Preparation for the Dissertation
Objectives
The Preparation for dissertation allows students to apply the acquired skills, combining them in the development of work of scientific or technological nature. This unit is intended to carry out the preliminary work leading to the R&D work and preparation of an original thesis; This includes developing the capacity to perform bibliographic search and elaboration of a report on the state-of-the-art in area of the work to be developed. The student should then start developing the R&D work, both supervised by the advisor and in autonomy, applying appropriate research methodologies, and the ability to develop work with a significant degree of originality.
General characterization
Code
12703
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
João Pedro Abreu de Oliveira
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 10
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Bibliography to be used depends on the research topics and his mostly recommended by the supervisors on case-by-case basis
Teaching method
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Evaluation method
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Subject matter
In this unit each student must perform its R & D work in accordance with the objectives set out in the dissertation proposal, approved by MIEEC Scientific Committee. In general, the work performed by the students may be structured according to the following set of activities:
- Realization of the Bibliographic search
- Elaborate a report on the state-of the art
- Start developing the R&D work
In order to guaranty that all the students can achieve the proposed goals for this course, there are 4 hours of theoretical classes common to all the students, where relevant points will be presented and discussed:
Two hours weekly classes will be organized to present and discuss different subjects such as:
- Time management
- Supervisor/student relationship
- Scientific text editing
- Reference management software
- Scientific information search
- Scientific writing
- Tables and figures
- Plagiarism and intellectual property
- Typical dissertation structure
Individually, each student will have 2 hours of contact with his thesis supervisor where the elaboration of the state of the art and the planning of future work will take place.