Creative Cover Pages for Eng Technology?

Dorkman

I am taking a materials science course as part of my Mechanical Engineering Technology curriculum at a CC.

In said course, we were demanded to pass in a cover page with all assignements, however we were "encouraged to be original, not tacky or politically incorrect" in our presentation of our cover page.

Since this guy seems to get a lot of call backs from people in the industry asking for his best and brightest, I really want to stand out from the crowd. However I can't think of a legitimate way of making an original coverpage besides coming up with some sort of fake materials testing company letter head or something.

Any ideas?

zilo

Present it like some sort of shadowy government agency's reports- lots of blackouts, use of the word "redacted", red stamps with scary words like "CLASSIFIED" and "FOR EYES ONLY".

Boutros

Go for professional. Look at this, this is what a real materials report looks like:
http://www.brooks-alaska.com/victor/documents/3_10/32-1-01870%202009%20Final%20GeoDataReport.pdf

See that cover sheet, that's class. It says: "we spent your money well"

Maybe in the mechanical world they do fancy cover sheets, but in civil we tend to keep it simple.

MagicToaster

Dorkman wrote: »

Any ideas?

How extensive and dense is the content inside? If it's possible, I would totaly reformat the entire presentation to have a uniform look that uses a booklet format, not 8.5 x 11.

Boutros wrote: »

Go for professional. Look at this, this is what a real materials report looks like:
http://www.brooks-alaska.com/victor/documents/3_10/32-1-01870%202009%20Final%20GeoDataReport.pdf

See that cover sheet, that's class. It says: "we spent your money well"

Maybe in the mechanical world they do fancy cover sheets, but in civil we tend to keep it simple.

Wow, I really hate this sort of outlook in which design is seen as waste. Thinking about how to make it more approachable and less intimidating is not a waste of money and is not a sign of un-profesionalism.

Look at how well organized this Toyota report is. You don't have to be a professional designer to do things like this. All you need is to sit down and think about how to organize things

Dorkman

I don't think I want to keep to confined to "What would a mechanical engineer do in the workplace" type cover sheet. He specifically stated creative, so I want to do something that's like that. He has a pretty tangent filled class anywho, considering we are talking about the atomic structures of metals at one point, and then he tosses in talk about Katana's and Deadliest Warrior, then the Hunt for Red October. All in the same class.

How extensive and dense is the content inside? If it's possible, I would totaly reformat the entire presentation to have a uniform look that uses a booklet format, not 8.5 x 11.

Not very. It's an intro class so we just started talking about how metal atoms reform when solidifying. And the assignment itself is asking questions like "What is Tensile Strength".

I guess I am just stuck on making something eye catching or interesting without making it tacky.