All Department of Engineering courses

So what happens after your postdoc? If “another postdoc” gives you mixed feelings, come and hear how to segue from academia to a more industrial or commercial career. Cambridge Enterprise will talk about translational funding, to take your current research one more step towards being used in industry, and about different ways to get involved in a spin-out. CE inhabit the space between academia and industry, covering all aspects of commercialisation of university research. This talk will provide lunch and is free of charge.

An RDC session for first year PhD students (Division D)

This session will look at key design principles and useful resources for creating a visually appealing conference poster that will stand out from the crowd, engage your audience and tell your story. With real-life examples, you can learn what to do and what not to do when making your conference posters.

This conference is an opportunity for Division C students, researchers and staff to find out more about the research that is going on in the department. First year students will be presenting posters during lunch, which is provided, and second years will be giving presentations about their work. There will also be four external speakers including Richard Mullender, an ex-hostage negotiator, and Matt Clifford, CEO of Entrepreneur first. Transport to and from the engineering department has been arranged.

Head of Division, Robin Langley, will update Division C postdocs on divisional and departmental happenings over lunch, followed by the mentoring training, organised by the Engineering Postdoc Committee.

Division C Postdoc mentoring training, organised by the Engineering Postdoc Committee.

This session is designed to provide tools and resources to help you edit your own writing. Its aim is practical – to provide participants with concrete methods for improving the quality of their writing as they move from first drafts to finished, professional-level, work.

The methods can also be applied to the editing of other people’s writing – for example, that of co-authors.

Besides that, the session will introduce other editing resources and discuss when and how to work with professional editors.

An interactive workshop for developing your negotiation skills, designed and delivered by Richard Mullender, an ex hostage negotiator and Former Lead Trainer at the National Crisis & Hostage Negotiation Unit in Scotland Yard.

Students frequently ask for lecture materials and to be made available to them through Camtools or Moodle to help them prepare for lectures, solve problems or revise at a later stage. What are the copyright implications of this?

This one-hour session will take you through legitimate ways to upload course materials and provide a case study of the issues encountered by an administrator in the Department when sorting out an existing Camtools site. The session will focus particularly on how we can use images within lecture materials online and provide tips and tricks for ensuring that uploaded materials comply with copyright requirements.

We will show you how best to locate books and articles in print and online (include Librarysearch and Librarysearch+).

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A workshop for Engineering CDT and RDC students with a conference poster requirement as part of their course to bring along/show their draft conference poster designs and discuss them with peers and the Engineering library team.

Lent/Easter Terms 2021 TBC

A workshop for Engineering Undergraduate and Masters students to bring along/show their draft conference poster designs and discuss them with peers and the Engineering library team.

Lent/Easter Terms 2021 TBC

Theis course will provide a brief overview of what the library can provide for researchers in engineering, together with key information on how to access technical reports, theses, e-journals/e-books and how to making efficient and targeted use of databases. Start how you mean to go on - get to grips with exactly what is available and how you can best use it.

How and why do we share knowledge? How can you communicate your research? This session will introduce key concepts for sharing and communicating your research to different people using different formats. Topics include:

• Academic publishing and peer review
• Open Research
• Impact
• Communicating with different audiences
• Your online academic identity

This session will help students consider the potential ethical issues they may face in their own work, enabling them to carry out their work ethically and with research integrity. It will also help them prepare for the Department Ethical Review process.

An introduction to LaTeX's concepts and related learning material. Further information available at http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/talks/latexintro.html

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Tim Love, tl136@cam.ac.uk.

This one-hour session is aimed at students taking qualitative 3E modules who would like guidance on how to structure, write and present reports or essays in that context.

Explore strategies for structural and active reading and how to take notes effectively

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.

All slides and notes will be available on the RDC Information Skills Moodle site.

Understand why we reference, recognise what information makes up a refernece and learn how to incorporate references into your writing.

This interactive, in-person session aims to help you develop your literature review. Alongside learning how to find academic sources from the online course "Learning to Search" [link], in this session you will find out how to transform your sources into a coherent argument and cover:

• The key aims of a literature review
• Critical reading
• Note taking
• Reference managers
• Structuring your review
• Knowing when you can stop searching

Asynchronous online training for Engineering RDC students, provided by the Engineering Library. These modules form part of the Skills for the Informed Engineer Digital Badge programme, where students earn Digital Badges on completion of specific modules.

For more information on Digital Badges see: https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/information-skills

Training accessible on Moodle (Raven login required) https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=180422

This training covers:

Finding What You Need (Literature Searching) Completion of this module earns you the Information Seeking Digital Badge.

Managing Your Data Completion of this module earns you the Data Manager Digital Badge

Managing Your Online Profile Completion of this module earns you the Online Profile Digital Badge.

Publishing in Journals Completion of this module earns you the Article Publishing Digital Badge.

Completion of any three modules and their associated Digital Badges leads to the award of the Informed Engineer Digital Badge.

Training accessible on Moodle (Raven login required) https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=180422

Asynchronous online training for Engineering RDC students, provided by the Engineering Library. These modules form part of the Skills for the Informed Engineer Digital Badge programme, where students earn Digital Badges on completion of specific modules.

For more information on Digital Badges see: https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/information-skills

All training is accessible via Moodle (Raven Login required): https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=65132

This training covers:

Finding What You Need (Literature Searching) Completion of this module earns you the Information Seeking Digital Badge.

Managing Your Data Completion of this module earns you the Data Manager Digital Badge

Managing Your Online Profile Completion of this module earns you the Online Profile Digital Badge.

Publishing in Journals Completion of this module earns you the Article Publishing Digital Badge.

Completion of any three modules and their associated Digital Badges leads to the award of the Informed Engineer Digital Badge.

All training is accessible via Moodle (Raven login required). https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=65132

Asynchronous online training for Engineering Undergraduate and Masters students, provided by the Engineering Library. These modules form part of the Skills for the Informed Engineer Digital Badge programme, where students earn Digital Badges on completion of specific modules.

For more information on Digital Badges see: https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/information-skills

This training covers:

Finding What You Need (Literature Searching )

https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/literature-search

Managing Your Data

https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/managing-data

Academic Integrity

https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/academic-integrity

Designing Conference Posters

https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/conference-posters

Referencing

https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/engineering/referencing

Completion of any three modules and their associated Digital Badges leads to the award of the Informed Engineer Digital Badge.

More advanced LaTeX for longer documents. If you have a question about this talk, please contact Tim Love, tl136@cam.ac.uk.