Coursework: Poster Presentation

This coursework involves creation of an academic poster from data sets you have encountered
already in the course, and one related to your MSc project. For a related part II of this coursework
you will make a short video presentation of your poster, explaining the methods used (more details
of this to follow, submission by the 24th April, 5%). For this part of the coursework, the poster will be
judged solely on content.

The poster will incorporate two data sets that you have already worked on, and one new data set
that you should obtain from your MSc research project supervisor. This data should ideally be close
to the type of data you will work on in your research project, and choosing a data set that is
extensive or complex will gain top marks if presented clearly. A very simplistic line graph is unlikely
to be able to showcase your data processing and presentations skills to the full extent.

The poster will also have to include aspects common to all good academic posters, including text
describing what is shown in the figures and captions on each figure. A good guide to making an
academic poster can be found here from UCL:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/sites/isd/files/migrated-files/
A_Guide_to_Sucessful_Poster_Production_2015_v1.pdf

And also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2049080116301303

And, from Liverpool University:

The data sets you should use are:

1. Fuel cell polarisation curves with power on a secondary axis and inset of average polar curve
(from part 1 of the Origin workshop assessment). You do not need to reprocess this graph
from the Origin coursework, however you may take this opportunity to improve upon your
previous graph based on your feedback from this assessment
2. The 3D acoustic data set (part 2 of the Matlab workshop assessment) Again, you do not need
to reprocess this graph from the Origin coursework, however you may take this opportunity
to improve upon your previous graph based on your feedback from this assessment
3. A new data set, based on your MSc project. For this data set you should process and plot it
anyway you choose. You have had workshops on Origin, MatLab and Python, and so you
should choose the best method here, depending on your data set. You will also need to
select sensible plot types, colour schemes, scales, axes lengths etc in order to best represent
the data.

Each figure should have a detailed caption beneath it that fully describes the data plotted in the
graph, including any experimental conditions that are relevant. Experimental conditions for the fuel
cell data (1) are given below, and any relevant conditions for the 3D acoustic data set (2) should be
obtained from the respective paper which is linked below. You should include experimental
conditions or modelling parameters for the new data set (3) based on either information you’re your
supervisor or from a publication, if that data has been previously published. If this data has been
published, the paper must be referenced in the caption and or the accompanying text. Try to vary
the presentation of this data and make it different to what has been published previously (and
improve on it!). Refer back to the lecture notes on what makes a good caption, and look at literature
examples.
Finally, each figure should be accompanied by 200 – 400 words that describe the plots, including any
trends seen in the data. This paragraph should include sensible scientific description of the data
which you can get from previous knowledge from other courses or the resources uploaded here.
Specifically:

 For the fuel cells figure, include a brief description of what a polarisation curve represents
for a fuel cell, and how it is obtained. You can find this information from the review papers
listed below, or with your own literature search. The experimental conditions for this fuel
cell data are as follows: Cell temperature 80 °C, Cathode Temperature 80 °C, anode
temperature 75 °C, current scanned from 0 – 20 A in steps of 1 A with 30 s of equilibration at
each point before the voltage is recorded. The anode and cathode gases are each humidified
to 85% relative humidity and at 1.5 times stoichiometry flow rates. The fuel cell is a single
MEA of 10.3 cm2. The average cell impedance recorded was 80 mOhm cm2.
 For the acoustics figure, you should outline how acoustic measurements can be used for
batteries and how they are conducted, which you can get from the slides given in the Matlab
workshop, as well as taking any further info including experimental details from the
published paper (Robinson et al) from which this data comes:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378775319313114
 For the new data set, you should include a brief description of the topic you will be studying
for your MSc research project, and the relevance of the data you are showing here to the
research you will be doing. This is the most important of the three sections of text, and
should be towards the upper end of the word limit (note: you might want to adjust the
relative size of the boxes of the template to allow for this – do not leave blank space!)
 You must describe this data in your own words, and not copy and paste from a publication.
 In this section, as well as describing the data, you should include a brief description of why
you chose your particular settings for the plot, and how you achieved the plot (did you use
origin, matlab or python, and what type of plot did you choose, and why).

Other aspects of a poster that should be included in yours:

 Title: Usually this will be based on your research – for the purposes of this coursework, you
can use the title of your MSc research project, appended with ‘Data Processing and
Presentation’
 Authors: often a scientific poster would have many authors, representing everyone who did
a bit of work shown in the poster. The ‘main’ author, in this case you, should have an
asterisk after their name (*) and appear first in the list. Also include the names of the people
who supplied the data for this coursework. They are: Erik C. Engebretsen (1. fuel cells) and
James B. Robinson (2. acoustics). Include the name of your research supervisor (the UCL
academic, e.g, Paul R. Shearing) and the PhD student/PDRA who you will be conducting your
research with (if known at this time). You should also include me as the last author (Rhodri
Jervis)
 Affiliations: each author should have an affiliation indicated by a number next to their name
(often superscript).
o Your affiliation: MSc Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington
Place, London WC1E 7JE
o Erik’s affiliation: Bramble Energy, 6 Satellite Business Village, Crawley, RH10 9NE
 o James and Rhod’s affiliation: Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Chemical Engineering,
University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE
o Affiliation of Supervisors for data set 3 – ask your supervisor
 References: Anywhere in the written content where you have taken information from a
paper must include a reference, and a reference section in the poster will list these.

A template poster is provided, but you should choose your own colour scheme and layout options to
make it visually appealing. All that has to be kept from the template is the UCL banner – everything
else is up to you. UCL templates can be downloaded from here:
https://imagestore.ucl.ac.uk/imagestore/start/ucl-templates/Research%20Poster%20templates

You have also been given an example poster from Jen Hack to give you an idea of a good poster. You
should, however, produce a poster in your own style.

The poster should be A1 or A0 in size, can be portrait or landscape, saved as a PDF and uploaded via
turnitin by 9am on the 17th April