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Oral presentations in technical courses often focus on the design of a product or system, whether it is a set of plans for a building, a prototype robot, or an innovative computer circuit design. Of the various types of presentations assigned in technical courses, the design review is perhaps the most common. Other types of presentations include requests for funding and progress reports (see Chapter 29, pp. 251–252, for progress reports).
What Are the Technical Disciplines?
Technical disciplines include the range of engineering fields (mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil, aeronautical, nuclear, among others), computer science–oriented fields (computer hardware and software), and design-oriented fields (industrial design, architecture, graphic design).