To provide a professional appearance, all team members must, at minimum, be in business casual clothing.

Please plan on being ready to present your poster and answer questions during the entire time. All team members should be present during this time. So that there is no overcrowding or lack of representation at the tables, please work out a schedule with your team to ensure that the tables are properly manned with team members to answer questions clearly, correctly, and promptly for the duration of the event.

External reviewers will use the rubric below to evaluate your project. Please prepare your answers ahead of time.

Project Definition	Exemplary 4	Proficient 3	Apprentice 2	Novice 1
1. Background	Detailed background, previous work, prerequisites, and motivation were highlighted to show project significance.	Project background, previous work, and motivation were discussed.	Incomplete discussion of the background and motivation.	Background and motivation were not discussed.
2. Goal and Objectives	Well-defined goal. In-depth objectives are aligned to achieve goal.	Defined goal with objectives to support it.	Weak goal with incomplete objectives.	Inconsistent goal and objectives.
Project Management
3. Organization	Functional responsibilities of all project members are aligned to a work breakdown structure.	Functional responsibilities of each member are clear.	Functional responsibilities of some members are not clear.	No functional responsibilities were identified.
4. Timeline	Detailed timeline consistent with work breakdown structure showing, milestones, deadlines, and deliverables.	Timeline shown with milestones, deadlines, and deliverables.	Timeline is too general or unclear.	No timeline presented.
5. Progress	Excellent progress. Task management is clearly shown. Team members are actively working on tasks and delivering results to ensure project success.	Good progress. Evidence of task management albeit with less structure.	Some progress. The team can benefit from task management.	Little progress shown.
Technical Approach
6. Design Requirements	Clear and concrete evidence of ability to understand the design requirements, understand the limitations, analyze different alternatives, and provide a feasible design.	Technical approach shows that the design requirements were understood.	Mismatch between design requirements and technical approach.	Did not understand the design requirements.
7. The Bigger Picture	In-depth discussion of the business, competitive, economic, environmental, social, scientific, and/or academic impact and significance.	Identified the connection between the project and a greater significance.	Connection of the project to a greater significance is weak.	Unable to connect project to a greater significance.
Realistic Constraints
8. Budget	Detailed budget that is well thought out.	Budget presented and is complete.	Budget presented but is questionable.	No budget presented.
9. Feasibility	Objective(s), scope, and approach are feasible and can be completed in agreed time frame.	Objective(s), scope, and approach seem feasible, but may take longer than originally projected.	Objective(s), scope, and approach need to be reworked.	Objective(s), scope, and approach are not feasible.
Presentation
10. Visual Communication	Excellent, relevant, compelling visual aids depicting the project and/or the elements of the project.	Clear visual aids depicting the project and/or the elements of the project.	The visual aids are unclear.	The visual aids were not useful.
11. Delivery	Clear, polished, confident.	Understandable and comfortable.	Understandable yet tentative.	Delivery detracts.

Invited industry members are asked to preview the projects at ucimaeprojects.com. Your team’s webpage needs to be updated to show your project’s information, poster, peer review video, and blogs. To show high-level of professionalism, please review your team’s content on the webpage and revise necessary. For blog posts, make sure you select the appropriate team in the category so that it will automatically appear on your webpage.

Also, please review the Fall Design Review Poster Presentation Guidelines (click here).

Check in at the MAE area to determine where your team will setup.

If the event is held outdoors, there will be a contingent location should it rain.