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

Lectures:

• • Nailing your Thesis (VUE)
    (Vorlesung mit Übung, 4 SWS, Dirk Riehle, Mon, 10:00 - 13:00, Raum n.V.; Livestream)

Inhalt:

This course teaches students how to perform scientific research for their final thesis or a research paper. 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

• Theory building research

• Theory validation research

• Writing a research thesis/paper

• The scientific community

Students can choose one or both of two components:

• VUE (lecture + exercise), 4 SWS, 5 ECTS. VUE combines lectures with homework and exercises. VUE is run as a 3h block.

• PROJ (small research project), 2 SWS, 5 ECTS. In PROJ, students perform a small research project, either individually or in teams. The available projects will be presented at the beginning of the course. Students perform the research, write a paper, and hold a presentation about their work.

Schedule and sign-up are available at https://oss.cs.fau.de/oss-nyt-course. Please sign up for the course on StudOn (available through previous link) as soon as possible.

Lernziele und Kompetenzen:

• Understand how to perform research

• Understand how to write a research thesis

Literatur:

See https://oss.cs.fau.de/oss-nyt-course

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

1. Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Bachelor of Science)
   (Po-Vers. 2010 | TechFak | Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Bachelor of Science) | Gesamtkonto | Seminar Informatik für CE | Nailing your Thesis (VUE 5-ECTS))

Studien-/Prüfungsleistungen:

Nailing your Thesis (VUE 5-ECTS) (Prüfungsnummer: 480491)

(englischer Titel: Nailing your Thesis (VUE 5-ECTS))

(diese Prüfung gilt nur im Kontext der Studienfächer/Vertiefungsrichtungen [1], [2], [3], [5], [7], [10], [12], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26])

Prüfungsleistung, mehrteilige Prüfung, benotet, 5.0 ECTS

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

weitere Erläuterungen:

• Class quizzes: 10% (Every week except first week. Each quiz takes 10 min.)

• Homework assignments: 40% (Every week except first week)

• Oral exam: 50% (Once, 30 min. Can be dropped, if you and we agree)

Erstablegung: WS 2020/2021

1. Prüfer:

Dirk Riehle

Nailing your Thesis (VUE 5-ECTS) (Prüfungsnummer: 304439)

(englischer Titel: Nailing your Thesis (VUE 5-ECTS))

(diese Prüfung gilt nur im Kontext der Studienfächer/Vertiefungsrichtungen [4], [6], [8], [9], [11], [13])

Prüfungsleistung, Seminarleistung, benotet

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

weitere Erläuterungen:

• Class quizzes: 10% (Every week except first week. Each quiz takes 10 min.)

• Homework assignments: 40% (Every week except first week)

• Oral exam: 50% (Once, 30 min. Can be dropped, if you and we agree)

Erstablegung: WS 2020/2021

1. Prüfer:

Dirk Riehle