Preparation of Research Plan for Ph.D.’s
- Time
- Friday 13. April 2012 at 8:30 - 17:00
The objective of this 1-day PhD course is to provide a presentation on how to make a good study plan. A PhD study plan typically consists of the following sections:
(1) project summary
(2) scientific content of the PhD project, including background, state-of-the-art literature review, objectives, key methods, expected outcome, time schedule and milestone, outline and structure of the PhD thesis, publication strategy and tentative titles of papers
(3) collaboration agreement between supervisor and student
(4) plan for PhD courses
(5) plan for fulfillment of knowledge dissemination
(6) agreements on immaterial rights to patents
(7) plan for external collaboration
(8) financial budget for the project and reference list.
As a relatively new PhD student, it is hardly possible to give a full and clear description of what you will do and how you will do in the coming three years. You may only have some vague ideas about your project. This course will help you to settle these problems as quickly and as well as possible via an effective literature study. A literature study is not only a potted summary of who did what. You need to find their similarities/difference, point out their contributions and flaws in methodology or gaps in research, and outline what you can utilize and what you can improve in your project. A good literature study will make your ideas about your project clearer and clearer, based on which you can start to write up your study plan, with well-defined what to do, why to do and how to do.
We will also go around different data-bases to get the latest impact research in the field by using e.g.
Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.
Organizer: Professor Frede Blaabjerg, fbl@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University
Lecturer: Professor Frede Blaabjerg, fbl@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University
- Host
- Department of Energy Technology
- Address
- Pontoppidantræde 101, 9220 Aalborg East, room 23
- More information
- http://www.et.aau.dk/phd/phd-courses/
- Price
- 6000 DKK for PhD students outside of Denmark and 1500 DKK for PhD students in Denmark, who is not from AAU. 8000 DKK for the Industry.
