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Information and
Instructions for Guest Lecturers
Guest Lecturers,
Thank you once again for your willingness to
participate in the Stanford Course: Perspectives in Assistive
Technology.
Presentation topic: Your talk can be
anything that relates to disability, rehabilitation, assistive technology, or
design techniques. You should have both expertise and passion for the topic.
You should plan for about an hour presentation including questions. Please
consider bringing items to show, pass around, and demonstrate as this adds
interest to your talk.
Information needed: If you haven't
done so already, please provide me with the following information for the class
website and announcements:
- Title of your talk
- One paragraph description of your
talk
- One paragraph biosketch
- Contact information that you would like to
give out
- A digital photograph (head
shot)
Class location: The class will be held
in Classroom 370 in Building 370 in the Main Quad. Refer to the
Classroom Location and Accessibility
Information webpage for driving directions and parking instructions. Let me
know if you would like me to mail you a printed map highlighting the classroom
location and nearby parking areas.
Parking information:
- Parking at Stanford does not require a
permit (or feeding meters) after 4pm.
- Your best chance of finding a parking
space is around the Oval or in the parking lot adjacent to Tressider
Union.
- Refer to the
online campus
map for the location of other parking lots.
- Please refer to a map to find you way from
your car to the classroom.
Class time:
- Please plan to arrive at the classroom by
4pm for setup.
- Please consider the time needed to
navigate around campus and to find a parking space.
- Class begins promptly at
4:15pm.
- The lecture ends at approximately
5:30pm.
- The class will start with a short
interactive session (10 to 15 minutes) that I will lead. I will then introduce
you.
- You will have about an hour for your
presentation, including questions and discussion.
PowerPoint presentation:
- An LCD projector and speakers are
available.
- I have a wireless device to advance the
slides.
- I have a laser pointer for your
use.
- Access to the Internet is available
through my laptop.
- Email me your PowerPoint presentation the
day before you are scheduled to talk so I can load it on my laptop. (Having
your presentation pre-loaded on my laptop assures that the slides will display
properly and makes them available before class to any students with visual
impairments.)
Audience:
- The audience will Stanford engineering
students (mostly mechanical engineering) and individuals from the greater
Stanford community (typically 30 people).
- There may be several students who arrive
late or have to leave early due to other class committments.
Student interest:
- Learning about rehabilitation and
assistive technology,
- Obtaining information that can help them
pursue a successful assistive technology student project for this class,
and
- Understanding how their Stanford education
in engineering can be used to benefit people with disabilities.
- Please do not overwhelm the students with
technical details. One message to communicate is they can successfully pursue
an assistive technology project.
Handout material: Please provide me
with a soft copy of any handout material before your presentation if you would
like me to make copies of them.
Presentation content suggestions:
Please consider including the following items (if appropriate) in your
presentation:
- Introduce yourself, briefly provide some
career-oriented context: your educational and employment
backgrounds
- Who do you work for presently?
- What are you doing now?
- What kinds of projects are you working
on?
- Who do you work with - professionals in
what fields?
- What tools and design processes do you use
to succeed in your job?
- How are you funded?
- What are some unmet challenges in your
specific field of work?
- What is your perspective on your work and
your professional field as it relates to assistive technology and
rehabilitation?
- How does your work impact people with
disabilities or the fields of assistive technology and
rehabilitation?
- Provide at least one good example of your
work (hopefully it will include some mechanical engineering
components).
- Include comments on how you address
ethical issues such as safety and privacy and how you interact with people with
disabilities.
- Engage the audience with
questions.
- Bring items to display, demonstrate, and
pass around.
- Please keep your presentation short and
concise to allow for questions and discussion.
Class website:
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you again,
- Dave Jaffe
- 650/892-4464 cell
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