Oral Presentations

Students making oral presentations will have 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions.  If you finish early, the session chair will not call the next student to the podium until that talk is officially scheduled in the program.  So, please do not speak too fast and pace your talk so it fills the allotted time. 

Your talk will begin exactly at the time it is scheduled in the program.  If you have an emergency regarding your presentation please call Dr. Mohammed Eyadat at 310 243-2132 so that accommodations can be made.

Arrive at your session at least 15 minutes before it begins to load your presentation on the computer (memory stick is preferred).  If you do not load your presentation before the session begins, you will have to load it at the beginning of your presentation time thereby taking away valuable minutes for speaking.

You will be introduced by the session chair who will read your name and the names of the other authors as well as the title of your talk and author affiliations.  Be sure to have a title slide with the title of your talk, the authors names, listing yours first, your department at CSU Dominguez Hills as well as the departments and schools of the other authors if they are off campus.  The audience needs to visually see the title, who did the study and where the authors are located.

Also have a slide at the end of your talk acknowledging those who helped you complete your study and well as any grant or other support that enabled you to do your research, scholarship or creative activity.

Poster Presentations/Expo Presentations

Posters must be mounted on a hard backing to stand on a presentation easel.  No posters can be adhered to the walls in the pre-function area of the Dominguez Ballroom.

The Office of Academic Programs has tri-fold boards that we will give you for your poster.  You can mount your text, graphs/tables or other information to the boards.  You may also use other types of thick, rigid cardboard to support your poster.  If you have any questions please email Dr. Eyadat at meyadat@csudh.edu or call the Office of Academic Programs at 310 243-3693.

Posters should have an introduction, methods, results and conclusions section along with a listing of the literature cited and acknowledgements to those who helped you complete your project.  Please consult with your faculty mentor to design your poster as if it were being presented at a professional conference in your field. 

Judging

Oral presentations, posters, displays and other Expo exhibits will be judged.  Students receiving top scores will receive monetary awards of at least $100 (we hope it will be more).

The table below shows the scoring criteria used by the judges.  There are three judges/session.   Oral and Expo exhibits, specifically the posters, will be judged using the same criteria.  Depending of what is submitted for the Expo, we may have to develop specific criteria for certain types of displays/presentations. 

The presentation with the top score will be the overall winner and will receive a monetary award (value of the award will be determined but will be greater than that for the discipline specific awards).  The remaining students who receive the highest or next highest score in each particular discipline will also receive monetary awards.  If the winning presentation is a group effort, each student will receive a full award.

The top ten highest scored presentations (regardless of discipline) will represent CSU Dominguez Hills at the statewide CSU Student Research Competition held in late April-early May.  We will pay all travel costs for the presenters to attend the event and represent our campus.  The site of this year's competition is yet to be announced.