Engineering Conferences - An Innovative Course for Master Students in Engineering
- A course called "Engineering Conferences" is presented that the authors have developed and installed as a mandatory part of the curriculum in Master programs for engineering students. The idea is to go beyond teaching the standards of academic writing and skills for working with scientific publications. By using a learner-centered approach, we get the students engaged in typical activities around an active attendance of a real conference. They write a paper complying with common academic standards, submit the paper and review submissions of their fellow students. Students also produce a poster and have to defend it in a poster session held publicly on campus. In this article, we present our rationale to develop the course and our results from the first semester teaching this course. This includes the presentation of useful resources for teaching and organizing scientific publishing as well as our reflected learning experience regarding the student's understanding of significance forA course called "Engineering Conferences" is presented that the authors have developed and installed as a mandatory part of the curriculum in Master programs for engineering students. The idea is to go beyond teaching the standards of academic writing and skills for working with scientific publications. By using a learner-centered approach, we get the students engaged in typical activities around an active attendance of a real conference. They write a paper complying with common academic standards, submit the paper and review submissions of their fellow students. Students also produce a poster and have to defend it in a poster session held publicly on campus. In this article, we present our rationale to develop the course and our results from the first semester teaching this course. This includes the presentation of useful resources for teaching and organizing scientific publishing as well as our reflected learning experience regarding the student's understanding of significance for scientific publishing.…
Author: | Matthias Neef, Thomas Zielke, Claudia Fussenecker |
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Fachbereich/Einrichtung: | Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Language of Publication: | English |
Place of publication: | Odense |
Creating Corporation: | Danish Network for Engineering Education (IUPN) |
Parent Title (English): | Exploring Teaching for Active Learning in Engineering Education |
Editor: | Danish Network for Engineering Education |
First Page: | 13 |
Last Page: | 24 |
ISBN: | 978-87-998898-1-5 |
Tag: | Engineering Conference |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
Licence (German): | keine Lizenz - nur Metadaten |
Release Date: | 2019/12/18 |