Powerpoint Engineering
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Powerpoint engineering at its finest (from NASAWatch).
Powerpoint Engineering (also called Viewgraph Engineering) is a favorite activity of aerospace engineers at NASA. This activity involves the creation of Powerpoint slides rather than doing actual work. The greatest practitioners of this art form are able to produce mind-numbing charts that make absolutely no sense, but are nevertheless used to influence national space policy.
Key elements of Powerpoint engineering slides include:
- Crappy line drawings
- Hi-resolution graphics (usually obtained from Google image search)
- Acronyms that aren't explained
- All possible font sizes
- Matlab plots with unreadable axis labels
Powerpoint engineering has replaced actual engineering at most NASA centers.
Examples
- Human Exploration Framework Team Presentation
- Human Space Exploration Framework Summary
- Designing Human Exploration Missions
