Department of Engineering's Training 2013-2014

This interactive and intensive one-day course, based on the programme developed by Vitae, is intended for PhD students in their first year. You will look at practical ways to increase your effectiveness and meet the challenges of your PhD. The programme covers:

• Looking at your PhD as a project
• Working with other people
• Managing your relationship with your supervisor

Is working with a company sponsor a new experience for you? Do you plan to spend time working at your sponsor's company/business premises during your PhD/research contract? Philip Guildford,the Department's Director of Research, will share some tips on working in a professional environment and creating a good relationship with your company sponsor. Highly recommended for PhD students or postdocs who have little or no prior experience of working in/with industry or business.

This interactive workshop given by staff from the Department's Library, will introduce students to practical data management such as file naming conventions, backing up files and maintaining data in institutional repositories, with an emphasis on participants sharing some strategies that have worked for them. Issues around Open Research and Open Data and managing online research identities (e.g. ORCID) will also be covered.

"The Part IIB project is a major feature of the Engineering Tripos. It is intended to be demanding, to test your skills to the uttermost and to give you opportunity to prove that you are of MEng standard."

One of the aims of the fourth year project is to enable you to learn how to search the literature efficiently for relevant information. This practical one-hour session will take you through the process of designing and conducting a literature search and includes tips on managing the information gathered during this phase of your project. We will focus particularly on the electronic resources available to you over the long vacation and on support provided by the Department of Engineering Library.

To get the most out of this session, please bring your own laptop.

"The Part IIB project is a major feature of the Engineering Tripos. It is intended to be demanding, to test your skills to the uttermost and to give you opportunity to prove that you are of MEng standard."

One of the aims of the fourth year project is to enable you to learn how to search the literature efficiently for relevant information. This practical one-hour session will take you through the process of designing and conducting a literature search and includes tips on managing the information gathered during this phase of your project. We will focus particularly on the electronic resources available to you over the long vacation and on support provided by the Department of Engineering Library.

To get the most out of this session, please bring your own laptop.

This lunchtime briefing will introduce issues relating to Open Access as they relate to doctoral researchers, including its significance for university research evaluations, the differences between Green and Gold Open Access, funder and publisher requirements, electronic deposit for PhD theses at the Department of Engineering and services that are available to you.