Department of Engineering course timetable

Aimed at 1st year PhD students this course is designed to get you thinking and working effectively on your end of first year report. How do you start? What’s expected? How do you make it work for you? These and many other important questions, hints and tips will be addressed in this session.

This one hour lecture, given by Philip Guildford, Director of Research, will provide you with the basics of what you need to know about intellectual property (copyright, patents, confidentiality agreements) in the context of University Research. A useful starting point, which could prevent you making costly mistakes in the future.

What are transferable skills, why are they important and how do you know which ones to develop? What opportunities are available to you for personal and professional development, whilst at Cambridge University? This session gives you an opportunity to formulate and discuss your plans.

This session, delivered by the Department's Library and Information Services, will focus on the literature search, helping you to develop a systematic search strategy and make best use of the print and electronic resources available to you. Please bring a laptop as you will have the opportunity to conduct some initial searching on platforms such as Web of Knowledge and Scopus and will learn how to keep up to date with current research throughout the course of their research project.

In this popular talk given by Prof. Tim Wilkinson, you will get all the essentials for understanding the full process of getting your papers published from submission to publication. Recommended for all graduates.

From what a technical report is, to how to write one, come along to this crash course and get your questions answered.

Please let us know of any burning issues and questions before the session on cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

This session, delivered by the Department's Library and Information Services, will focus on the literature search, helping you to develop a systematic search strategy and make best use of the print and electronic resources available to you. Please bring a laptop as you will have the opportunity to conduct some initial searching on platforms such as Web of Knowledge and Scopus and will learn how to keep up to date with current research throughout the course of their research project.

Open to all postgraduates and relevant particularly for all those PhD students in their first year who have not had this training as part of their RCC.

Why this course might make a difference:

This course is designed to equip participants with skills to finish their PhD successfully and move on to the next stage of their careers.

By the end of this course you will know:

• What are the PhD submission requirements and when the deadlines are
• How to be a (better) leader
• How to prepare and what to expect from your Viva
• How to do decide what to do next

Topics covered:

• PhD submission process
• Leadership: Skills and qualities of leaders
• Viva: What to expect and how to prepare
• Careers: How to do decide what to do, different career options

This presentation will give an overview of how to reference, why we have to reference (including how to avoid plagiarism), which styles you might like to choose, and introduce some handy software that can save you time and help you manage your references more easily.

Bring your lunch and any questions you already have!

This session will help students quickly and easily identify the information that will be of most value and relevance to their own research. It will also provide an introduction to referencing, reference management and avoiding plagiarism. By the end of the session, they will also have started to put together their own data management plan, addressing how they will organize, preserve and make their data available (or limit availability!) in accordance with funding requirements and ethical considerations.

Open to all postgraduates and relevant particularly for all those PhD students in their first year who have not had this training as part of their RCC.

What are transferable skills, why are they important and how do you know which ones to develop? What opportunities are available to you for personal and professional development, whilst at Cambridge University? This session gives you an opportunity to formulate and discuss your plans.

Do you want to increase the probability of completing your PhD on time and be happier doing it? In this workshop, Dr Sue Jackson will share and discuss these 'secrets' which the aim of allowing you to reflect on what you can easily do to help yourself achieve this aim. If you haven't already been to this workshop as part of your RCC, do come along.

Aimed at 1st year PhD students this course is designed to get you thinking and working effectively on your end of first year report. How do you start? What’s expected? How do you make it work for you? These and many other important questions, hints and tips will be addressed in this session.

This session will take students through the nuts and bolts of putting together journal articles and conference posters as well as managing their online profiles and tracking the impact of their research. It will give an overview of the peer review process and help students meet their funder Open access and research data requirements. This session deliberately excludes subject-specific advice such as which journal or conferences to choose, which is more appropriately provided by supervisors. It will however highlight resources such as Sherpa/Romeo and journal impact factors that provide information that may help reach these decisions.

Open to all postgraduates and relevant particularly for all those PhD students in their first year who have not had this training as part of their RCC.

What are transferable skills, why are they important and how do you know which ones to develop? What opportunities are available to you for personal and professional development, whilst at Cambridge University? This session gives you an opportunity to formulate and discuss your plans.

Postdoc mentoring training, organised by the Engineering Department Postdoc Committee (EDPC).

Aimed at 1st year PhD students this course is designed to get you thinking and working effectively on your end of first year report. How do you start? What’s expected? How do you make it work for you? These and many other important questions, hints and tips will be addressed in this session.

Postdoc mentoring training, organised by the Engineering Department Postdoc Committee (EDPC).

This workshop will cover the importance of graphic design, both in general and with reference to presentations and research posters for conferences and display.

From what a technical report is, to how to write one, come along to this crash course and get your questions answered.

Please let us know of any burning issues and questions before the session on cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

This presentation will give an overview of how to reference, why we have to reference (including how to avoid plagiarism), which styles you might like to choose, and introduce some handy software that can save you time and help you manage your references more easily.

Bring your lunch and any questions you already have!

What are transferable skills, why are they important and how do you know which ones to develop? What opportunities are available to you for personal and professional development, whilst at Cambridge University? This session gives you an opportunity to formulate and discuss your plans.

Presenting for the first time or want to improve on what you have done before? This session will take you through some tips and tricks to help you plan and deliver a session professionally and well.

Please come with questions.

This session will look at ways to plan your 4th year project, how and where to conduct a literature review, and include tips on how to manage the information you gather.

We will focus particularly on the electronic resources available to you over the long vacation and on support provided by the Department of Engineering Library.

To get the most out of this session, please bring your own laptop.

This session will look at ways to plan your 4th year project, how and where to conduct a literature review, and include tips on how to manage the information you gather.

We will focus particularly on the electronic resources available to you over the long vacation and on support provided by the Department of Engineering Library.

To get the most out of this session, please bring your own laptop.

This session will look at ways to plan your 4th year project, how and where to conduct a literature review, and include tips on how to manage the information you gather.

We will focus particularly on the electronic resources available to you over the long vacation and on support provided by the Department of Engineering Library.

To get the most out of this session, please bring your own laptop.

Why this course might make a difference:

This course is designed to equip participants with skills to finish their PhD successfully and move on to the next stage of their careers.

By the end of this course you will know:

• What are the PhD submission requirements and when the deadlines are
• How to be a (better) leader
• How to prepare and what to expect from your Viva
• How to do decide what to do next

Topics covered:

• PhD submission process
• Leadership: Skills and qualities of leaders
• Viva: What to expect and how to prepare
• Careers: How to do decide what to do, different career options

This session is for all those new to supervising in the Department of Engineering who took the supervisor training sessions we ran in the current academic year ( 2016-17). Come along and share your experiences of actually supervising. What did you struggle with? What did you find useful? Any tips that would be useful to share? Is there more the Department could provide to help you get started with supervising?

Dr Alexandre Kabla and Sue Jackson will be leading the session. Do come along, contribute and hear what everyone has to say.

Postdoc mentoring training, organised by the Engineering Department Postdoc Committee (EDPC).

Welcome to the Department of Engineering Library! We will give you a quick introduction to the print and electronic resources that are available to you in the different libraries in Cambridge. We will also give you an idea of some of the topics we can help with, from literature searching and referencing to Open Access and more.

Introduction to the support and resources available to Ultraprecision MRes and CDT students at Cambridge, including where to search, how to manage references and making sense of Cambridge libraries.

Welcome to the Department of Engineering Library! We will give you a quick introduction to the print and electronic resources that are available to you in the different libraries in Cambridge. We will also give you an idea of some of the topics we can help with, from literature searching and referencing to Open Access and more.

Welcome to the Department of Engineering Library! We will give you a quick introduction to the print and electronic resources that are available to you in the different libraries in Cambridge. We will also give you an idea of some of the topics we can help with, from literature searching and referencing to Open Access and more.

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Welcome to the Department of Engineering Library! We will give you a quick introduction to the print and electronic resources that are available to you in the different libraries in Cambridge. We will also give you an idea of some of the topics we can help with, from literature searching and referencing to Open Access and more.

This session will help prepare you to begin your first literature review for your PhD. You will learn how to search for sources in your discipline, how to save your references and how to stay up to date. The following topics will be covered:

• Literature searching
• Strategies for finding what you need
• Tools you can use
• Techniques to help you search
• Staying up to date with advances in your discipline
• Using a reference manager to keep track of what you find

If you are already comfortable with these, you might consider taking Information Skills 1B instead, which covers troubleshooting searches when you get stuck, knowing when to stop searching, notetaking and critical reading.

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

Welcome to the Department of Engineering Library! We will give you a quick introduction to the print and electronic resources that are available to you in the different libraries in Cambridge. We will also give you an idea of some of the topics we can help with, from literature searching and referencing to Open Access and more.

Welcome to the Department of Engineering Library! We will give you a quick introduction to the print and electronic resources that are available to you in the different libraries in Cambridge. We will also give you an idea of some of the topics we can help with, from literature searching and referencing to Open Access and more.

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This session will help prepare you to begin your first literature review for your PhD. You will learn how to search for sources in your discipline, how to save your references and how to stay up to date. The following topics will be covered:

• Literature searching
• Strategies for finding what you need
• Tools you can use
• Techniques to help you search
• Staying up to date with advances in your discipline
• Using a reference manager to keep track of what you find

If you are already comfortable with these, you might consider taking Information Skills 1B instead, which covers troubleshooting searches when you get stuck, knowing when to stop searching, notetaking and critical reading.

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

This session will help prepare you to begin your first literature review for your PhD. You will learn how to search for sources in your discipline, how to save your references and how to stay up to date. The following topics will be covered:

• Literature searching
• Strategies for finding what you need
• Tools you can use
• Techniques to help you search
• Staying up to date with advances in your discipline
• Using a reference manager to keep track of what you find

If you are already comfortable with these, you might consider taking Information Skills 1B instead, which covers troubleshooting searches when you get stuck, knowing when to stop searching, notetaking and critical reading.

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

This session will develop skills that will help you with your first literature review of your PhD. From a foundation of knowing how to search for academic sources, you will learn about what to do if your search isn’t working out well, when you can stop searching and how to quickly get information from the sources you find. The following topics will be covered:

• Troubleshooting your search
• Knowing when to stop searching
• Using a reference manager
• Note-taking techniques
• Critical reading

If you haven’t done a literature search before or would like a refresher, you might consider taking Information Skills 1A instead, which covers how to search for sources using academic databases.

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

A 40min discussion with Sue Jackson, to discover which researcher development activities would be best for you whilst at the University of Cambridge.

How do we build up knowledge in Engineering? What is your PhD contributing to? This session will introduce you to where your PhD fits in the context of academic publishing and wider society, considering academic integrity, peer review, open research and having an impact outside of academia. The following topics will be covered:

• Placing the First Year Report and PhD in the context of the academic landscape
• Ethics and integrity
• Academic publishing and peer review
• Metrics and Open Research
• Impact
• Communicating with different audiences
• Your online academic identity

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

Come along to a one to one session where we will talk you through the process of designing and performing a presentation of your work.

We will ask you to book a follow up session where you present something to us in a safe space using the tips and techniques discussed in the one to one and we will offer feedback.

These sessions are tailored to you and we will cover the issues that are most important to you. Come with all of your questions.

By the end of the sessions you will be more confidant on:

• Structuring your presentation clearly and sensibly
• How to design useful slides
• How to give a good performance

Please email any questions to cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

A 40min discussion with Sue Jackson, to discover which researcher development activities would be best for you whilst at the University of Cambridge.

This session will develop skills that will help you with your first literature review of your PhD. From a foundation of knowing how to search for academic sources, you will learn about what to do if your search isn’t working out well, when you can stop searching and how to quickly get information from the sources you find. The following topics will be covered:

• Troubleshooting your search
• Knowing when to stop searching
• Using a reference manager
• Note-taking techniques
• Critical reading

If you haven’t done a literature search before or would like a refresher, you might consider taking Information Skills 1A instead, which covers how to search for sources using academic databases.

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

Learn to identify the characteristics of a good report. From an accurate, concise and persuasive writing style to a well organised, well-presented layout and format.

This workshop will help you understand the purpose of a report, how to plan it and how best to structure it in terms of presentation and layout. It will also offer 'good advice' on what you should (and should not) do.

There will be a pre-course questionnaire and you will find it helpful to bring along a previously written report Please email any questions to cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

How do we build up knowledge in Engineering? What is your PhD contributing to? This session will introduce you to where your PhD fits in the context of academic publishing and wider society, considering academic integrity, peer review, open research and having an impact outside of academia. The following topics will be covered:

• Placing the First Year Report and PhD in the context of the academic landscape
• Ethics and integrity
• Academic publishing and peer review
• Metrics and Open Research
• Impact
• Communicating with different audiences
• Your online academic identity

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

A 40min discussion with Sue Jackson, to discover which researcher development activities would be best for you whilst at the University of Cambridge.

Intimidated by Open Access publishing? Frightened by funder requirements? Reticent about REF eligibility? It’s okay, we’ll take you through what you need to know to make sure your research counts toward the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

Best suited for: Engineering researchers who have recently submitted articles, or plan to do so in the near future.

A 40min discussion with Sue Jackson, to discover which researcher development activities would be best for you whilst at the University of Cambridge.

Come along to a one to one session where we will talk you through the process of designing and performing a presentation of your work.

We will ask you to book a follow up session where you present something to us in a safe space using the tips and techniques discussed in the one to one and we will offer feedback.

These sessions are tailored to you and we will cover the issues that are most important to you. Come with all of your questions.

By the end of the sessions you will be more confidant on:

• Structuring your presentation clearly and sensibly
• How to design useful slides
• How to give a good performance

Please email any questions to cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

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Come along to a one to one session where we will talk you through the process of designing and performing a presentation of your work.

We will ask you to book a follow up session where you present something to us in a safe space using the tips and techniques discussed in the one to one and we will offer feedback.

These sessions are tailored to you and we will cover the issues that are most important to you. Come with all of your questions.

By the end of the sessions you will be more confidant on:

• Structuring your presentation clearly and sensibly
• How to design useful slides
• How to give a good performance

Please email any questions to cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

How do we build up knowledge in Engineering? What is your PhD contributing to? This session will introduce you to where your PhD fits in the context of academic publishing and wider society, considering academic integrity, peer review, open research and having an impact outside of academia. The following topics will be covered:

• Placing the First Year Report and PhD in the context of the academic landscape
• Ethics and integrity
• Academic publishing and peer review
• Metrics and Open Research
• Impact
• Communicating with different audiences
• Your online academic identity

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

How do we build up knowledge in Engineering? What is your PhD contributing to? This session will introduce you to where your PhD fits in the context of academic publishing and wider society, considering academic integrity, peer review, open research and having an impact outside of academia. The following topics will be covered:

• Placing the First Year Report and PhD in the context of the academic landscape
• Ethics and integrity
• Academic publishing and peer review
• Metrics and Open Research
• Impact
• Communicating with different audiences
• Your online academic identity

Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. A handout for the session is available on Moodle if you would like to bring it with you, but it is not necessary.

In this session, you will be introduced to the Pecha Kucha style of presenting, which has proved highly successful for PhD students talking about their research to a wider audience. If you are prepared to take up the challenge, you can then sign up for an individual training session. There will be opportunities to present, using this technique at the Science Festival next March on the 17th or 24th.