Hi YakYak.
May I be the first to comment on the immaturity of the last posts. They really werent necessary and of no help to you.
Anyway, as it happens I am studying ATPL groundschool theory with a company called Bristol Groundschool, you may of heard of them. By coincidence I am reading about instrumentation, and the last of the chapters concentrate on the use of computers in the modern cockpit. I suggest you contact Bristol Groundschool
www.bristol.gs and ask very nicely if they will let you have some of their notes. They might not let you but you have nothing to loose. Your best contact would be a guy called Alex Whittingham. Almost every wannabe on pprune knows of him.
For further information on flight deck equipment you could look at
www.boeing.com or
www.airbus.com
Other sources include the civil aviation authority. Their website is excellent and you can download literally hundreds of official documents (for free!)
www.caa.co.uk
Also try the National Air Traffic Services
www.nats.co.uk for ATC issues.
Some advice from someone that’s been there (I'm a computer science grad 2ys) I wouldn’t bog it down with technical detail. People "get off" on presentations that spout theoretical bull****, this is especially important if your going to be graded on it.
45mins is not really a long time, give it a solid beginning, middle and end and don’t cram it with detail. Inject some humour by dragging some old jokes and anecdotes from
www.aviationhumour.co.uk.
Best of luck
Bodie