Department of Engineering course timetable

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.

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.

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

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.

For PhD students interested in presenting their research topics in the Department of Engineering's two Science Festival events this year which will be on the dates below:

Pecha Kucha Challenge March 17th Saturday, 12-2pm, main site. March 24th Saturday, 2-4.00pm, IfM.

In this event, postgraduate students enrolled for a PhD in Engineering will take on the challenge of sharing their research with a science festival audience in just 6min 40 sec, using the Pecha Kucha technique which involves presenting using 20 slides, each showing for just 20 sec.

Participants on previous events commented:

"Speaking dynamically during 6m40s is a great experience. Translating complex concepts to a general public helped me to access my research through a more tangible perspective. I definitely learnt a lot during this project."

"The exercise of communicating my research to a non-technical audience was a very useful one to undergo. It forced me to think differently about my research, and that experience has helped me to do a better job of presenting in a technical setting as well."

This session will help you understand the ethics and practicalities of managing information and data throughout PhDs and research projects. Whether you are creating your own data through experimental research or reusing data from other sources, we'll tell you what you should think about in order to manage, use and share data responsibly.

Please bring a laptop or web enabled device with you to the session. All slides and notes will be available on the RDC Information Skills Moodle site.

This session, given by the Library's Information Service, will help prepare you to begin your literature search. 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

Please bring a laptop or web enabled device with you to the session.

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

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

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.

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

This workshop will help you understand the purpose of referencing and how to do it easily. By the end of the hour you will be able to:

• Understand why we reference
• Recognise what information makes up a reference
• Know how to incorporate references into your work
• Know about difference referencing styles

This is a beginner's class but can be used to refresh your memory on basic referencing.

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

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

If you are thinking of applying for a career development fellowship – one that pays your salary, as well as supporting costs to set up your own research group – then don’t miss this event.

The Department’s Director of Research, Philip Guildford, will give his tips and advice for potential applicants, followed by a number of current fellowship holders (including EPSRC, RAEng, Leverhulme, Marie Curie), who will share their own experiences.

Topics include how to apply for, manage and use fellowships, how to be successful and top tips. Lunch will be provided.

This event is organised by the Engineering Department Postdoc Committee (http://edpc.eng.cam.ac.uk/) and is open to all postdocs and any PhD students nearing completion and thinking about applying for such fellowships.

Please register to confirm your booking for catering purposes: the event will be limited to the first 50 that sign up.

This session, given by the Library's Information Service, will develop skills that will help you develop your literature search. 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

Please bring a laptop or web enabled device with you to the session.

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

Are you a first time author in Engineering? Learn about what's expected of you in terms of Open Access requirements, copyright agreements and having an impact.

Note: This session will focus primarily on what you need to do once your paper is accepted for publication, so for questions about where to publish and how to get published, you may be better off attending a different session.

This session will help you understand the ethics and practicalities of managing information and data throughout PhDs and research projects. Whether you are creating your own data through experimental research or reusing data from other sources, we'll tell you what you should think about in order to manage, use and share data responsibly.

Please bring a laptop or web enabled device with you to the session. All slides and notes will be available on the RDC Information Skills Moodle site.