Publish your undergraduate research! A mandatory course for master students in engineering
- Undergraduate students in engineering often have little exposure to the world of scientific publishing and the culture of sharing research work. While the beneficial exchange between research and teaching is well promoted, while the benefits of conference participation for students have already been surveyed and while courses on scientific writing are readily available, the concept of mini-conferences as part of the curriculum combines all three aspects into one. Therefore, the course "Engineering Conferences" was developed and installed as a mandatory part of a master program for engineering students. The idea is to go beyond simply teaching the standards of academic writing and skills for using scientific publications. By using a learner-centered approach, the students are engaged in typical activities around an active attendance of a real conference. Based on their bachelor thesis, they write a paper complying with common academic standards, submit the paper and review submissionsUndergraduate students in engineering often have little exposure to the world of scientific publishing and the culture of sharing research work. While the beneficial exchange between research and teaching is well promoted, while the benefits of conference participation for students have already been surveyed and while courses on scientific writing are readily available, the concept of mini-conferences as part of the curriculum combines all three aspects into one. Therefore, the course "Engineering Conferences" was developed and installed as a mandatory part of a master program for engineering students. The idea is to go beyond simply teaching the standards of academic writing and skills for using scientific publications. By using a learner-centered approach, the students are engaged in typical activities around an active attendance of a real conference. Based on their bachelor thesis, they write a paper complying with common academic standards, submit the paper and review submissions of their fellow students. They also produce a poster and defend their work in a poster session held publicly on campus. This contribution is based on the experience from the first four terms teaching the course. It explains the didactic rationale behind the concept and individual teaching modules, it comprises the collection of useful resources for teaching and organizing scientific publishing and it includes the consequences drawn from course evaluation results.…
Author: | Matthias Neef, Claudia Fussenecker, Jörg NiemannORCiD, Thomas Zielke |
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Fachbereich/Einrichtung: | Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Language of Publication: | English |
Publisher: | SEFI - Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs |
Place of publication: | Brussels |
Creating Corporation: | European Society for Engineering Education SEFI |
Contributing Corporation: | Europäische Gesellschaft für Ingenieurausbildung |
Parent Title (English): | Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship for engineering education excellence : proceedings of the 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Editor: | Robin Clark, Peter Munkebo Hussmann, Hannu-Matti Järvinen |
ISBN: | 978-2-87352-016-8 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
Licence (German): | keine Lizenz - nur Metadaten |
Release Date: | 2019/12/13 |