2024-02-16 BPS PDR Dry Run Notes

Date

16 Feb 2024

Attendees

• Sidharth Babu

• Nathan Lemma 

• Lakshay Gupta 
• Champers Fu 
• Aniruddh Mishra 
• Kartik Rai 
• Michael Mohn 
• Ninette Sokhon 

Goals

• Dry Run for PDR, provide feedback

Discussion Agenda

Sidharth's Presentation Notes / Critiques

Speaker Notes:

Nathan:

• Good projection, good cadence, good facing the audience.

Lakshay:

• Face the audience, not the slides
• Pause instead of "um" or other crutch words. It is more professional.
• Pacing is variable. Pause after each slide, and clearly introduce them.
• reading straight off slides for the most part
• Speaking very fast

Champers:

• Speaking way too fast 
• Over reliant on slide itself
• Assuming too much about what people know

Aniruddh:

Kartik:

• Good cadence, good projection

Michael:

• Casual language
• Great pacing
• Face the audience

Ninette:

• Excellent pacing, speech cadence is very good

System Overview

• No pictures :(
• Too many words
• Use highlights to emphasize
• Use tables and other organization structures to 

Next-Gen Hardware

• Generally:
  
  • Not seeing enough comparative analysis on why you're doing things
  • JUSTIFY YOUR DESIGNS!!!!

• Ignition Sequence:
  
  • Like the picture
  • Clearly show old vs new, it is not clear
  • why old system sucks
• Som architecture:
  • way too many words on the first slide
  • Can put most of this in speaker notes
• Next Gen BPS slide
  • Why different colors on labels? Not good
  • randomly starts talking about CAN, never introduce it ahead of time (tell me what you need it for)
• PeripheralSOM slide:
  • Abbreviate your bullet points
  • You can give the most basic ideas in the bullet points,
    and explain in the presentation itself
  • no CAN preface 
• BPS leader Board
  • Weird naming when you previously started with a psom slide
  • Start with a leaderSOM and then talk about the leader's full functionality
  • Good pictures though
  • Again, clearly highlight what things are for
  • Said "as I was talking about earlier" → You never introduce clearly what the components are in a digestible way
• VoltTemp: Voltage
  • WAY TOO MANY WORDS
  • Font is tiny?
  • Specific chips can be a appendix / speaker note 
    • "The specific chip is xxx, and details are in the appendix"
  • Good explanation from champers on why you're switching
• VoltTemp: Temperature
  • Good introductory technical explanation
  • Again, too many words
  • Speeding up trying to read everything - Make your life easier, put less words on the slides and use speaker notes and practice
• BPS Debugging Board:
  • Explanation about why debug board is needed was good
  • Only slide where I really got a justification

Next-Gen Software

• Embedded-Sharepoint
  
  • Good comparative analysis of HAL vs SPL
  • Didn't tell me a ton of what ESHARE does though or really why
    • Tell me why having a common core is good
• FreeRTOS:
  
  • Somewhat of a comparative analysis, but could be clearer
  • Could limit text a bit more, but voerall decent slide
  • Don't need the "subpoints" just making them speaker notes
• HAL Drivers Migration, Why?
  • Telling me benefits - good
  • Tell me the cons you've identified, and why they're acceptable
• State of Charge Calculation
  • Not too much text - good
• State of Charge 2
  
  • COMPARISON TABLE!!! GREAT!
  • If you put kalman filter on here, people will ask question about it. Be prepared
• Dynamic Drift / Error Correction
  • way too much text
  • Brought up why our particular system is special (charges and discharges during runtime) - emphasize this as a justification

BPS' Presentation Notes / Critiques

Ninette's Presentation Notes / Critiques

System Overview

• Lakshay
  • Face the audience
  • Don't read the slides word for word
  • Slow down to let the audience comprehend
  • SLOWWWW DOWN
  • So many words on the slides 

Next-Gen Hardware

• Champers
  • Good speed
  • Nice, simple diagram/picture
  • Too many words on VoltTemp slides
  • Well explained
• Lakshay
  • Better speed
  • Simplify syntax

Next-Gen Software

• Michael
  • Good speed
  • Simplify text... maybe add images
• Kartik
  • Explained well
• Nathan
  • Perfect table!
  • Why Dynamic Drift / Error Correction WALL OF TEXT
  • Good understanding of the topic

Nathan's Presentation Notes / Critiques

Presenters

• Lakshay
  • Talk to the audience, not the screen. Overall, good presentation
• Champers
  • Good speed and presentation
• Ninette
  • Good speed and explanations
• Micheal
  • Good speed and presentation
• Kartik
  • Explained well

Takeaways

• Why did you go down that path
• Why are you doing things this way
• Uniform, easy-to-read slides
• Go in the depth of each idea and topic

Action items