EES Skills Course
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About the skills course in the summer semester 2008:
The theme is planning and creativity in science. The main question to be discussed is: how to determine what kind of questions to try to answer with your research.
Activities:
- Talk to the 7 EES seminar speakers to ask them how they decided to work on the topic they work on. One of you will be responsible for writing a short report (half a page to a page).
- Interview an EES researcher about a specific paper (in pairs if you want) and find out how he/she came to the question that the paper tries to answer - and what steps were taken between the original idea and the publishing of the paper. You will give a short presentation about the history of the paper.
- Read a book about a great researcher and find out how they decided what field they would work in and how they dealt with problems and draw-backs. You have to make a poster about the book.
- You will plan a scientific project - but most probably this will be done during the excursion because I think the summer semester is too short to do all.
- EES students also have to make a poster about their IRT2.
Idea Flow Charts
- Listed below are the idea flow charts (by person) developed by each student of the skills class as well as its teacher Pleuni Pennings. The flow charts illustrate how each of us developed an idea for a project we worked on, starting from basic problems and questions and then how we narrowed these into testable questions.
