Address: 20 Symonds St, B401 & 405, Level 3 Atrium
The 2024 P4P Display Day will take place on Thursday, 17 October from 8 am to 5 pm in the Level 3 Atrium between Buildings 401 and 405 (20 Symonds St, Auckland). You can find the floorplan of the area of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering in the P4P Display Day Booklet and below.
Display Day Preliminary Academic Programme
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Morning Tea, Registration, and Setting Up (e.g., laptops/tablets and prototypes that can fit on the table).
- Mech morning tea will be on Level 3 at Leech Space.
- We plan to set up the posters for you (7-8 am on the day). You have to bring only any devices that you may use to present extra materials (e.g., videos).
- During this time you can set up your prototypes on the tables that have been provided next to the poster boards.
- Only small and lightweight prototypes or research demos that can fit nicely on the tables are allowed.
- The tables used cannot support heavy loads. Please don’t place heavy prototypes on them and don’t sit on them.
- 9:00 am – 11:00 am: Internal Part of Display Day
- All students need to be by their posters.
- Academics will come to discuss your research.
- This part will not have a specific schedule. Check with your supervisors about their availability.
- 11:00 am – 12:00 pm: External Assessment (by industry judges) – Scheduled assessment (in parallel with lunch).
- Please note that this part will run partly in parallel with lunch (specific times will be provided).
- You will have 5 minutes per group (2.5 min per student) to pitch your work to the industry judges.
- After the 5 minutes of your brief presentation there will be 5 minutes of questions and answers (QA part).
- The QA part may last longer as the judges may interrupt your presentation. Be prepared for possible interruptions.
- Students that will be assessed in this slot will only lose 10-15 min of their lunch break.
- We will create a judging schedule for this external assessment and we will send another announcement on Monday or Tuesday.
- You need to be by your poster at least 10 minutes before the external assessment time.
- If there are any delays in the judging process you will have to wait until your judging group arrives and discusses your work with you.
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Lunch
- 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm: External Assessment (by industry judges) – Continuation of scheduled external assessment by industry judges.
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Break – Industry judges will shortlist the award candidate projects.
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: 2nd Round of External Assessment (award candidate groups only).
- At 3:55 pm, Angus Lynch will send an announcement on Canvas inviting the award candidate groups to be by their posters.
- Please be ready to check on Canvas as sometimes the announcements arrive 1-2 min late.
- 5:00 pm: End of the academic part of the Display Day.
P4P Dinner – Final Programme
The P4P Dinner will also take place on Thursday, 17 October from 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm (after the P4P Display Day). The industry judges and the technical and professional staff will also be invited. Here is the final programme:
- 5:30 pm: The P4P Dinner starts at the Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen (7 Sale Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland 1010).
- Welcome drinks and nibbles.
- Two drink vouchers will be provided per student (for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks).
- The event is fully sponsored by the department.
- 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm: Main Event (including stand-up dinner and drinks).
- 7:00 pm – 7:10 pm: Welcome Speech – Head of Department.
- 7:10 pm – 7:20 pm: Speech – Industry Representative.
- 7:20 pm – 7:40 pm: Industry Awards.
- 7:40 pm – 8:00 pm: Student Awards (You can vote for the student awards here: https://forms.gle/A9Pe4gYda4yZfey39Links to an external site.).
- 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Celebration & Networking.
- 10:00 pm: End of the event.
Floorplan
