Professional and Research Skills in Technology

SCI 8014SEF

Course Guide

SCI 8014SEF

Course Guide

Professional and Research Skills in Technology

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Course Coordinator:

Dr Li Yaohan Yolanda, BEng (Hons) UNNC, MSc UCL, PhD PolyU

Lectures will be scheduled on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

SCI 8014SEF is a course designed by the School of Science and Technology for the Postgraduate programme.

Aims

This course aims to train students' skills on information collection and publication regarding the above-mentioned disciplines, and enhance students' troubleshooting skills for technology laboratory in practice.

Contents

The course covers the following topics:

Scientific information (information sources, data bases, skills for information and bibliographic retrieval, literature review)
Troubleshooting (common problems, basic procedure and essential principles, case studies)
Scientific publication (characteristic features, quality criteria, structure and preparation, skill of draft)

Assessment

The continuous assessment (40%) is composed of two assignments. There will be no written examination in this course. The final examination (60%) will be taken in the form of project report.

Assignment 1: Each student is required to perform the scientific information collection and an analysis of bibliographic retrieval on his/her laboratory practice topic in SCI 8012SEF. The format of this assignment is a report.

Assignment 2: Each group is required to submit a work outlook (pathways to impact) on their laboratory practice topic in SCI 8012SEF.

Final examination (Project report): Each student is required to submit a detailed project report after the end of this course. Students are expected to provide mini-review on their laboratory practice topic in SCI 8012SEF.

Set book(s)

There are no set books for this course. The following publications will be the main references of study:

Hart, C. (2018). Doing a literature review: Releasing the research imagination. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Mann, T. (2015). The Oxford guide to library research (4th ed.). Oxford University Press.
Blummer, B., & Kenton, J. M. (2014). Improving student information search: A metacognitive approach (Chandos Information Professional). Chandos Publishing.
Mukherjee, S. P. (2019). A guide to research methodology: An overview of research problems, tasks and methods. CRC Press.
Englander, K. (2013). Writing and publishing science research papers in English: A global perspective. Springer.