal overview of the project

Presenter’s Oral Discussion of the Project

• 4-5 minute overview of project

• 2 -3 minute question and answer session

TEMPLATE AND PRINTING BY:

www.POSTERPRESENTATIONS.com

SUIT Poster Template – Poster Title

Author Name The name and address of the associated Department

ABSTRACT

OTHER HEADINGS CONTACT INFORMATION VISION STATEMENT

RECOMMENDATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The abstract of the manuscript should not

exceed 150 words and must be arranged

section wise i.e. background, main findings and

potential implications.

To change the font style of this text box: Click

on the border once to highlight the entire text

box, then select a different font or font size that

suits you. This text is in Arial 34pt and is easily

readable up to 6 feet away on a 3’ x 4’ poster.

Try to stay between 28pt – 40pt for best

viewing.

Keywords: The author must provide three to

five keywords.

MISSION STATEMENT

Write the mission statement of the organization

where you have done internship. A mission

statement is a formal, short, written statement

of the purpose of a company or organization.

UET’s Mission: To play a leading role as a

University of Engineering and Technology and

conduct teaching and research that is

internationally relevant and has a direct bearing

on country’s industrial, technological and

economic development.

Write the vision statement of the organization

where you have done internship. A vision

statement is a picture of organization in future.

UET’s Vision:

To generate knowledge for global competitive

advantage and become a leading world class

Engineering University.

INTRODUCTION

This section basically describes the

organization where you have done internship.

The raw materials, processes, operations,

products, capacity, structure of organization,

sister firms and certifications etc.

Click here to insert your Introduction text. Type

it in or copy and paste from your Word

document or other source. Click once on the

dashed border to highlight then drag the bottom

edge up to fit. Or change the font size to fill the

box.







viewing.

Every organization is different, so don’t feel like

you have to mash your round pegs to fit into

this template’s square holes. Add sections and

headings as are dictated by your training.

PROJECT

This section basically describes your job / work.

You had a procedure to describe how the

specific working / manufacturing / process

description that would go in here.

Likewise, you would provide information about

a chart review in this section as well.

Click here to insert your Introduction text. Type

it in or copy and paste from your Word

document or other source. Click once on the

dashed border to highlight then drag the bottom

edge up to fit. Or change the font size to fill the

box.







viewing.

CONCLUSIONS

BLOCK DIAGRAMS / PFDs / PIDs

Here is where you put your eyeball grabbing

data. Remember to number all figures and add

caption under the figures.

The height / space under each headings are

customizable.

The acknowledgments of the contributions of

trainers / colleagues can be stated in this

section.

This should be brief suggestions and

recommendations for improving the job / work.

The big finish, where you get to blow your

audience away with your final, pithy comment.

Registration #: Year-CH-000

Email: [email protected]

Phone: Optional

Organization: Name of Industry

Address: Postal Address of Industry

Organization

LOGO

mailto:[email protected]

Inspire 2014 A Chemical Engineering Perspective

Judging Criteria

• Content

• Poster Display

• Presentation

Based on:

Content

• Company profile

• Operation of the plant (products and applications?)

• Plant design

• Methodologies and processes used

Content

• Flow diagram

• Industrial environment/challenges

• Work/ Duties/ Projects Description

• Advantages and disadvantages of the processes used with justifications/suggested improvements

Company profile

• Name of the company

• General information

• Products, scale

• Subsidiaries, Certification

Operation of the plant (products and applications?)

• Applications of/demand for the product

manufactured at the plant (brief)

Plant Design

• Details of the plant design

• Data such as the capacity of the plant, the amount of raw materials used, quantity of product produced, amount of power input, financial investment needed, amount of profit returned, quantity of waste material, personnel required, types of machines used etc

• Not all points are necessary

Methodologies and processes used • Basic principles on which each process works

• What makes it effective?

• What are the disadvantages?

• What are the problems/hazards?

• How are they overcome?

• Is it environmentally-friendly?

• How is quality assured?

Flow Diagram

• Should be able to depict both – plant layout, and order of steps

• Make it complete and comprehensive

• Easy to understand

Work/ Duties/ Projects Description

• Nature of internship

• What was your basic learning e.g. technical knowledge gained, other skills developed?

• What were the tasks assigned to you as an internee?

• How did you manage them?

• Relation with academic studies (optional)

Industrial environment/challenges

• What are the general challenges of working in an industrial environment? For e. g. release of fumes/dust, hazardous equipment, dealing with co-workers, etc

• How are these challenges overcome?

Advantages and disadvantages of the processes used with

justifications/suggested improvements

• Advantages and disadvantages of the processes/overall process

• Justifications of advantages and disadvantages

• Suggested improvements

Inspire 2014 A Civil Engineering Perspective

Judging Criteria

• Content

• Poster Display

• Presentation

Based on:

Content • Introduction

• Project Description

• Work assignments

• Site/Office Activities

• Your experience/duty and how you managed it

• Advantages of internship

Introduction • Objective

Briefly describe the objective of your internship

• Company Profile

General information about the company

• Field Description

Field of internship weather it is structures, geotechnical, water resources etc

Project Description

• Project name

• Type of project

• Project specifications/parameters

• Client/Contractor/consultant

• Current situation of the project (mention the phase of the project)

• Cost of project

• Starting and completion date

Work assignments

• Define your Assigned task/nature of job

• Task supervised by ?

• Key personals involved in your task

• Software used

• Time spent on the job

Site/Office Activities • Construction

• Testing

• Designing

• Site/Office environment

• challenges

Your experience/duty at the plant and how you managed it



• What was your basic learning?

• Develop the co-ordination chart

Advantages of internship

• Advantages of your internship

• Technical and non technical lessons learned

• Develop the relation between course work and office work

AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

PERSPECTIVE…

Content Poster Display

Presentation

Objectives

Company Profile

Work Description

Internship Type (General)

Internship Type (Project based)

Flow Diagram

Industrial Challenges

Technical Questions

Your Experience

Advantages of Internship

Briefly describe the objective of your internship/project

State whether your internship was

General

Project Based

Name of the company

Departments

Organogram of Technical Section

Products / Services

Subsidiaries

ISO and other Certification

Your sub department/s (e.g. design, inspection, maintenance

etc.)

Specifications of technology and process used there

Compare it to a state-of-the-art department.

Work Description:

General Type

Project Based

Work description of your department

Specifications of equipment used in the department

Work assignments and reports

Office/Workshop environment

Safety and environmental standards being followed

Your supervisor’s comments about your approach

Starting and completion date

Equipment/Software used in your project

Office/workshop environment

Findings/ final results of project

Cost analysis of the complete project

Project Supervisor’s comments on your work

How your project proved to be beneficial for the company

Reports

Describe process layout

Describe the role of electrical engineer

Order of steps

Depict complete picture

Be comprehensive and easy to understand

What are the general challenges of working in an industrial

environment?

Equipment safety

Personal safety

How are these challenges overcome?

Technical expertise required for the job

Personal attributes required for the job

What were your duties during internship?

How did you manage them?

What was your basic learning?

Develop the co-ordination chart

Management qualities you feel are necessary for an engineer

Advantages of your internship

Technical and non-technical lessons learned

How it helps to impart professionalism in someone’s

personality

Develop the relation between course work and office work

For the poster format, click here.

http://nss.nust.edu.pk/inspire/Inspire_Poster_Format.pdf

Inspire 2014 An Environmental Engineering Perspective

Judging Criteria

• Content

• Poster Display

• Presentation

Based on:

Content

• Introduction about the company/govt. agency

• Speciality of/services provided by the organization (govt. or NGO) / treatment plant?

• Methodologies and processes used

Content

• Flow diagram

• Office/field environment/challenges

• Your experience/duty in the field and how you managed it

• Advantages and disadvantages of the processes/methods used with justifications/suggested improvements

Introduction about the company • Name of the company

• General information about the company (very brief) for e.g. is it an NGO, a govt. institution, when was it established, the number of branches/laboratories, etc

• What kind of environmental services does this company provide?

• Legislative role (for a govt. agency), Certification

Purpose of the govt. agency/what is its role?

• Why was the govt. agency needed?/why was it set up?

• What legislative powers does the agency have?

• Applications of/demand for environmental legislation and/or regulation. (very brief)

Speciality of the NGO/what services does it provide?

• Why were these environmental services needed?/why was the NGO set up?

• Applications of/demand for the services provided by the NGO (very brief)

Plant Design

• Details of the plant design

• Data such as the capacity of the plant, quality of raw water, quality of processed water, amount of power input, financial investment needed, quantity of waste material, personnel required, types of machines used etc


Methodologies and processes used • Basic principles on which each process works

• What makes it effective?

• What are the disadvantages?

• What are the problems/hazards?

• How are they overcome?

• Is it environmentally-friendly?

• How is quality assured?

Flow Diagram (in case of a treatment plant)




Industrial environment/challenges

• What are the general challenges of working in an office/field/industrial environment? For e.g. handling of toxic/contaminated/hazardous wastes, hazardous equipment, dealing with others, etc


Your experience/duty at the organization/plant and how you managed it

• What were the tasked assigned to you as an internee?


• What were your basic learnings?

Advantages and disadvantages of the processes used with

justifications/suggested improvements

• Advantages and disadvantages of the processes/methods/legislation

• Justifications of advantages and disadvantages

• Suggested improvements

INSPIRE 2014

A Materials Engineering Perspective

Content

Introduction of the Institute

Nature of Internship (project-based or lab-rotation)

Work description (Project-Based)

Work description (Lab Rotation)

Methods and Materials

Flow diagram

Advantages and disadvantages

Your Experience


Introduction of the Industry/Facility

Name of the industry/facility

General information

Labs, machinery, materials

Processes going on, objectives

Work environment, safety measures

Certification, if any

Nature of Internship

Project-based internships

If you worked as a part of a project and helped in a industrial

process, R&D work or product manufacturing

Work rotation/supervision/administrative

If you underwent organizing processes or administrative work

during the time of your internship in the work place and learnt

different techniques

Work Description

(Project-Based Internship)

Abstract of the Project

Problem Statement/purpose of manufacturing

Background and related processes/research performed

previously in the same area

Principal Investigator/Head of the Project

Facilities, machinery, equipment, you used to carry out

processes

Current situation/phase of the project

Time line of the Project

Impact of the Project

Starting and completion date of your internship

Work Description

(Work Rotation/Administrative)

Facilities of the industry/facility where you interned

Techniques you performed or were given a demonstration of

Machinery, equipment and processes you used or learnt to use

Your supervisor


Materials, Methods and Gear

Basic principles and techniques

Machinery and processes used and their involvement in in your

product manufacturing/research

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

What are the problems/hazards?

How are they overcome?

Flow Diagram

Describe the steps of your entire processes/analysis in flow

chart

Order of steps



• Product manufacturing

• Product/material testing

• Material refining

• Plant/Industry/facility environment

• challenges

Plant/Industry Activities

Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages and disadvantages of the techniques used

Justifications of each advantages and disadvantages

Suggested improvements

Your Experience

What were the tasks assigned to you?







personality

Develop the relation between course work and lab work

Inspire 2014 A Mechanical Engineering Perspective

Contents

1. Objective; 2. Company Profile; 3. Work Description; 4. Technical questions; 5. General questions;

01: Objective

• Briefly describe the objective of your internship

(State whether your internship was “General” or “Project Based”)

02: Company profile

• Name of the company; • Departments; • Organogram of Technical Section; • Products / Services; • Subsidiaries; • ISO and other Certification;

03: Work Description

• State your sub department/s (e.g. design, inspection, maintenance etc.). Also state the level of technology and process used there and compare it to a state-of-art department.

Work description

Project based Internship

General Type Internship

Continued….

(For Project based internship) • Sub department; • Project Objective; • Starting and completion date; • Equipment/Software used in the department and their level of up

gradation; • Describe office/workshop environments; • Findings/ final results of project; • Cost analysis of the complete project; • Project Supervisor comments on your work; • How your project proved to be beneficial for the company, • Reports,

Continued….

(For General Type Internship • Explain the “work organogram” of your respective sub department i.e.

the types of tasks and jobs being done there and the flow of tasks from head of the department to a simple mechanic and vice versa;

• Different machinery/ software used in the department and their level of up gradation.

• Work assignments / Reports; • Describe office/workshop environments; • Explain in detail the safety and environmental standards being followed, • Your supervisor comments about your professional approach, Note : Explain all of the above points for all the Sub departments you worked in during internship.

04: Technical Questions • List the level of technical expertise and different processes being

used in areas like design, inspection, maintenance, piping, Turbo-machinery, thermo fluids etc. ;

• State the flaws and shortcoming you find in the department w.r.t technical knowledge and processes and how you can improve them to increase company efficiency;

• State the factory floor hazards which workers faces during work and the preventive measures that the company has taken;

05: General Questions • What were your duties during internship? How you

managed them? • List few advantages of doing internship; • List technical and non-technical lessons learned; • How it helps to impart professionalism in someone

personality; • Explain the difference between class room learning and

factory floor learning- how similar, how different; • What management qualities you feel are necessary for an

engineer;

INSPIRE 2014

A Medical and Biosciences Perspective

Content


Nature of Internship (project-based or lab-rotation)

Work description (Project-Based)

Work description (Lab Rotation)


Flow diagram

Advantages and disadvantages

Your Experience



Name of the Institute

General information

Labs and Projects

Certification, if any

Nature of Internship

Project-based internships

If you worked as a part of a project and helped complete some

portion of the research being performed

Lab Rotation

If you underwent lab rotation during the time of your internship in

the Institute and learnt different techniques

Work Description

(Project-Based Internship)

Abstract of the Project

Problem Statement

Background and related research performed previously on the

topic

Principal Investigator/Head of the Project

Labs of the Institute where you carried out related experiments

Current situation/phase of the project

Time line of the Project

Impact of the Project


Work Description

(Lab Rotation)

Labs of the Institute where you interned

Techniques you performed or were given a demonstration of

Research equipment you used or learnt to use

Your supervisor



Basic principles of techniques

Principle behind the equipment used

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

What are the problems/hazards?

How are they overcome?

Flow Diagram

Describe the steps of your experiments in flow chart

Order of steps



Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages and disadvantages of the techniques used

Justifications of each advantages and disadvantages

Suggested improvements

Your Experience

What were the tasks assigned to you?







personality

Develop the relation between course work and lab work

Inspire 2014 A Software Engineering Perspective

Content

• Company/organization profile

• Nature of the organization/company(software production, Data bank, troubleshooting and support, other organizations)

• Work environment, work structure, objectives

• Methodologies, equipment, programs involved

Content

• Flow diagram

• Work environment/challenges

• Work/ Duties/ Projects Description

• Advantages of the internship used with justifications/suggested improvements

Company/Organization profile

• Name of the company/organization

• General information(Government/private, corporate/technical, objectives)

• Products and services

• Subsidiaries, Certification

Operations(products and applications?)

• Applications of/demand for the programs/tools designed (brief)

• Tools/software and equipment employed to create them

• Nature of the programs created(technical/corporate/business use, public use etc.

Work Environment and Structure

• Details of the work place

• Data such as the capacity, the number of employees/interns, quantity of product and demand, amount of power input, financial investment needed, amount of profit returned, required personnel, equpment and resources used etc.


Flow Diagram




Work/ Duties/ Projects Description

• Nature of internship

• What was your basic learning e.g. technical knowledge gained, other skills developed?



• Relation with academic studies (optional)

Work Environment challenges

• What are the general challenges of working in a company/organization?


Inspire 2014 A Business Administration

Perspective

Judging Criteria

• Content

• Poster Display

• Presentation

Based on:

Content • Introduction

• Project Description

• Work assignments

• Office Activities

• Your experience/duty and how you managed it

• Advantages of internship

Introduction • Objective

Briefly describe the objective of your internship as finance management/human resourse management/marketing person.

• Company/market/financial/non-financial Institution/regulatory body Profile

General information

• Task Description

Task assigned of internship: human resource management/capacity building/training, financial mangement/ operations/ deposits/saving schemes/ risk management/ foreign exchange, marketing/advertising, research and development etc

Project Description

• Institute/financial and non-financial, organization , marketing, company name

• Type : Human resource related department, marketing related department or finance related department of institution/organization/financial and non financial institution.

• Assigned task specification: Managing the human resource or finance or marketing and sub-department of three categories of business specialization.

• Explain the work organism of each sub-department you worked for.

• What are your supervisor comments in each sub-department.

• Would you share your opinion to improve efficiency in different sub-departments

• What is the objective of the organization regarding their internship program: load sharing or capacity building in the finance/marketing/human resource.

Work assignments

• Define your Assigned task/nature of job at each sub-department.

• Task supervised by Senior persons and flow of task from the head of sub-department to internee?

• Key personals involved in your task

• Software used

• Time spent on the job in public dealing/survey of market/record keeping/training or capacity building/financial management.

Office Activities

• Public dealing

• Maintaining the record

• Report writing

• Meetings

• Marketing/advertising and other methods to promote marketing

• Managing finance/attracting investment/risk management

• Training/capacity building

• Office environment

• Challenges: in public dealing, completing the tasks, learning the software/e-banking/e-commerce/e-governance.

Your experience/duty at the company/organization/institution and how you managed it

• What were the tasks assigned to you as an internee and what you learn after completing them?


• What was your basic learning after becoming a part of company/market/financial Institution?

• Develop the co-ordination chart


• Advantages of your internship in Business studies in understanding financial/human resource management/marketing.

• List the level of technical expertise you attain during working in the three above said departments etc.

• Identify the shortcomings/flaws in different sub-department you worked and suggest the steps to improve their efficiency and overall company/market/institutions’ performance.

• Discuss the factors that makes the environment more customer friendly and based on good governance.

• Highlight the steps to improve this organization as a world class in human resource/finance or marketing.

Advantages of internship Cont…

• How this internship impart professionalism in your personality. • To what extent it enable you to deal with business in most efficient

way. • Do you recommend steps to improve efficiency, governance,

awareness and innovation of the organization. • Has internship helped to chose your career. • Develop the relation between course work of human resource

management/marketing/ financial institutions and office work while working with a comapany/market/financial organization.

• Are you in a position to guide juniors to chose internship programs in financial and non-financial institutions such as Stock Exchange, Securities and Exchange Commission, Foreign Exchange, Market, Banks, Mutual Funds etc. as marketing person or finance or human resource management person.

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INSPIRE 2014 Poster Guidelines