As many of my lab mates are graduating, I decided to share my files here with them.
Since all of my papers were written using MS Word, I wrote my dissertation with MS Word as well. I had to learn some tricks to do the required formatting. To save your time, I am sharing my source file so you can use them for formatting*.
Dissertation Presentation in PPT
Here are some comments about the final things that needs to be done:
- Prepare a co-author letter and collect signature from all co-authors. The sample letter is in the formatting booklet. Take it to the exam and collect the signatures. It makes life much easier.
- The main content of dissertation is you papers. But you need to add introduction section and conclusion sections. The conclusions should have some future works as well.
- Use animations in your presentation. Specially for describing the algorithms. It really helped me to improve my presentation (slides 48-65). You can also look at my qualifying exam slides for another example of animations for algorithms (slides 19-24, slides 25-29, and slides 31 and 32).
- Use some graphical slides for overview of dissertation in the beginning of the presentation.
- Re-use that overview slide when transitioning from chapter to chapter and emphasize on the new subject. You can see how I did it in my dissertation slides.
- You don't need to repeat your whole research in the final exam. The whole presentation should be 45-50 minutes. About 10-15 minutes should be the summary of what you did up to your qualifying exam and the rest should be what you did after your qualifying exam!
Good luck 🙂
*The source file can only be used as formatting guide, any other uses such as copying or reformatting for printing is prohibited.
