Nailing your Thesis [5 ECTS] (OSS-NYT)5 ECTS
(englische Bezeichnung: Nailing your Thesis [5 ECTS])

Lehrveranstaltungen:

• • Nailing your Thesis
    (Vorlesung mit Übung, 4 SWS, Anwesenheitspflicht, Dirk Riehle, Di, 14:00 - 17:00, RZ 2.037)

Inhalt:

This course teaches students how to perform research work and how to publish the results. The goal is to prepare students for a Bachelor or Master research thesis.

The course covers the following topics:

• Science and society

• The research process

• Exploratory research

• Confirmatory research

• Writing a thesis/paper

• Scientific community
  

The course can be taken in two variants. The 5 ECTS version combines lectures with homework and exercises. This involves reading, writing, and evaluating research papers.

The 10 ECTS version adds a project to the 5 ECTS version. The project is provided either by an industry partner or by the professorship. It is either a qualitative or quantitative research question. Student teams will perform the research necessary to answer the question, write a (short) research paper about it, and make a final presentation.

The first session of the winter semester 2015/16 has been recorded and can be viewed here: http://wp.me/pDU66-27S; feel free to watch it to get an impression of the course.

In addition to the traditional classroom setting, the course may be offered online (through Adobe Connect at https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/dirkriehle).

Class is run as a 3h block. For the schedule see http://goo.gl/VqoFO. The schedule spreadsheet contains a link to the StudOn course section. To get a chance for a seat in the course, please sign-up on StudOn at least two weeks before classes start. We expect to inform you the week before whether you got a seat in the course or not.

Lernziele und Kompetenzen:

Students will learn

• how to perform research

• how to write a research thesis

Literatur:

The syllabus, schedule, literature, and more can be found at http://nythesis.com

Organisatorisches:

The syllabus, schedule, literature, and more can be found at http://nythesis.com. Please sign up for the course on StudOn (link accessible through schedule spreadsheet) as soon as possible.

Weitere Informationen:

Verwendbarkeit des Moduls / Einpassung in den Musterstudienplan:
Das Modul ist im Kontext der folgenden Studienfächer/Vertiefungsrichtungen verwendbar:

1. Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Master of Science): ab 1. Semester
   (Po-Vers. 2013 | TechFak | Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Master of Science) | Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik | Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik)
2. Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer))
   (Po-Vers. 2010 | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer)) | Seminar | Seminar)
3. Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer))
   (Po-Vers. 2010 | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer)) | Vertiefung Informatik I und II | Vertiefungsmodul Software Engineering)
4. Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer))
   (Po-Vers. 2013 | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer)) | Seminar | Seminar)
5. Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer))
   (Po-Vers. 2013 | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Arts (2 Fächer)) | Vertiefung Informatik I und II | Vertiefungsmodul Software Engineering)
6. Informatik (Bachelor of Science)
   (Po-Vers. 2007 | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Science) | Seminar)
7. Informatik (Bachelor of Science)
   (Po-Vers. 2009s | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Science) | Wahlpflichtbereich (5. und 6. Semester) | Wahlpflichtmodule | Vertiefungsmodul Software Engineering)
8. Informatik (Bachelor of Science): 3-5. Semester
   (Po-Vers. 2009s | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Science) | Seminare, Praktika, Bachelorarbeit | Seminar)
9. Informatik (Bachelor of Science)
   (Po-Vers. 2009w | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Science) | Wahlpflichtbereich (5. und 6. Semester) | Wahlpflichtmodule | Vertiefungsmodul Software Engineering)
10. Informatik (Bachelor of Science): 3-5. Semester
    (Po-Vers. 2009w | TechFak | Informatik (Bachelor of Science) | Seminare, Praktika, Bachelorarbeit | Seminar)
11. Informatik (Master of Science)
    (Po-Vers. 2010 | TechFak | Informatik (Master of Science) | Wahlpflichtbereich | Säule der softwareorientierten Vertiefungsrichtungen | Vertiefungsmodul Software Engineering)
12. International Information Systems (IIS) (Master of Science)
    (Po-Vers. 2014w | Zusatzmodule | Zusatzmodule IIS | Research Seminar NCC 1701)
13. International Information Systems (IIS) (Master of Science)
    (Po-Vers. 2014w | Informatics | Informatics Electives | Applied Software Engineering II)
14. International Information Systems (IIS) (Master of Science)
    (Po-Vers. 2014w | Seminars | Research Seminar NCC 1701)
15. Mathematik (Bachelor of Science)
    (Po-Vers. 2015w | NatFak | Mathematik (Bachelor of Science) | Module des Nebenfachs | Nebenfach Informatik | Vertiefungsmodule | Vertiefungsmodul Software Engineering)

Studien-/Prüfungsleistungen:

Nailing your Thesis (Prüfungsnummer: 530025)

(englischer Titel: Nailing your Thesis)

(diese Prüfung gilt nur im Kontext der Studienfächer/Vertiefungsrichtungen [1], [3], [5], [7], [9], [11], [13], [15])

Prüfungsleistung, mehrteilige Prüfung, benotet

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

weitere Erläuterungen:
Student work comprises

• class participation

• course homework

• research paper
  

depending on whether the 5 or 10 ECTS variant was chosen.

Grades are based on linearly combining the individual grades from class participation, student presentations, and the semester research paper as weighted by the amount of work (ECTS) needed for it.

Prüfungssprache: Englisch

Erstablegung: WS 2016/2017

1. Prüfer:

Dirk Riehle

Seminar - Nailing your Thesis (Prüfungsnummer: 648971)

(englischer Titel: Seminar - Nailing your Thesis)

(diese Prüfung gilt nur im Kontext der Studienfächer/Vertiefungsrichtungen [2], [4], [6], [8], [10], [12], [14])

Prüfungsleistung, Seminarleistung, benotet

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

weitere Erläuterungen:
Student work comprises

• class participation

• course homework

• research paper
  

depending on whether the 5 or 10 ECTS variant was chosen.

Grades are based on linearly combining the individual grades from class participation, student presentations, and the semester research paper as weighted by the amount of work (ECTS) needed for it.

Erstablegung: WS 2016/2017

1. Prüfer:

Dirk Riehle