GSOE9400 – Engineering Postgraduate Research Essentials

Program

• Program Session 2 2009

Day 1

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Expectations
• 3. Managing
• 4. Impact & Citations
• 5. Supervision
• Steve Brodie – “Innovation and Commercialisation at UNSW”

Day 2

• How to formulate the topic
• Managing your time and progress
• What is Innovation?
• How to pass this course

Day 3

Information Literacy
Compulsory
Monday 14th Sept or Tuesday 15th Sept or Thursday 17th Sept or Friday 18th Sept
(10.00 am – 12.00 pm) or (2.00 pm – 4.00 pm)
Level 3, Library

Day 4

Being Your Own Project Manager
Monday 30th November
10.00 – 1.00 pm
Engineering Design Studio
5th Floor, Mechanical Engineering Building

Day 5

Establishing the background – Thinking and Writing the Literature Review
Tuesday 1st December
10.00 – 1.00 pm
Engineering Design Studio
5th Floor, Mechanical Engineering Building

Day 6

Establishing the niche for your research
Mini presentations
Wednesday 2nd December
10.00 – 1.00 pm
Engineering Design Studio
5th Floor, Mechanical Engineering Building

Day 7

Research Methods – The truth is where?
Monday 22nd February 2010
½ day TBA
Room TBC

Day 8

Communicating clearly: Designing effective PowerPoint slides
Mini presentations
Wednesday 24th February 2010
½ day TBA
Room TBC

Day 9

Velcro in your writing – abstracts, introductions, conclusions, cohesion
Friday 26th February 2010
½ day TBA
Room TBC

Day 10

Presentations – Course evaluation
Compulsory
April 26th – 30th 2010
5 days (attend 1 day minimum)
(9.00 am – 2.00 pm)
Room TBC

Assessments

For semester 2, 2009 the due dates for assessments are:

1. Monday 16th November - Annotated Bibliography
2. Monday 1st February - Literature Review
3. Monday 12th April - Research Proposal Report

Assessments to be submitted electronically to Pam Mort - p.mort@unsw.edu.au

GSOE9400 Student Supervisor Agreement [PDF]

GSOE9400 Submission Cover Sheet [PDF]